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Mandarin Chinese for High School and Middle School Grade 7 and Grade 8

Welcome to my Mandarin class. Each class will involve an in-depth exploration of character meaning, word phrases, reading comprehension, and analysis of longer text passages. Students also can select their own topics for discussion.
Mrs. Ann Mitsui
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4.8
Number of reviews:
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What's included

1 live meeting
25 mins in-class hours per week
Homework
1 hour per week. Student can finish their homework in class or at home

Class Experience

US Grade 9 - 12
Intermediate - Advanced Level
Hey there students!

🌟This is an ongoing class to help out those of you on your Mandarin learning journey. 

If you're curious about the topics I offer, here are a few examples from Mandarin 1 to Mandarin 3:

💡Topic for Mandarin 1 are: 
Greetings, numbers, number related expressions, segment of a day, family members, measure words, body parts, color, positions, animals, places, classes, hobbies and interest, sports, daily schedule, food and drinks. 
⇢ Week of (4/21): Topic: Introduction Pin Yin
⇢ Week of (4/28): Topic: Greeting vocabularies or Characters
⇢ Week of (5/5): Topic: Greeting more than one person
⇢ Week of (5/12): Topic: Greeting people you know

💡Topics for Mandarin 2 are:
School, summer activities, emotion and interest, travel, locations and directions, household items, shapes and colors, weather, seasons, clothing, accessories, locations, directions, place to work, professions, work responsibilities, hobbies, health related articles, internet, computer, community, personalities traits, volunteer works, environment issues, household chores, making request, offering to help.
⇢ Week of (4/21): Topic: Greetings and leave talking    page 4
⇢ Week of (4/28): Topic: Ask questions in a conversations    page 8
⇢ Week of (5/5): Topic: Tag questions in conversations      page 11
⇢ Week of (5/12): Topic: More ways to tell days of the week      page 14

💡Topic for Mandarin 3 are:
Geography, interrogative pronouns, describe itinerary using continuation of complex sentences, describe locations and give directions with reference spot, Kinship terms, subjects, sports, music, emotions, describe school workload, culture of price negotiation, online shopping, good habits and bad habits, stress and stress relief, conflicts and solutions, entertainment, wedding and custom, Chinese performing arts. 
⇢ Week of (4/21): Topic: Talk about travel
⇢ Week of (4/28): Topic: Visiting other people's home
⇢ Week of (5/5): Topic: Stress and stress relief
⇢ Week of (5/12): Topic: Conflicts with parents

💕If you have a specific time in mind that works best for you, please send me an email. 💕
💯After each lesson, students will receive important class notes for that day’s lesson. If you are interested in learning the language, please sign up for my class. If you want to learn AP Chinese, please sent me an email. 💯
Learning Goals
Upon completing the book in class, students will gain:
Mandarin 1 student's goals:
Student will learn at least 250 characters by the end of the course. 
Student can use their knowledge to ask and answer simple questions in Mandarin. 
Student will have the knowledge of basic Chinese sentence structure. 

Mandarin 2 student's goals:
students are expected to learn 750 characters.
Students are expected to know 35 sentence structure.
Students are able to translate the sentence we learned from Chinese to English.

Mandarin 3 student's goals:
students are expected to learn 1500 characters.
Students are expected to know sentence structure for essay writing.
Students are able to translate the paragraph we learned from Chinese to English.
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Note book and pen or pencil to take notes.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined April, 2024
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Language from San Francisco State University
I am currently a World Language Teacher at my local high school. 
I grew up in China with Chinese being my first language. Then I moved to the US I earned my B.A. in Chinese. During college, I participated in the Chinese-American essay contest on Chinese History and Culture and won the Honorable Mention. I also won 2nd place on the 31st Chinese Speech Contest. 

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Ages: 13-18

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