Usage Advice: Approximately 4 class hours
Level: Intermediate
College ,Adults
China Focus is a set of comprehensive Chinese teaching materials specially designed for the Chineseaudiovisual-speaking course. The video clips are extracted from contemporary Chinese social hot issues, feature programs, news, sitcoms, documentaries, talk shows, interviews, entertainment programs, films and TV plays, micro films, advertisements, songs, etc. Using abundant online video resources, it builds a natural-language-based classroom teaching environment, giving full play to the Chinese audiovisual-speaking course's function of being a window to thesociety, and promoting the integration of language learning and cultural understanding. This set of materials is divided into six levels, each of which is composed of several themes, encompassing society, economy, culture, education, life, love, and art. Several course modules are designed under each theme. The intermediate level (I) includes 10 volumes, each taking 4 class hours and covering the communication functions and scenes commonly used in the elementary level, intermediate level and advanced level. Teachers can develop a personalized assortment of teaching materials based on the themes they are interested in, which can either be independently used in an audiovisual-speaking course, or as exercise materials in a comprehensive class, speaking class, listening class and other classes.
The Classification of ChinaFocus
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Level
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Vocabulary
Learned
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Speed of Speaking (Characters/Minute)
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Average Sentence
Length
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Average Number of New Words/Hundred Words
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Chinese Proficiency (Referring to the Levels of HSK)
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Elementary (I)
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300
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160-180
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6
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5
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HSK Level 2
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Elementary (II)
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600
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180-200
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8
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6
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HSK Level 3
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Intermediate (I)
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1200
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200-230
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9
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7
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HSK Level 4
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Intermediate (II)
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2500
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220-250
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10
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7
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HSK Level 5
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Advanced (I)
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5000
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240-280
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11
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8
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HSK Level 6
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Advanced (II)
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5000+
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250-300
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12
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8
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HSK Level6+
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The Intermediate Level (I) includes Public Welfare, Dream, Hobbies, Occupations, Love, Family, Aspirations, Life, Campus, etc.
About the Author
Wang Tao, a teacher of Beijing International Studies University,is devoted to studying Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and focuses his research areas on Chinese language processing and computer-based studies. He participated in the design and development of Jinshan Typing software and assumed the chief responsibility of constructing the TCFL digital resources database of Beijing International Studies University and other scientific programs organized by MOE and Beijing City. He wrote a textbook entitled The Basic Computer-Based Chinese LanguageApplications for International Students and published a number of papers. Besides these, he won the champion in the 6th Contest of Young Teachers of Beijing International Studies University and got the first prize in the 2nd MultimediaEducation Software Contest of Beijing.
