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Beginners Course

• Topics
  • Family life, home and neighbourhood
  • People, places and communities
  • Education and work
  • Friends, recreation and pastimes
  • Holidays, travel and tourism
  • Future plans and aspirations
• Skills
  • Speaking
  • Listening
  • Reading
  • Writing
• How to approach the exam
  • The Oral Examination
  • The Written Examination

Continuers Course

• The Individual
  • Personal Identity
  • Education and Aspirations
  • Recreation and Leisure
  • Travel Experiences
• Chinese-Speaking Communities
  • History and Culture
  • Lifestyles
• The Changing World
  • Youth Issues
  • The World of Work
  • Tourism and Hospitality
• Skills
  • Speaking
  • Reading and Responding
  • Writing
  • Listening and Responding
• How to Approach the Exam
  • Advice

Extension Course

• Prescribed issues
  • Divisions in society
  • The individual's search for identity
  • Urban versus rural life
• Prescribed texts
• Activities
  • Speaking
  • Listening
  • Writing
  • Prescribed texts
    • Activities
    • HSC-style tasks
  • Related texts
    • Division in society
    • The individual's search for identity
    • Urban versus rural life
• Advice

Heritage Course

• Issues
  • Young people and their relationships
  • Traditions and values in a contemporary society
  • The changing nature of work
  • The individual as a global citizen
  • Chinese identity in the international context
• Skills
  • Oral interacting
  • Responding to texts
  • Creating texts
• Personal Investigation
• How to approach the exam
  • The Oral Examination
  • The Written Examination

Background Speakers Course

• The Individual and the Community
  • The role of the individual in today's society
  • Changing gender roles in today's society
  • The role of family and marriage in contemporary society
• Youth Culture
  • Pressures on young people today
  • The place of education in young people's lives
  • The impact on young people of changes in traditional social values
• Chinese Communities Overseas
  • Adapting to new cultures (education, leisure, lifestyle)
  • The maintenance of Chinese culture in non-Chinese cultural contexts
• Global Issues
  • Economic growth and its impact
  • Environmental issues
  • The impact of international influences on Chinese-speaking countries
• Skills
  • Speaking
  • Reading and Responding
  • Writing
  • Listening and Responding
• How to Approach the Exam
  • Advice