I have created 12 sets of “listening, reading and speaking” exam practice for my students. 3 sets of each of the 4 themes.
There is a free sample set for you to download to see if you like the resource:
/teaching-resource/a-level-chinese-lrs-practice-sample-set-13048879
Notes for use:
Listening: the questions are similar to that of A level exam paper. In the folder, you will find tracked audio files and the untracked one. Please note that in some of the audio files, I have used to a voice changer so the voice may occasionally sound a little strange.
Reading: the text is much longer than the A level exam paper ones. I designed it that way because the text content itself serves as a modeled extended speaking answer.
Speaking: I have adapted IB questions for these as I personally think IB themes are better! But the structures of answer should serve as a guidance for A level themed questions as well. Delete or adapt as you like!
In this document, I have compiled all the essay questions of 《一只叫凤的鸽子》and 《请投我一票》from 2018AS to 2024 past papers.
I have also predicted 12 《一只叫凤的鸽子》essay questions and 15 《请投我一票》essay questions. Students and teachers can use them as practice.
In preparation for the paper 2 in the Pearson Edexcel A Level Chinese qualification, I have designed this book to guide students to
1. do close reading practice (vocab, grammar, literary detail)
2. analyse the story in depth, including: plot/character/theme/language analysis
In one file, the story text has Pinyin; in another, there isn’t.
The close-reading text used in this book is from The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing (2015). Thank you for the continuous support for Chinese teaching and learning.
曹文轩 (2014) . 一只叫凤的鸽子. Posted by the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing in 2015. Available at: https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/harvard/book-multiple-author (Accessed: 30 June 2022)
This resource contains top-mark tips summarised as A.C.T.I.O.N. Students can use this as a checklist, along with the marking criteria when practising essay writing.
A = Adjectives (use a range of adjectives in the writing to showcase the range of vocabulary. Also, adjectives tend to imply opinions, which is another requirement of essay writing)
C = Connectives and comparatives
T = Time frames
I = Intensifiers (adverbs that intensify the verbs and adjectives)
O = Opinions and justifications
N = Negatives
This resource is to be used alongside the “A Very Special Pigeon - Analysis Workbook” by Rebecca Lin, which could be found here: /teaching-resource/a-very-special-pigeon-analysis-workbook-12713114
The sample answers include:
Answers to all the pink “stop and check” boxes in the close-reading chapters
5 collaborative boardwork by my A level students (shared with students’ consent).
This resource is to be used alongside the “Please Vote for Me - Analysis Workbook” by Rebecca Lin, which could be found here:
/teaching-resource/please-vote-for-me-analysis-workbook-12728698
It includes all sample answers to all close watching scenes.
In preparation for the paper 2 in the Pearson Edexcel A Level Chinese qualification, I have designed this book to guide students and teachers to analyse the two designated chapters of “Memories of Peking” 《城南旧事》- 《惠安馆》、《爸爸的花儿落了》 - in depth, including: significant plots and quotes/character/theme/language analysis. There are essay practise questions as well.
Note that this resource does not contain the novel itself, only important extracts from the novel.
If you would like to see a sample first, you can find sample pages from throughout the booklet here: /teaching-resource/-13086552
In preparation for the paper 2 in the Pearson Edexcel A Level Chinese qualification, I have designed this book to guide students to
study the social and cultural background of this film
do close watching scene analysis
analyse the film in depth, including: character/theme/film technique analysis
Acknowledgement:
The video and images used in this booklet are from the DVD - “Please Vote for Me”. (2008).
Many aspects of the film analysis in this booklet are inspired by Pearson (2017) and Lee and Zhang (2018).
References
Lee, E. and Zhang, X. (2018). Chinese for Advanced Subsidiary Level. Hayes: Cypress Books, pp. 170. Pearson (2017). ‘Teaching PowerPoint “Please Vote For Me”’ [PowerPoint Presentation]. 9CN0: Edexcel A Level Chinese. Available at: https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/A Level/Chinese/2017/teaching-and-learning-materials/Please-Vote-for-Me.pptx. (Accessed: 27 July 2022) “Please Vote for Me”. (2008). [DVD]. Directed by Weijun Chen. China: Steps International.
This resource contains an editable PPT file of the learning journey of Mandarin Chinese from Year 7 to Year 13 in England, UK. The Year 12-13 are for the Edexcel A level course.
It marks the topic areas, subtopic content and assessment for these 7 year groups.
Consulted the German example designed by “nbeardsley” (source: tes.com/teaching-resource/mfl-german-road-map-learning-journey-12352733)
This resource can help GCSE Chinese learner to prepare for speaking. Teachers can use them in steps:
Step 1 - teach students to identify question words
Step 2 - students predict possible questions under different topics, e.g. music
Step 3 - use the created mindmap per topic to practise answering these questions with extended response.
This booklet contains activities that guide KS3 Mandarin Chinese learners in the China sections in the British Museum London as well as the answers to the activities
Specifically:
4 tasks for Room 1 - Enlightenment
10 tasks for Room 33 - China and South Asia
3 tasks for Room 33b - Chinese jade
5 tasks for Room 67 - Korea & Room 95 - Chinese ceramics
If you are interested in just the booklet but not the answers, go to my Tes shop and find a resource titled “KS3 British Museum China booklet”
This resource contains an editable Word file of 6 pages for each year group. Each page contains can-do statements for a half-term. Students can use them to review and reflect.
The content follows the Mandarin Excellence Programme, mostly aligning with Jinbu 1, Jinbu 2 and Edexcel GCSE Chapter 1-3.
QLA stands for Question-Level-Analysis.
This bundle pack contains 6 separate resources, each with 2 Excel files - one Higher tier file and one Foundation tier file - for each exam series, including 2019 specimen paper, 2019 exam paper, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. (You can find each exam series separately as well)
In each file, you can see these different tabs (see the preview screenshot):
Note to guide teachers to use the document.
Grade boundaries of your bespoke one, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2019 ones.
Overview - with RAG colour codes of each question of each paper
Listening - analysing key words to get the correct answers as well as the transcript
Reading - analysing key words to get the correct answers
Writing overview sheet and tabs of each writing question
Speaking - containing questions of the role play cards, photocards and a sheet for your bespoke General Conversation questions.
IBDP-Mandarin ab initio has a set of coursebooks called “Chu Fa 1” and “Chu Fa 2”.
In each book, there are 3 units. This resource contains listening taks for Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3. The tasks are designed to resemble those in the actual IBDP ab initio Mandarin exam.
In each pack, you can find:
the Listening tasks in Word and in PDF
the task transcripts in Word and in PDF
audio files for all the tasks: in slower-speed and in faster-speed
If you wish to have a look at what the resource may look like roughly, please check out the sample here: /teaching-resource/-13239526
I have designed a series of 20-subject cross-curricular materials with the Mandarin Chinese subject. We used them in the months leading up to the Chinese New Year and yielded good results.
Each material is just a simple 5-10 minute video with a 3R discussion (Retell, relate, reflect). Here is a free sample of music-Chinese material.
If you are interested, please see my resource titled “20-subject cross-curricular with Chinese”.
I have compiled the AQA past paper questions from 2011 to 2021 by themes. In the PPT files, you will find the exam questions, audio for each, transcript and mark scheme. Apologies if there were mistakes in the transcripts as the Pinyin I used was auto-generated.
(Please note that the current specification is from 2019).
This resource includes the four topics under Theme 2:
Theme 2 Topic 1 - 2.1: Home, town, region
Theme 2 Topic 2 - 2.2: Social issues
Theme 2 Topic 3 - 2.3: Global issues
Theme 2 Topic 4 - 2.4: Travel and tourism
There are questions with overlapping themes; in that case, I chose the main theme.
Due to copyright issues, I cannot charge this resource. But I did spend a lot of time compiling it, please do credit my labour work and use it sensibly, particularly be careful regarding mocks.