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Chinese in the New Zealand Curriculum

Level 2: Achievement objectives

Definitions
  • Communication functions illustrate the communicative competence students should have at level 2.
  • Language level indicators illustrate the linguistic competence students should show while performing the communication functions.
Communication functions Examples
Students should be able to: 
  • ask about and respond to personal information about themselves and others
Nǐ shì nǎ guó rén?
我是哪兰兰。
  • use numbers 0–100
Tā qīshíbā suì.
他七十八岁。
  • recognise, express, and enquire about the relationships between people and the ownership of things
Wǒ yǒu liǎng ge mèimei.
我有两个妹妹。
  • identify places and things
Zhè shì wǒ de jiā.
这是我的家。
  • state the location of people and things
Wáng lǎoshī zài nǎr?
王老师在哪儿？
  • use time, days of the week, months, and years
Jīntiān shì xīngqī yī.
今天是星期一。
  • give simple descriptions of the weather.
Jīntiān tiānqì hěn hǎo.
今天天气很好。

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Language level indicators

In personal and familiar contexts, students should be able to do the following.

Listening
  • Understand and respond appropriately to phrases and simple information
  • Get the gist of simple dialogue and information
  • Recognise and understand key words or phrases in simple dialogue and information.
Speaking
  • Speak simple words and phrases with increasingly accurate tones, pronunciation, and intonation
  • Initiate and respond in brief conversations using learned words and phrases.
Reading
  • Get the gist of simple dialogue and information
  • Recognise and understand key words and phrases in simple texts
  • Recognise up to 75 Chinese characters.
Writing
  • Write simple phrases and sentences
  • Write simple words and phrases from memory
  • Write up to 50 simple Chinese characters with correct stroke order.

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