AIS Project hanyu Stage 6 Writing Skills 22 July 2015

HSC – CC, Ext, HC & BS courses Presenter: Faraday Pang (Assistant head of Languages PLC, Sydney)

Writing Skills for Stage 6 Outcomes of today’s session: I. Teaching writing strategies II. Differentiated writing tasks for Cont-Heritage-BS in the one class III. Teaching text types IV. Question, discussion or sharing time

I. Teaching writing strategies PLC Year 11 Chinese Continuers Preliminary Course Yearly Examination Preparation Text 1 大家好，我的名字叫白中明。我是在香港出生的，我三岁的时候和爸爸、妈妈，哥哥来澳大利亚。我来澳大利亚已经十四年了。爸爸每年都会带我们出国，上次我们去香港的时候是奶奶八十岁生日的时候。 .

I. Teaching writing strategies 我去过很多国家，美国、英国、马来西亚、日本，…可是我没有去过中国。爸爸要我先去中国学一年中文再回澳大利亚上大学。妈妈要我先上大学再去中国。我呢？我不想上大学也不想去中国，我想先学开车，再去找工作。 已经-already   1. Has the speaker been to Hong Kong? How do you know? (2)  2. Describe how different everyone’s expectation is towards the speaker’s future plan? (6)

CHINESE EXTENSION DISCUSSION TOPICS Please use at least 350 words for each topic.

HC Creating Texts – Writing skills analysis Answer the following questions. Write approximately 300 characters in CHINESE. (25 marks) Issue 1 sample question: “友情”重要还是“爱情”重要？为了参加学校的演讲比赛，写一篇演讲稿。 ‘Friendship’ and ‘Love’, which one is more important to you? Write the script of a speech to participate in your school’s public speaking competition.

II. Differentiated writing tasks for Cont-Heritage-BS in the one class

III. Teaching text types

IV. Question, discussion or sharing time

Useful websites: HSC writing booklet character list

HSC Extension Speaking/Writing Topics 2010 – 2014 Arabic Extension 2014 ‘The spirit of competition leads to the progress of society.’ What is your opinion? 同意： 不同意： ‘Those who do not adapt to change live in isolation.’ What is your opinion? ‘Young people today live in a society which is more tolerant than the society in which their parents grew up.’ Write an article in which you discuss this statement. The article is to be published in a magazine which is popular with retirees. ‘Our society has become so prosperous that people have forgotten human values.’ Write an article in which you discuss this statement. The article is to be published in a magazine which is popular with young people.

Useful websites: www.essentialchinese.info

Faraday Pang fpang@plc.nsw.edu.au 02-97045666 (PLC, Sydney, Languages)