The Personal World
Self, family, friends, school and leisure: the language a beginner needs to talk about their own life.
- Greetings and Introductions
- Self and Family
- Numbers, Dates and Time
NSW Chinese Beginners Stage 6 structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Chinese Beginners” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Self, family, friends, school and leisure: the language a beginner needs to talk about their own life.
Everyday life in Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, the Chinese-Australian community, and the language needed to participate in it politely.
The four macroskills at beginner level, and the text types the course requires students to produce.
A Chinese Beginners paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| compare | Short answer | 3–5 |
| complete | Fill in the blank | 2–4 |
| describe | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| explain | Short answer | 2–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| respond | Short answer | 3–5 |
| summarise | Short answer | 2–4 |
| transform | Short answer | 2–4 |
| write | Extended response | 8–10 |
| write | Short answer | 3–5 |
HSC Chinese Beginners - Written Paper Shape — 100 marks, 150 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.