Self, family, friends, school and leisure: the language a beginner needs to talk about their own life.
These are the statements the Chinese Beginners syllabus makes about The Personal World. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Greeting, introducing yourself and asking someone's name, with the correct level of politeness for each situation.
Age, nationality, family members and describing people, including the classifiers or counters the language requires.
Counting, telling the time, days and dates, and the number system's irregularities that beginners trip on.
Subjects, timetable and daily routine, using present-tense verbs to describe habit rather than an event happening now.
Meals, ordering and preference, and the politeness formulas that make a request sound natural.
Sports, music and free time, and expressing like and dislike with degree rather than a bare yes or no.
Describing weather and what people wear, and the adjectives that change form with the noun.
Rooms, furniture and location words, and describing where something is rather than merely naming it.
Naming and describing animals, and the counters or classifiers that belong with them rather than with people.
Saying how you feel, asking after someone, and the formulaic phrases a beginner needs before they can build their own.
HSC Chinese Beginners - Written Paper Shape is 100 marks in 150 minutes. Questions on The Personal World are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Chinese Beginners uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
The Personal World opens the Chinese Beginners course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Chinese Beginners dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.