4th December 2024, 17:00 - 20:00 at Witney Campus
Course code: LSAV004P
Subject area: Languages
Study level: Part Time
Course level: U
Course time:
17:30 - 19:30
Days of week:
Monday
Course date:
13th Jan 2025 - 24th Mar 2025
Course location:
Abingdon CampusYou will study in a fun, supportive learning environment with like-minded peers, continue your journey to understand and make yourself understood in a range of increasingly unpredictable everyday situations. The focus of this course will be on speaking and listening.
The course will include writing short paragraphs in Pinyin, developing some further skills in writing Chinese characters.
- Use Ba-sentence to request or order other people to do something for you;
- Describing two actions taking place at the same time;
- Use ‘zuo-you’ structure to indicate an approximate number or time or quantity.
- Study Pictophonetic characters.
If you are to gain maximum benefit and enjoyment from your language learning, it will be useful to spend some time working between sessions. There will usually be a small amount of homework set each week.
The course will equip students with more knowledge on radicals for better understanding of the Chinese characters, with grammar structures for steadier fluent conversation and for writing simple texts on learned topics.
We will also introduce some culture/traditions alongside the Chinese traditional festivals.
Please note due to half term there will be no teaching on 17th February 2025.
Abingdon and Witney College is subject to Ofsted regulation and is required to work with all its students to make sure they understand Government initiatives around Safeguarding, Prevent and Fundamental British Values. Information on these matters will be shared with you during your course.
You will also be asked to complete monitoring paperwork, which helps us to deliver course content to the highest quality.
Courses can fill fast, so please enrol early to avoid disappointment. Decisions on whether a course is to run are made two weeks prior to the start date - an email will be sent to you should there be changes to your course or if it is cancelled. Please check your inbox leading up to your course, including the junk folders. For anyone without an email account, our Admissions team will phone you instead.
For the first week of the course you will need to bring a valid form of identification; this includes passport, driving licence, debit/credit card, Birth Certificate or National Insurance card.
Please note - you should be 19 years old or over at 31st August 2024 prior to starting the course.
Courses offered by the college are fully or partly funded by the Government and the published fee takes account of this funding.
Before starting a course, the College is required to check you meet conditions relating to that funding, e.g. age, residency status within the UK/EEA, prior qualification level and employment status. In some circumstances (such as with online enrolments), these checks can only be completed after you have enrolled and paid.
If you are unable to pay in full for this course at the time of enrolment, and the course tuition fee is £300 or more, an instalment plan is available. If this is your preference, please do not enrol online but rather call the Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to enrol.
Once enrolled, Admissions will take the first instalment payment from you and pass on your details to the Finance team who will email you to set-up your payment plan. Please return a fully completed instalment plan to Finance as failure to do so could result in being withdrawn from your course.
The rules on fee reduction are complicated, we would encourage you to talk to our Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to discuss these options. You can find more information on our Fees and Bursaries page - search "Fees and Bursaries" at the top of the page.
19+ Fee:
Tuition Fee: £192.00
Exam Fee: £0.00
Books: £25.00
Total Cost: £217.00
19+ Reduced Fee:
Tuition Fee: £96.00
Exam Fee: £0.00
Books: £25.00
Total Cost: £121.00
- Digital tools – online quizzes & activities
- Tutor demonstration and repetition, classroom interactive activities - pair work and group work
- Independent learning: homework/digital learning
- Informal on going assessment via Q&A, digital online quizzes, and audio tools. Peer assessment.
As this is a non-accredited course, there is no formal qualification. To track your progress and achievement you will be required to complete a short document.