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Chinese as a Second Language (0523)
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Free Chinese as a Second Language (0523) study notes for Cambridge IGCSE students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Reading skills
Public notices, signs, timetables and advertisements
Selecting correct details from simple texts
Organising relevant information from a range of texts
Ideas, opinions and attitudes in texts
Implied meaning, writer's purpose and tone
Main points and themes in extended writing
Drawing conclusions and connecting related ideas
Functional writing
Emails and messages
Letters, notes and notices
Register, style and audience
Responding to a written stimulus
Accuracy: characters, punctuation and grammar
Extended writing
Planning a 250-300 character response
Paragraphing and linking devices
Expressing and justifying opinions
Describing experiences and events
Range of vocabulary and sentence patterns
Listening skills
Short spoken texts: announcements and messages
Gap-fill from a longer spoken text
Information correction
Discussions between two speakers: multiple-choice
Speaker intention, opinion and feeling
Speaking
Giving a short unscripted presentation
Conversation and developing a topic
Asking and responding to questions
Pronunciation, tone and fluency
Linking devices in speech
Showing a sense of audience
Topics: Area A Young people and education
A1 School and education
A2 Future career plans
A3 Friendship
A4 Peer pressure and conflict
Topics: Area B Society
B1 Generation gap
B2 Young people
B3 Healthy eating
B4 Sports and exercise
B5 Films and the media
B6 Hobbies
B7 New means of communication
B8 Social networking
B9 Learning technology
Topics: Area C The world
C1 Urban and rural life
C2 Travel
C3 Home town and surrounding areas
C4 Pollution
C5 Recycling
C6 Global warming
Topics: Area D Cultural diversity
D1 Festivals and celebrations
D2 Customs and traditions
D3 Culinary diversity
Language and structures
Word classes
Measure words and quantifiers
Aspect particles le, zhe and guo
Complements
The ba and bei constructions
Comparison and degree
Connectives and complex sentences
Punctuation and character accuracy
Exam skills
Paper 1 Exercises 1-3: reading technique
Paper 1 Exercise 4: functional writing technique
Paper 1 Exercise 5: extended writing technique
Paper 2: listening technique
Component 3: speaking test technique
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