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Chinese (Spoken Mandarin or Cantonese) (1CN0)
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Free Chinese (Spoken Mandarin or Cantonese) (1CN0) study notes for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Theme 1: Identity and culture
Who am I?: relationships; when I was younger; what my friends and family are like; what makes a good friend
Who am I?: interests; socialising with friends and family; role models
Daily life: customs and everyday life; food and drink; shopping
Daily life: social media and technology (use of, advantages and disadvantages)
Cultural life: celebrations and festivals
Cultural life: reading; music; sport; film and television
Theme 2: Local area, holiday and travel
Holidays: preferences; experiences; destinations
Travel and tourist transactions: travel and accommodation; directions
Travel and tourist transactions: asking for help and dealing with problems; eating out; shopping
Town, region and country: weather; places to see; things to do
Theme 3: School
What school is like: school types; school day; subjects
What school is like: rules and pressures; celebrating success
School activities: school trips; events and exchanges
Theme 4: Future aspirations, study and work
Using languages beyond the classroom: forming relationships; travel; employment
Ambitions: further study; volunteering; training
Work: jobs; careers and professions
Theme 5: International and global dimension
Bringing the world together: sports events; music events; campaigns and good causes
Environmental issues: being 'green'; access to natural resources
Grammar
Nouns, noun suffixes (子, 家, 员/員, 儿/兒, 者) and measure words
Pronouns: personal, demonstrative (这/這, 那), 大家 and 自己
Adjectives/stative verbs, modifiers (很, 非常, 得多, 极了) and exclamations (太…了, 真)
Comparatives: 比, 比较/比較, 最, 跟/和…一样/一樣 and comparison with quantities
Adverbs: 非常, 常常, 一定, 也, 还/還, 就, 经常/經常, 从来/從來
Verbs: 是, 有, verb-object verbs and modal verbs (会/會, 想, 要, 应该/應該, 可以, 得, 必须/必須, 能)
Aspect and time: completed 了, experiential 过/過, progressive 在/正在, future intention (打算, 准备/準備) and imminent action
Verb complements: direction, degree, manner (得) and resultative complements
Prepositions/co-verbs (从/從, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给/給) and location (在, 是, 离/離)
Interrogatives: 吗/嗎, choice questions, 还是/還是, question words, tag questions and indirect questions
Conjunctions and paired structures: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就, 不但…而且, 除了…以外, 越…越
Number, quantity, time and date: numbers to 1 million, ordinals with 第, prices, duration and time-expression word order
Higher-tier sentence patterns: verb reduplication, imperatives, reported speech (听说/聽說), topic/comment sentences and 是 + stative verb for emphasis
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