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Chinese (Mandarin) 8673
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Free Chinese (Mandarin) 8673 study notes for AQA GCSE students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Paper 1: Listening skills
Identifying key points and specific details
Opinions, attitudes and reasons in spoken language
Past, present and future time references
Announcements, instructions and telephone messages
Short conversations and news bulletins
Longer passages: deducing meaning and drawing conclusions
Paper 3: Reading skills
Short texts: public notices, advertisements and instructions
Key points, details and opinions in longer texts
Scanning, organising and presenting relevant details
Inference and implicit meaning in unfamiliar language
Literary and authentic extracts (contemporary and historical)
Section B: translation from Chinese into English
Paper 4: Writing tasks
Message from a photo: four sentences (8 marks)
Short passage from four bullet points (~30 characters, 16 marks)
Structured writing task (~75 characters, 16 marks)
Open-ended writing task, Higher Tier (~125 characters, 32 marks)
Translation from English into Chinese
Style, register and accuracy in extended writing
Theme 1: Identity and culture
Me, my family and friends: relationships with family and friends
Me, my family and friends: marriage/partnership
Technology in everyday life: social media
Technology in everyday life: mobile technology
Free-time activities: music, cinema and TV
Free-time activities: food and eating out
Free-time activities: sport
Customs and festivals in Chinese-speaking countries/communities
Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest
Home, town, neighbourhood and region
Social issues: charity/voluntary work
Social issues: healthy/unhealthy living
Global issues: the environment
Global issues: poverty/homelessness
Travel and tourism
Theme 3: Current and future study and employment
My studies
Life at school/college
Education post-16
Jobs, career choices and ambitions
Grammar in use: words and phrases
Nouns, noun suffixes (子, 家, 员; H: 儿, 者) and measure words
Pronouns: personal, demonstrative (这, 那), 大家 and 自己 (H)
Adjectives/stative verbs, modifiers (很, 非常; H: 得多, 极了) and exclamations (太…了, 真)
Comparatives: 比, 比较, 最, 跟/和…一样 and comparison with quantities (H)
Adverbs: 非常, 常常, 一定, 也, 还, 就; H: 经常, 从来, 从来不
Prepositions/co-verbs (从, 到, 在, 用, 坐; H: 给) and location (在, 是; H: 离)
Number, quantity, time and date: numbers to 1 million, 第, prices, duration and time-expression word order
Grammar in use: verbs and sentence structures
Verbs: 是, 有, verb-object verbs and modal verbs (会, 想, 要, 应该, 可以; H: 得, 必须, 能)
Aspect and time: completed 了, experiential 过, progressive 在/正在, intention (打算; H: 准备) and imminent action
Complements: direction, degree, manner with 得 and resultative complements (看见, 看不见)
Interrogatives: 吗, choice questions, 还是, question words, tag questions (呢, 吧) and indirect questions (H)
Conjunctions and paired structures: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就, 一边…一边; H: 不但…而且, 除了…以外, 越…越
Higher Tier patterns: verb reduplication, imperatives, reported speech (听说), topic/comment sentences and 是 + stative verb
Vocabulary & functions
Measure words and quantities
Expressions of time, dates and frequency
Location, distance and directions
Opinions, agreement and justification
Greetings, exclamations and asking questions
Money, weights, measures and access
Connectives, negatives and comparisons
Higher Tier theme vocabulary extension
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