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Chinese – First Language (9263)
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Free Chinese – First Language (9263) study notes for Oxford AQA IGCSE students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Theme one: Society
Family and friend
Everyday life
Free time activities
Fitness and health
The media
Home, neighbourhood, town and region
Theme two: Education and work
School life and routines
Preparing for exams
The education system
Higher and further education
Work career and ambitions
Reading comprehension skills
Main message and key points
Retrieving details and opinions
Deducing meaning and inference
Attitude, tone and emotion
Drawing conclusions and evaluating
Answering in characters: concise short answers
Close reading of literary fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction extracts
Character portrayal
Plot and structure
Setting, scene and atmosphere
Narrative point of view
Whole-text questions
Theme three: Culture
Entertainment
Arts and literature
Customs and traditions
Festivals and special celebrations
Travel and tourism
Regional and ethnic diversity
Critical and comparative reading
Non-fiction: exposition and argument
Media and online texts
Analysing writing techniques and effects
Fact, opinion and persuasion
Comparing two thematically related texts
Collating and synthesising sources
Theme four: Science and technology
Social media
Artificial intelligence
Technology in everyday life and education
Scientific research and innovation
Theme five: Global issues
Climate change
Environmental issues
Music events
Sports events
Word classes
Content words and function words
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Numerals and measure words
Pronouns
Adverbs
Prepositions, conjunctions, particles and onomatopoeia
Phrases and sentence patterns
Coordinate phrases
Subject-predicate and verb-object phrases
Modifier-head phrases and the 'de' construction
Quantity, complement, locative and fixed phrases
Prepositional phrases
Subject-predicate and non-subject-predicate sentences
Statements, questions, commands and exclamations
Compound sentences and contracted sentences
词类
虚词
量词
连词
助词
拟声词
词组
动宾
补充
方位
固定
‘的’字结构
Rhetorical devices
Simile, metaphor and personification
Hyperbole and metonymy
Puns and irony
Rhetorical question forms
Antithesis and parallelism
Climax and repetition
Contrast
Modes of writing
Narration
Description
Exposition
Argument
Expressing feeling
单句
非主谓句
疑问句
祈使句
感叹句
复句
偏正复句
紧缩句
Writing tasks
Passage writing: informal context (approx. 50 characters)
Passage writing: formal context (approx. 50 characters)
Register, tone and forms of address
Guided writing: letters and emails (approx. 200 characters)
Covering four bullet points fully
Composition: descriptive writing (approx. 325 characters)
Composition: narrative writing (approx. 325 characters)
Planning, paragraphing and cohesion
修辞
比拟
借代
反语
反问
排比
反复
Themes, vocabulary and functions
Theme 1: Society
Theme 2: Education and work
Theme 3: Culture
Theme 4: Science and technology
Theme 5: Global issues
Punctuation and character accuracy
写作手法
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