As students enter into a new phase of their education journey, our team of teachers are dedicated to help them build a strong foundation in Chinese, gain unshakeable learning confidence and gain Key Scoring Skills for the ultimate PSLE Chinese exams.
Empowering them with right competency skills and cognitive development now sets the stage for future academic success.
The entry into Primary School marks the start of formal education for your child. Overwhelming and nerve-wrecking are common feelings for both parents and students with the pressure of school life and demands from the MOE syllabus.
Our Primary 1 & 2 Chinese curriculum aims to help your child build a concrete foundation to ensure that this brand new academic journey is an enjoyable one, with exam success in Upper Primary. Every lesson throughout the year is focused on reinforcing the school syllabus to further promote independent learning of new concepts, themes and skills.
With our lean class sizes of 8-10 students, students are provided a safe environment to interact, ask questions and articulate their opinions. The rapport and mutual respect built with our teachers can encourage students to cultivate a genuine interest towards Chinese learning with an inquisitive mind.
From simple MCQ questions to cloze passages, our engaging enrichment class facilitates the student’s progress to be way ahead of the MOE Chinese syllabus while solidifying their foundation to manage the learning pace in school
- Surpass MOE’s target of the number of Chinese characters recognition in P1 and P2
- Understand Chinese characters, words and phrases based on content
- Understand Hanyu Pinyin with accurate pronunciation of Chinese characters
- Grasp different tones of characters and develop independent reading capabilities
- Nail the basics in both written and conversational Chinese
- Strong literacy foundation for Listening Comprehension, Composition Writing and Oral
Our curated Primary 2 curriculum focuses on the three main building blocks of your child’s Chinese foundational literacy: Comprehension, Composition Writing and Oral. Build up confidence in reading, writing and speaking in no time to tackle Chinese exams in the following year with ease.
Composition
- Understand the fundamentals of simple sentence construction and paragraph structuring
- Learn the basic writing techniques such as five senses descriptions and dialogues
- Build up vocabulary bank that surpasses MOE syllabus requirements
- Ability to write a story with logical sequence of events with cohesiveness
- Accurate depiction of people, things and events through writing
- Cultivate a genuine interest in Chinese writing to prevent writing phobia and anxiety
Oral
- Recognise, read and pronounce Chinese characters accurately
- Gain confidence in speaking Chinese, with conversational fluency
- Develop personal opinions and learn how to articulate them verbally
Comprehension
- Learn how to identify main ideas and key details in text
- Exposure to different comprehension question types
- Pick up basic answering techniques
Lagging behind the school syllabus? It is catch up time in Primary 3 and 4.
It is extra crucial for students to ramp up their learning abilities in building a rock solid foundation in their mastery of the Chinese language. With more complex question types, the curriculum is set to expand, stretch and challenge the student’s capabilities to perform in their comprehension, composition and oral exams.
With quarterly tests and semester examinations now part of the students’ lives, our teachers are highly focused on helping every individual develop Key Scoring Skills to be results driven.
- Understand the intent of different comprehension question types
- Learn how to use specific keywords and phrases to frame answers
- Hone meta cognitive abilities for clue sourcing within the comprehension passages
- Learn how to speed read and understand the text effectively
- Develop the ability to answer inferential questions
Composition
- Learn how to appeal to the five senses for a vivid sensory reading experience
- Know how to pace the story narrative for better flow and structure
- Develop creative writing skills to generate reader interest
- Expand vocabulary knowledge to beef up content
Oral
- Includes 1-to-1 simulations with direct feedback for improvement
- Be exposed to oral examination formats and questions
- Identify core topic and main ideas in video content
- Develop an interest in real world affairs
- Hone communication skills for conversations in Chinese, including sharing of personal experiences
- Ramp up application skills of learnt vocabulary in conversations
PSLE success starts from Primary 5 preparation.
At this critical juncture, we expect our students to have a firm grounding in the Chinese language — more confident in the way they speak and write, coupled with a resilient attitude in facing every challenging question that comes their way. Moving towards higher-order thinking and application skills, students will now focus on honing their answering skills for examination papers and fine tune revision techniques to gain extra marks.
As we work towards big goals with quarterly milestones set for each student, our teachers adopt a tailored teaching style to meet the needs of every student and immediately address any learning gaps.
Leveraging both past year papers and specially designed mock papers by our experienced teachers, students can gain simulative experience to prepare them psychologically and emotionally for the ultimate national exam.
Built for PSLE academic success, our Upper Primary Chinese curriculum will help your child be equipped with the right tools to excel under the new AL scoring system.
- Get access to model answers for standard comprehension questions
- Fine-tune and sharpen precise answering techniques, especially for higher order questions
- Reinforce response construction in a clear and logical manner
- Push-forward abilities on reading comprehension
- Improve critical-thinking and analytical skills to evaluate information week-on-week
Composition
- Fully grasp pictorial composition analysis and planning
- Increase exposure to highly, potentially tested pictorial composition questions with a myriad of model essays for reference
- Ramp up must-know vocabulary words and phrases, with emphasis on application skills for crucial vocabulary terms
- Master the art of writing a good opening with an excellent, corresponding concluding passage for a compelling essay
- Refine story-telling skills to produce an engaging story that captures the reader’s attention throughout
- Fine-tune language precision for clarity and meaning
Oral
- Includes 1-to-1 simulations with direct feedback for improvement
- Get familiarised with highly, potentially tested video topics during PSLE
- Avoid common mistakes and learn how to grasp the key topic through video analysis
- Gain time management strategies to make full use of preparation duration
- Learn to formulate sound recommendations and opinions to oral questions
- Be trained to answer with appropriate examples from personal experiences
- Sharpen analytical, observational and answering skill set
- Broaden current affairs knowledge
This course aims to cultivate the child’s interest in learning and speaking Chinese in a complete Chinese speaking environment. The child is led unknowingly into a comprehensive method of learning Chinese, from basic to intermediate levels, through fun games, singing, and arts and craft. The materials provided cover pronunciation, reciting, recognition of words, story-telling, phrases and short sentences.
Lesson time: 1 hour
Remark: A parent has to accompany the child throughout the lessons.
Suitable age group
3-6 years old (N1-K2)
Materials
14 books
1 CD
Flashcards
Content
72 commonly used word
144 common phrases
52 standard sentences
8 reading passages
36 colorable paintings
正文
句子
自编书
词语
贴纸本
贴贴乐
阅读
年龄段
3-6岁 （N1-K2）
内容
72个高频字
144个常用词语
52个标准句型
6篇阅读
36幅涂色画
4-6岁 （N2-K2）
165个常用字
64条成语
100个常用词语
25个标准句型
8篇阅读
6篇看图说话
16个书写字
32个反义词
8首古诗
6-8岁 （K1-P2）
250个常用字
100条成语
240个常用词语
60个标准句型
6篇看图说话
60个书写汉字
15篇短文阅读
成语手拉手
句型练习
9岁及以上 （P3-P6）
600个常用汉字
400条成语
1000个常用词语
50篇短文阅读
综合练习
成语对对碰
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