Opinion on a compiled lesson

[Guest]

Dear fellow learners of Chinese,

 

I am starting to teach a Chinese news class very soon where I will be using my own materials. I would like to ask you to share your opinion on the sample lesson below. Please note it is only a complementary course, and not a core course. Thank you.

 

Here is the link to the lesson text and audio file: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hnliPMkhirDiZZSYibpIQ13uIQWZBkkL?usp=sharing.

[Moshen]

I didn't go to the link because you didn't provide enough background information.  What level of learner is this for?  Beginner?  Intermediate? Advanced?

 

And simplified or traditional?

[Guest]

Hey, thank you for your reply. The class is in Traditional Chinese and the level is upper-intermediate.

[Moshen]

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Hey, thank you for your reply. The class is in Traditional Chinese

 

Good to know.  Count me out. 

[becky82]

Diving into 六四, hey?  I was in a group class once, and the teacher brought up Palestine-Israel.  Nobody in the class wanted to participate because the topic was too sensitive and unpleasant to think about.

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[PerpetualChange]

Not interested in the topic but I guess many Chinese learners want to talk about these sensitive issues...

[phoneticsem]

 I am learning simplified Chinese. But the style it presented is good.Passage, Vocabulary with pinyin and meanings

 

 Can you able to convert to Simplified Chinese? and add a Page? Simplified chinese and traditional Chinese differs only in writing? Or any grammatical differences as well?

[Guest]

Thank you all for your valuable opinion. Miko869, it is original audio recording aired on Radio Taiwan International (as is written in brackets below the text), however, the tempo is changed to 80 % so students can better understand what the anchor is saying. I personally find the intonation and prosody very natural, but I guess that solely depends on the period of time you spent living in Taiwan. Maybe you find it unnatural and robotic because you have not lived in Taiwan and are not used to the language of news there.

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[Guest]

@Miko869 Thank you for your suggestion. I completely agree with you, however, I will start with modified speed and slowly introduce recordings in original tempo. I don't want students to get discouraged at the very beginning.