Upper Intermediate Courses

Chinese HSK Level 4 –  Discussions & Debates (path to Independent Speaker)

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  • Designed for students with HSK 3 equivalent skill / 600+ vocabularies

  • Relevant and interesting topics for discussions & debates

  • 95% Mandarin speaking immersive method in class

  • £360 tuition for 10 lessons and 2 free make up lessons

  • Extra benefits: free E learning website, fresh cards and videos

  • Book a trial lesson now, let us place you in the right course 

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Upper Intermediate T1 Thursday #2413 Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Oct 17, 2024 – Feb 13, 2025 Aldgate £380 for 12 weeks
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Upper Intermediate T2 Wednesday #2502 Wednesday 6:30-8:00pm Jan 22 – Apr 9, 2025 Aldgate £380 for 12 weeks
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Upper Intermediate T2 Thursday #2503 Thursday 6:30-8:00pm Feb 13 – May 1, 2025 Aldgate £380 for 12 weeks
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Upper Intermediate T3 Monday #2501 Monday 6:30-8:00pm Jan 20 – Apr 7, 2025 Aldgate £380 for 12 weeks
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Upper Intermediate 1.0 Wednesday #2408 Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Sep 18 – Dec 4, 2024 Aldgate £380 for 12 weeks
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Upper Intermediate 1.0 Thursday #2413 Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Oct 17, 2024 – Feb 13, 2025 Aldgate £380 for 12 weeks
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Upper Intermediate 2.0 Wednesdays #2411 Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Sep 25 – Dec 11, 2024 Aldgate £380 for 12 weeks
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Upper Intermediate 3.0 Monday #2410 Monday 6:30-8:30pm Sep 23 – Dec 9, 2024 Aldgate £380 for 12 weeks
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Upper Intermediate 3.0 Saturday Intensive #2409 Saturday 10:30-12:00pm, 1:00-2:30pm Sep 7 – Oct 12, 2024 Aldgate £380 for 6 weeks
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Upper Intermediate 4.0 Saturday Intensive #2412 Saturday 10:30am-12:00pm; 1:00-2:30pm Nov 9 – Dec 14, 2024 Aldgate £380 for 6 weeks
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ABOUT THE COURSE

Curriculum

The Upper Intermediate level has 4 courses of 12 lessons each. Our curriculum is set based on Chinese HSK Level 4. No more grammar learning in this level, except for corrections on the use of words for their subtle differences. This level is all about vocabularies. There are further 1200 very useful words to learn in the total of 48 lessons.

The topics covered in this course are normally relevant to current affairs, critical and sometimes even controversial, such as environmental protection, importance of friendship, internet shopping trend, work life balance etc. We have invited 20 native speakers to share their personal opinions on such topics, before we ask the students to express their own, and that’s how we engage students to effectively learn vocabularies on the topics.

Training modules

Upper Intermediate is the level you are being trained to become an independent speaker, ie you might make mistakes, but your message is clear; or you might not know certain words, but you can go around it to explain in a different way via using synonyms perhaps. The key skill we are targeting in this level is discussion and debates, which will require logical and analytical thinking from the students, and adequate words on the topic. It’s a step up from Intermediate’s storytelling skills, but it’s the level where you can say you are getting comfortably fluently. The key modules are Vocab Workshop 词, Sentence Workshop 句, Debate Club 辩,Conversation Flow 谈, Drama Club 看 and Reading Club 读. Chinese Characters 字 are also taught in this course.

Learning content

For learning material, we use HSK Standard Course Book Level 4 to set the curriculum and for reading, while all other tutorial presentations, learning assessment games, fluency practice worksheet and immersive videos are all originally developed by PM academic team, and are exclusive to our students.

STUDENT SUCCESS

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SIMPLE ENTRY TEST

To join this level, you should have / be able to:

Vocabularies:

  • 800 – 1200 words

Language Command:

  • Can read Pinyin & 300+ characters
  • Give a story about yourself
  • Make comparison and choice
  • Explain events / reasons in details
  • Give logical and analytical answers
  • Give suggestion, reminder, comfort, encouragement

PM’s Fluency Skill Training Target for Level 4: 

Independent speaker skill to discuss and debate even abstract topics 

Upper Intermediate 1.0 Entry Test

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Upper Intermediate 3.0 Entry Test

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Translate the following sentences or paragraph into Chinese Pinyin or Characters. You can use dictionary if you don’t know certain words.

Send to us at hello@practicalmandarin.co.uk . We will review your answers and get back to you within 24 hours.

“ Nowadays internet shopping has become more and more popular, for young people especially, they love to shop online. You can literally buy anything online, you can buy books, clothes, handbags, you can even buy furniture and cell phones. Internet shopping becoming so popular is down to two main reasons. First of all, there are a lot more things online, and it’s even cheaper than buying them in stores. This alone is the main reason that attracts people to turn to online shopping. Second of all, people can buy what they like at any time, the seller can post your purchase to your office or your home, it’s convenient and time saving even. “

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