Chinese Continuers 2018 HSC exam pack

Conversation

In better responses, students were able to:

• engage effectively and respond in detail to the questions
• demonstrate excellent control of vocabulary and language structures
• use a variety of language expressions such as idioms and common sayings appropriately
• maintain a natural flow of speech with good level of fluency and pronunciation.

Areas for students to improve include:

• applying good listening skills to assist understanding of the examiner's questions
• providing in-depth answers, for example, when responding to a question on travel experience, students should use information relating to ‘when’, ‘with whom’, ‘how to travel’, what he/she had seen and done and some reflection on or evaluation of the experience
• avoiding the use of long, pre-learned material in the conversations, and responding to questions using relevant information
• mastering a variety of sentence structures and a wide range of grammar as prescribed in the syllabus.

Students should:

• familiarise themselves with a range of vocabulary and sentence structures from the various topics studied in class
• read the questions carefully and listen to the spoken items for the relevant information to determine the specific requirements for each question.

In better responses, students were able to:

• demonstrate clear understanding of the main ideas as well as specific information in texts
• support their responses with detailed reference to the text
• determine the purpose and the audience of texts and respond to questions correctly
• precisely identify and summarize the required detail (Q4, 5)
• produce responses that have textual support and answers addressing the key elements of the questions (Q6, 7)
• analyse ideas and information and respond to questions using their own words rather than provide mere translations of segments of text.

Areas for students to improve include:

• demonstrating an holistic understanding of texts that is beyond the literal understanding, and using this understanding to respond to questions appropriately and correctly
• paying special attention to the requirements of every question
• avoiding translating parts of texts
• including specific reference to content and language in questions that require it.

Part A

Students should:

• read the texts and the questions carefully and provide sufficient information when answering the questions (Q9a, 10a)
• identify the specific requirements of every question
• use the number of lines and the mark value of each question as an indication of the depth required for each question.

In better responses, students were able to:

• illustrate well-supported opinions using appropriate details from the text (Q9b, c, 10b, c, d)
• demonstrate perceptive analysis of the text with comprehensive textual reference (Q9c, 10c, d)
• address every aspect of the question through in-depth discussion (Q9c)
• integrate specific details in their answer
• identify and purpose and the audience in texts
• refer to both content and language and give specific examples to respond to questions perceptively
• justify their responses with examples from the texts.

Areas for students to improve include:

• paying special attention to the requirement of every question
• avoiding translation of parts of texts and using the translation as the answer.

Part B

Students should:

• respond to the advertisement efficiently
• use their dictionary effectively
• use a variety of language structures, expressions and authentic vocabulary
• organise ideas in paragraphs to produce coherent texts
• read the question carefully paying special attention to its specific requirements
• write with the text type required and word limit specified.

In better responses, students were able to:

• demonstrate an excellent ability to understand all ideas and information in the text by writing a response that is reflective of these ideas
• demonstrate an excellent ability to organise and structure ideas and information logically and coherently
• demonstrate a good understanding of audience, context and purpose
• use their own words in responding to the various ideas in the text, with a range of vocabulary and a variety of sentence structures.

Areas for students to improve include:

• expressing ideas derived from the information in the text rather than from general knowledge
• elaborating their responses within the clues given in the text
• organising their ideas in a logical manner appropriate to the text type and its language conventions.

Students should:

• write a whole text with special attention to ideas, language and structure
• write ideas and opinions with depth and support their ideas with a variety of examples
• demonstrate highly-developed ability of controlling the language
• sequence and structure ideas coherently
• write effectively on the value of the cultural experience or on high school life and education
• use a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to express ideas and information.

In better responses, students were able to:

• write appropriately for the audience, purpose and context of the task
• include a variety of ideas and information appropriate to the requirement of the task
• expand their ideas and support them with excellent appropriate and logical ideas
• sequence and structure their responses using appropriate language conventions, correct grammatical structures and a range of vocabulary and sentence structures.

Areas for students to improve include:

• writing Chinese characters correctly
• including a variety of ideas in their responses
• paying special attention to spelling and grammar
• writing for the purpose and audience specified in the question
• adhering to the word limit specified in the question.