Sample work Chinese Year 11: blog

Description of activity

Writing in Chinese 

For Task 2, imagine that you are the student who stayed with Li Daming/Li Xiaohong. They posted the below blog based on their exchange with a family in Melbourne. You decide to write a blog about your experiences with their family.

In your blog refer specifically to Li Daming/Li Xiaohong, their family, school and the town where you stayed based on the information from their blog as well as information that you have provided in your application.

Li Daming/Li Xiaohong's blog

Context

Students would have studied approximately 200 hours of the Chinese course. They are assumed to be competent in communicating ideas and information. They have knowledge of past, present and future tenses, and relevant vocabulary. Students are aware of the language and culture of Chinese speaking communities.

Outcomes

Stage 6

The student:

• 2.1 applies knowledge of language structures to create original text
• 2.2 composes informative, reflective, persuasive texts appropriate to context, purpose and/or audience
• 2.3 structures and sequences ideas and information
• 3.1 conveys the gist of texts and identifies specific information
• 4.3 reflects upon significant aspects of language and culture.

Criteria for assessing learning

In Task 2 (blog), the student will be assessed on how well they:

• compose text appropriate to context
• demonstrate the relevance of information, ideas and research
• structure information and ideas
• demonstrate capacity to manipulate language structures and vocabulary in Chinese.

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