Course prescriptions for Chinese Extension 2020–2025
Students taking Chinese Extension study language and culture through prescribed themes and contemporary issues, via a range of prescribed texts. Find out more about these course prescriptions.
About course prescriptions
There are prescribed texts required for study in the Chinese Extension Stage 6 course. The HSC course prescriptions should be read in conjunction with the:
- Chinese Extension Stage 6 Syllabus and other support documents
- Record of changes for Chinese Extension Stage 6 Syllabus
There is a prescribed text required for study in the Chinese Extension course.
The organisational focus of the Chinese Extension course is the theme:
- the individual and contemporary society.
A number of issues that exemplify aspects of the theme are prescribed for study. Students engage with the issues through the study of a prescribed text and related texts.
NESA reserves the right to make changes to the prescribed texts listed on this page.
Prescribed issues
| Education | Relationships | Division in society |
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Prescribed text
Text type: Film
Title: Young Style (2013) 青春派
Director: Liu Jie
Extracts for study
There are 4 extracts prescribed for study.
Extract 1: 5.45 to 11.00 (approximately)
From: The scene in which the mother starts to walk home with Ju Ran. “My mum is showing up from nowhere.”
Ju: 我妈神一样的速度出现。
To: The scene in which the mother cries at the restaurant. “My mum’s dream is about to go up in flame.”
Ju: 我妈的梦想也要破灭了。
Extract 2: 15.45 to 21.00 (approximately)
From: The scene in which Ju Ran returns to school to repeat the grade. “I am a superman.”
Ju: 全力以赴，我是超人。
To: The scene in which the three students ask Ju Ran to join their group. “Nonsense!”
Ju: 无聊！
Extract 3: 1:03.16 to 1:07.22 (approximately)
From: The scene in which the teacher lectures the class. “In the first mock test…”
Teacher Sa：这次一模考试…
To: The scene in which the students pour water over their head. “Shoot me!”
Li Fei: 逼死我算了。
Extract 4: 1:19.03 to 1:23.26 (approximately)
From: The scene in which teacher Sa talks about her feeling for the class. “In the past fifty something days…”
Teacher Sa：在过去的这五十几天里面…
To: The scene in which the whole class takes the graduation photo. “Three, two, one”
Photographer: 来，三、二、一。
Notes
- Students need to be familiar with the whole text.
- The prescribed issues are mandatory, the dash points are not. They are suggestions only and are included to give a sense of the scope of the prescribed issues.
- Study of the text prescribed for any Year 12 course may not begin before the completion of the Year 11 course. This exclusion applies to study in the Year 11 Chinese Continuers course and to Year 11 courses in other subjects. It also applies to the study of a prescribed text in another medium, such as the film of a novel.
- Where an extract of a film is included in the external exam, the transcription will be taken directly from the film.
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