Clayton High – Chinese III

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

Chinese III is designed for students who have successfully completed the first two years of Chinese. In this course, students will be guided away from mechanical, classroom-style language learning at the beginning level and develop their language proficiency through more complex grammar and more spontaneous conversation. Authentic reading, listening and visual materials such as maps, restaurant signs, pop songs and housing ads on online newspapers and TV are incorporated into the class. Students will develop their cultural understanding and appreciation through frequent comparisons of different regions in China as well as between China and the United States of America. Students are expected to communicate on the covered topics in a more spontaneous way and to read and write with an active vocabulary of 750 characters.