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2020 Fall Debate Class

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STEP 1: Receive approval for the student to register for classes by first contracting me through FB, LINE, or WeChat or emailing me at chinesedebateint@gmail.com .

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  1. Please put the name of your child in the subject line of your email.

  2. Send me a picture of a Chinese text that the student can comfortably read, be it storybooks, comics, newspapers, textbooks, magazines, novels, etc.

  3. Attach a 30-second audio recording of the student reading such a text. Please practice some prior to recording.

  4. Your Facebook (most preferred), LINE, or WeChat (least preferred) unique account ID for quicker follow-up and communication.

 

Our program is a Chinese debate class and is NOT for beginner Chinese learners.  Even our beginner debate classes are geared toward children with fairly fluent colloquial Chinese. In terms of ILR level equivalent for kids, I would say this would be ILR level 3 or professional working proficiency for their age, in terms of speaking and reading proficiency. My best guess is that a minority of kids from Chinese heritage family reach ILR level 3.

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第一步：辩论课新学生的基本条件是，中文家常话还算流利。除非学生在中国或台湾有读完小学五年级，我请有兴趣参加的学生寄给我以下的档案给我鑑定 ，看教练的课程是否合适。我的信箱是 chinesedebateint@gmail.com.

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  1. Email 的主题请写你孩子的名字

  2. ㄧ张任何学生能阅读的中文文章的照片，可以是童书，教科书，报纸，漫画，小说，杂誌等。

  3. 学生朗读此文章30秒的录音。录音前请先练ㄧ下。

  4. 脸书 （最好）, LINE （第二）, 或 微信 （第三） 的帐号，以便快速联络。
     


基本上，在此阶段，我们在找中文有ㄧ定流利度的学生，这样才确保上课时学生能与教练进行有效的双向沟通。学生是学简体繁体皆可，需要ㄧ些注音或拼音帮助也可以。
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Fall class roster & schedule

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  1. 第一天First day: Monday 8/24/20

  2. Thanksgiving break: 11/21-27

  3. Last day: Sunday 12/20/20

  4. Review class roster

  5. No classes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday MORNING from 9/25 -9/27. There IS class on Sunday 5PM 9/27, as it is Monday in Taiwan then. Coach Hu will be a judge for a debate competition then.

  6. No classes on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10/23 – 10/26. Coach Hu will be a judge for a debate competition then.

 

General class time table

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  1. Week 1: 8/24-8/30 Regular class (讨论单元）

  2. Week 2: 8/31-9/6 Regular class (讨论单元）

  3. Week 3: 9/7-9/13 Debate topic #1 – week 1

  4. Week 4: 9/14-9/20 Debate topic #1 -week 2

  5. Week 5: 9/21-9/27 Debate topic #1 – week 3

  6. Week 6: 9/28-10/4 Debate topic #1 – week 4 (intramural debate 练习赛)

  7. Week 7: 10/5-10/11 Debate topic #1 – week 5 (intramural debate 练习赛)

  8. Week 8: 10/12-10/18 Debate topic #1 – week 6 (intramural debate 练习赛)

  9. Week 9: 10/19-10/25 Regular class (讨论单元）

  10. Week
     10: 10/26 – 11/1 Regular class (讨论单元）

  11. Week 11: 11/2 – 11/8 Debate topic #2 – week 1

  12. Week 12: 11/9 – 11/15 Debate topic #2 – week 2

  13. Week 13: 11/16 – 11/22 Debate topic # 2 – week 3

  14. Week 14: 11/30 – 12/6 Debate topic #2 – week 4 (intramural debate 练习赛）

  15. Week 15: 12/7 – 12/13 Debate topic #2 – week 5 (intramural debate 练习赛)

  16. Week 16: 12/14 – 12/20 Debate topic #2 – week 6 (intramural debate 练习赛)
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Read Aloud Class

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STEP 1: Receive approval for the student to register for classes by first contracting me through FB, LINE, or WeChat or emailing me at chinesedebateint@gmail.com .

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1.  Please have your child ( typically 7 to 9 years old) practice reading aloud to fluency on Aesop's Fable "The Fox and the Grape).  This may take 10 minutes or it may take 30 minutes every day three days in a row.  Towards the bottom of the page, there is a recording and downloadable file with both traditional and simplified text for parents to add phonetics if needed.

2.  Record one read-aloud of the read-aloud

3.  Send me the audio recording.  This will allow the instructor to know how to place your child.  We have four levels of read-aloud students.

 

 

Screening: Please message me on FB and email me a recording of your child reading the above sentence.  Please first have your child practice reading it a few times.  I will let you know if our classes are suitable for your child and, if so, the “read-aloud-class-level” I assign your child. After approval, I will work out a class time for your child.

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  • We switch students throughout the year to different classes depending on their proficiency and preference, space permitting.  Students can switch to debate classes as well.  We start new classes all the time to accommodate the needs of the students and parents.

Step 2

Registration

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STEP 3:  After we finalize the class selection, we will proceed as below:

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  • 我把家長加入該班的FB家長族群，以便溝通。I add the new parent to a FB class parent chat group for ease of communication.

  • 我透過 email，邀請家長加入整個中文辯論的臉書團體，以便溝通。I invite the new parent via email to join the FB Chinese debate group for ease of communication.

  • I will send you a login email to Tutorbird.com, our class scheduling and online resource folder software, where you may find Zoom link and additional course material if any.

  • Please review the fee page.  There is no class the week of Thanksgiving (11/23-29/20) and Sunday 12/20/20 is the last day of class.

  • I have a very small team and it took a lot of our time to get these up and running in just a couple of months.  This operation exists solely since we believe it can really benefit the children and the parents and want to raise the bar on how Chinese is taught here as a whole.  We will continue to work on improving this operation. 

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