Our Primary Chinese Class is a long-term course that includes four major components: speaking, listening, Chinese language application and essay writing training. The Classes are in line with the latest MOE syllabus and prepare students for their examinations, whilst guiding them every step of the way to build the confidence that they need to excel in exams.

Our Primary Chinese Course consists of four teaching modules:

1. Oral and Listening Comprehension

This module focuses on cultivating recitation skills, improving listening skills and enhancing oral expression abilities. Through a series of teaching measures, we help students overcome negative emotions towards learning Chinese, improve learning quality and vastly improve their listening and oral skills, building their confidence in learning Chinese.

2. Application of Chinese Language

This module emphasizes the learning and understanding of Chinese language and literature. We pay attention to teaching words, phrases, sentences and short passages. Each exercise in class effectively strengthens the students’ grasp of the knowledge points.

3. Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension is an important component of elementary school Chinese language learning and it is one of the most complex areas for students preparing for their examinations. In traditional teaching, students regard reading comprehension as a tedious task, which not only hinders the fun of reading but also produces a very passive learning psychology, resulting in difficulty in improving grades.

Our reading comprehension exercises at Sharp Learners are based on the teaching of the outline of words, phrases and sentences. We select engaging exercises to assist teaching while imparting students with vocabulary and phrases, language sense, basic grammar and methods of

reading short passages. We also teach efficient and accurate answering skills and error correction with thorough review steps.

4. Essay Training

Essay writing is the most challenging part of elementary school Chinese language and universally seen as the most challenging component in exams. As students’ reading volumes are limited, writing training should start as early as possible.

Our essay training at Sharp Learners emphasizes the teaching of vocabulary comprehension and application, phrase structure and usage, paragraph main ideas and connections as well as the understanding and appreciation of the article. The teaching objective is to cultivate students’ writing abilities and their ability to use Chinese language.