Dr Hua Xiang Pethick-Lawrence House, 601b

For students who have studied Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT - B1) or LN718 Mandarin Level 4 or equivalent.

Students should: Demonstrate full commitment to regular attendance, completion of homework, and all pieces of continuous assessment; Dedicate at least two hours per week for coursework, in addition to classes. Admission into the course after completion of the online test and upon tutor’s approval during the Needs Analysis Interview. For anyone who wants to improve Mandarin Chinese. The student should have sufficient skills in all four skills as listed above.

Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT - B1) course aims to develop all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Course materials will be presented via a dialogue and a text. Additional texts on business culture of China are also included.

This course covers 10 commonly used topics in the business contexts for effective language use, including:

• business communication
• meeting reports
• visiting clients
• organising business trips
• relationship building with clients
• visiting companies
• opening new offices

The main linguistic content includes:

• complex sentence structures
• linguistic politeness
• express possibility and probability 
• express comparison
• express purposes
• directive verbs 

By the end of the course, the students will be able to communicate in some regular business daily activities and reach BCT Level B1.

16 hours of classes in the MT. 22 hours of classes in the LT. 2 hours of classes in the ST.

Students will be expected to produce 10 exercises in the MT and LT.

Excel in Chinese - Better Chinese, Better Business, book 2, Huiling Wang & Hong Zhou (eds), 2011, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

Continuous assessment (70%) in the MT, LT and ST.
Oral examination (30%) in the LT and ST.