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Practical support to help you deliver this Edexcel specificationScheme of workThis scheme of work has been produced to help you implement this Edexcel specification. It is offered as an example of one possible model that you should feel free to adapt to meet your needs and is not intended to be in any way prescriptive. It is in editable Word format to make adaptation as easy as possible.

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Other Edexcel teaching resourcesPearson Education have published teaching resources that support the Edexcel in Chinese (Mandarin) specification that include: a Student book — a full colour textbook a Teacher’s Guide – with detailed teaching notes that support the Student Book an Audio CD Pack – which contains audio for the listening exercises in the Student Book an Assessment Pack – reading and listening tests in the style of the examination and writing and speaking controlled assessment tasks for you to use or adapt, along with a clear marking scheme.These resources have been written by a team of authors from the SSAT (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust) Confucius Institute. You’ll find details of all of these at www.edexcel.com/gcse2009 — please look under Chinese/resources.

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1 Revise basics from KS3: greetings, numbers, age, dates.

To be able to write numbers from 1 to 100.

To be able to write age, birthdays, days of the week etc.

Students carry out a class survey to find out each other’s birthday.

Lesson Three of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic. Unit one of Book One of 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides

useful information on this topic. Unit one of Book One of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语

(or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.

2 Revise basics from KS3: basic pronouns 我、你、他 etc, verbs 是、喜欢、吃、喝、看、玩、打 etc, adjectives 好、好吃、好喝、好看、好玩、有意思、没意思 etc.

To be able to write different pronouns, basic verbs and adjectives.

To be able to compose simple sentences using the basic pronouns, verbs and adjectives.

Teacher divide the class into groups and give each group a number of characters learned before and have a group competition to see which group knows most of the words.

Appendix 5 of Edexcel specification for Chinese provides useful information for revision.

3 Chapter 1: All about meUnit 1: My family

To be able to talk about how old each member is, their jobs, their personality and their interests.

Class survey: ‘find someone who…’, students ask each other questions to find someone who has…— an older brother— a younger brother— a dog etc.

Chapter one of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.

Unit two of Book one of 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.

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4 Unit 2: My friends To be able to describe a friend, talk about their appearance, personality and interests.

Looking for a friend — First teacher print out texts about different people with their names and personalities and hobbies and stick them around the classroom.

Students first write down some key adjectives to describe their ideal friends, then look around to find the one who best fit their description as their friend.

Student describe someone in the class and others guess who he/she is.


Lesson ten of Book one of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic.

Unit one of Book one of 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.

5 Unit 3: My likes and dislikes

To be able to talk about hobbies, favourite food and drinks, school subjects.

Interview each other and record the result in a table.


6 Unit 4: My daily routine To be able to talk about what they do on a typical school day.

To be able to ask and answer questions about when certain things happen.

Class survey: Find someone who:— gets up before

6.30 am— has breakfast at 7

am— goes to bed after

11pmetc.

Lesson three of Book two of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.

Unit four of Book two 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.

Lesson two of Book two of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic.

7 Chapter 2: Leisure To be able to talk What hobbies do they Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by

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Unit 1: Hobbies and interest

about hobbies and interests extensively.

have? — Read the sentences about what each person has in his/her school bag and tell what hobbies he/she might have.

Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic. Unit three of Book two 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides

useful information on this topic.


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8 Unit 2: Sports To be able to talk about sports extensively.

To be able to say what they can/can’t do.

To be able to say how good they are at certain sports.

Class survey: find out what sports each person can play.

Make a bar chart to show the result of the survey, and explain in words, eg 我们班有五个人会打篮球，有十个人会踢足球 …

Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.

Lesson twenty of Book one and Lesson twelve of Book two of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.

Lesson nine of Book one of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic.

9 Unit 3: Sports centre To be able to talk about sports centre facilities.

To be able to ask and answer questions about sports centre opening hours and prices.

Role play: one as a Chinese exchange student wanting to do some sports, one as a home student, who explains to the Chinese student what facilities the local sports centre has; the Chinese student asks about opening hours and prices, the home student answers.


Page 83 to 85 of the Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials also covers this topic.

10 Unit 4: Activities outside school

To be able to talk about frequency and duration of activities.

Learn the word order when talking about frequency or duration.

Students write down the activities next to the frequency words.

天天，常常，很少，周末 Students write in

sentences about how often they do different activities and for how long.


11 Unit 5: The Olympics To be able to understand reading text regarding Olympics.

Read short paragraphs about Olympics and answer questions in English.


12 Prepare for Be ready for the Role play of a chosen Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by


speaking/writing controlled assessment. Theme: sports and leisure

speaking/writing assessment of a chosen topic.

speaking topic. Write a web page to

promote a sports centre to Chinese-speaking visitors.

Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic. Page 160 of the Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample

Assessment Materials also covers this topic.


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13 Controlled Assessment Speaking/Writing Theme: sports and leisure

14 Chapter 2 Food and DrinkUnit 1: My favourite food and drink

Be able to talk about what they like eating and drinking.

Class survey to find out what’s the most favourite food and drink.

Chapter seven of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.

Unit three Book one of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.

15 Unit 2: Eating out Be able to talk about what food and drink are available and the price.

Be able to order food and drink at café or restaurant.

Be able to comment on the food and service of a restaurant .

Be able to talk about past experience of eating out.

Role play: one as customer, one as waiter or waitress.

Design a simple menu for a Chinese café or restaurant.


Lesson eight of ChinaSoft 你好 covers this topic. Lesson twenty-five of People’s Education Press 跟我学汉语

provides useful information on this topic. BBC Read Chinese online provide useful information on

this topic.

16 Unit 3: Healthy eating Be able to express opinions on healthy and unhealthy eating.

Be able to talk about healthy lifestyle.

Give students a list of different eating habits, pair work or group discussion to decide which ones are healthy and which ones are unhealthy.


Unit three of Book three 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.

17 Unit 4: Food and festivals

Be able to talk about festivals and festival food.

Match the typical food with the festival.


Unit eight of Book two of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.


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18 Chapter 3 Where I liveUnit 1: My house

Be able to talk about types of houses and rooms and house items.

Be able to describe people’s homes.

Draw an dream house and label the rooms and furniture.

Read house renting advertisement and answer questions.

Chapter five of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.

Unit two of Book two and Unit three of Book three of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides useful information on this topic.

Lesson three of ChinaSoft 你好 2 provides useful information this topic.

Unit five of Book three 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.

19 Unit 2: Local amenities Be able to talk about places of public interest.

Be able to say what they have in their local area, how far/close these places are to their house.

Role play: one as a Chinese student just arrive in the UK, one as a home student, the Chinese student asks where she/he can go for shopping, sports, money etc, the home student explains.



20 Unit 3: Where things are

Be able to talk about the location of different places.

Role play carried on from previous unit, the Chinese student asks where things are, the home student explains.


21 Unit 4: Directions Be able to give directions.

Students tell directions according to the picture given.

Play in two groups, group A have one student go out of the classroom, group B hide an item, the student comes in, group A have to tell




directions in Chinese to direct the student find the item; then group B does the same, see which group find the item quicker.


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22 Unit 5: At the local tourist information centre

Be able to tell what places of interest their area has and how to get there.

Be able to tell information on special festival event/exhibition.

Role play: one as a Chinese tourist, one as a UK student doing work experience at a local tourist information centre.

Page 65/86 of the Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials provide useful information on this topic.

23 Chapter 4 Out and aboutUnit 1: Weather

Be able to describe the weather.

Be able to talk about different activities depending on the weather, using if…then 要是… 就… structure.

Look at the weather map and describe the weather.

Talk about what they will do this weekend depending on the weather.

Chapter six of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.

Unit two of Book two 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.

24 Unit 2: Transport Be able to talk about different means of transport.

Be able to suggest what modes of transport to use for different places and give reasons.

Imagine the class is going to France for a school trip, discuss what means of transport to use and why.


25 Unit 3: Booking tickets and hotel

Be familiar with transactional topics such as booking train tickets, flight tickets and accommodation.

Role play of a receptionist at a hotel and a customer booking accommodation.

Listen to the conversation between a flight ticket agent and a customer, complete the information form.



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26 Unit 4: Holiday activities

Be able to talk about past holiday experiences and future holiday plans.

Be able to express opinions on different activities.

Role play: one as teacher, the other as student, ask and answer questions about holidays.

Pair work: each student brings in a picture taken on a holiday and asks and answers questions about each other’s picture to fill in the information table: such as: — When is it taken? — Where is it? — What were you doing? etc.



27 Unit 5: Countries and places

Be able to say different countries and famous places in China and UK.

Be able to talk extensively about holiday experiences in certain places.

Class survey for find out how many people have been to those countries and places.

Unit three of Book one of 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.


Unit eight of Book two of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides information on this topic.

28 Prepare for controlled assessment Theme: Travel and tourism

Get ready for the assessment.

Role play of a chosen speaking topic.

Design a web page to promote your city to Chinese-speaking visitors.



29 Controlled assessment speaking and writing — Travel and tourism


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30 Chapter 5: Media and cultureUnit 1: TV programme

Be able to talk about different TV programmes.

Be able to talk about their favourite TV programmes in more depth.

Provide students with a list of programme: 音乐节目、新闻节目、足球比赛、电视剧 etc , students do a class survey to find out their favourite programme.

Describe a programme in Chinese and students guess what programme it is.

Chapter four of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.

31 Unit 2: Internet and blogs

Be able to talk about different things they do on the internet.

Be able to give opinions about different activities on the internet.

Pair work: interview each other and find out what they do on the internet.

Provide a list of activities students can do on the internet and students provide a positive or negative comment on each activity.


32 Unit 3: Film and music Be able to talk about their favourite film and music and give opinions.

Be able to talk about film stars and famous singers/musicians.

Write about an experience of going to the cinema or concert.


33 Unit 4: Interview Celebrities

Be familiar with time phrases when talking about people’ life: 小时候、长大后、十年前、现在 etc.

Be able to talk about

Listen to interviews of celebrities and answer questions.

Students ask each other how good they are at different things.



how good they are at different things.


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34 Unit 5: Fashion and clothes

Be able to say different colours and types of clothes, including school uniform.

Be able to say what is trendy 流行 .

Be able to use adjectives to describe it: 长、短、肥、瘦、大、小、好看 etc.

Matching — provide descriptions of different clothing, students find the right pictures to match them.

Sorting out my wardrobe: teacher can bring different clothes in, telling the students that they are from the teacher’s wardrobe and asking the class to help her/him to clear the wardrobe, the class vote whether the teacher should keep it or give it away, give reasons.

Chapter eight of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.

Unit 4 of Chapter two of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers topic on school uniform.

Lesson four of ChinaSoft 你好 2 provides useful information this topic.

Unit one of Book two 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.

35 Prepare for controlled assessment Theme: Media and culture

Be ready for the speaking/writing assessment of a chosen topic.

Prepare a presentation about ‘Me and the internet’.

Write an article about ‘My Favourite TV Programme’.

Page 74 and 159 of the Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials provide useful information on this topic.

36 Controlled assessment speaking and writing: Media and culture

37 Revise for end of year test.

38 End of year test: Listening and Reading.


Year 11

Year 11Week



1 Chapter 1: EducationUnit 1: School subjects

Be able to talk about their favourite subjects and less favourite subjects and give opinions.

Be able to say what they are good at and what they are not.

Class survey to find out the most favourite subject of the class.

Write about ‘My Favourite Subject’.

Chapter two of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.

2 Unit 2: My school — where things are

Be able to talk about different places in school and their locations.

Be able to describe their own school.

Listen and label the school map.

Read the description of a school and answer questions.


Unit five of Book two 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.

3 Unit 3: My school day Be able to say what subjects they have each day.

Be able to say different lessons, duration of lessons and other school activities.

Listen and fill in the timetable.

Look at Lili’s timetable and talk about her school day.


4 Unit 4: Compare schools in China with schools in UK

Be able to use comparison word 比 to compare schools in two different countries.

Look at the timetable of a student in China and that of a student in UK, talk about similarities and differences.


5 Chapter 2: WorkUnit 1: Different jobs and working places

Be able to talk about different jobs.

Be able to say where people work.

Match pictures with Chinese characters.

Write about their family members jobs and working places.

Chapter nine of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) covers this topic.

Unit six of Book one of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides useful information on this topic.

Unit four of Book One of 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides


useful information on this topic.6 Unit 2: Work experience Be able to talk about

work experience. Be able to use past

tense to talk about past experiences.

Pair work: interview each other about work experience.


Unit one of Book Three of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides useful information on this topic.


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7 Unit 3: Ideal jobs and future plans

Be able to talk about ideal jobs and what they want to do in the future.

Be able to explain why they think they are deal jobs.

Group work: give each group a list of jobs and ask them to number the top ten jobs in the UK, they have to give brief reasons for each job they choose, the group that is closest to the answer is the winner.

Class survey of ‘future plans’ to find out how many want to go to universities.

Class survey of ‘what I want to be in the future’ to find out what jobs the class want to do.


Unit six of Book one of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides useful information on this topic.

Unit six of Book 4 of the People’s Education Press Learn Chinese With Me (人民教育出版社跟我学汉语第四册) provides useful information on this topic.

8 Unit 4: Personalities and skills for jobs

Be able to talk about personalities more extensively.

Be able to talk about their strength and weakness.

Student answer a personality questionnaire to find out their personality type.

Student fill in a chart about their strength and weakness in terms of skills for jobs.

Chapter nine of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) provide useful information on this topic.


9 Unit 5: Job advertisements

Be familiar with job advertisement phrases and format.

Be able to read and understand different job advertisement in Chinese.

Read different job advertisement and answer questions.

Match the description of each person’s skill and personality with the proper job advertisement.





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10 Unit 6: Job application and CV

Be able to do simple job interviews.

Be able to write a simple CV.

Be able to write a simple job application letter.

Student write their own CV.

Scramble sentences of a job application and ask students to re-order them.

Students write their own job application.

Role play of a job interview.



Unit six of Book 4 of the People’s Education Press Learn Chinese With Me (人民教育出版社跟我学汉语第四册) provides useful information on this topic.

11 Prepare for controlled assessment for speaking and writing, theme Business, work and employment.

Be ready for the speaking/ writing assessment of a chosen topic.

Role play of a job interview.

Write a simple CV. Write a simple job

application letter.

Chapter nine of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) provides useful information on this topic.

Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials provides useful information.

12 Chapter 3: LifestyleUnit 1: Clothes and accessories

Be able to talk about clothes and fashion more extensively.

Be able to describe people’s appearance in more details.

Match pictures with the description of models.

Draw the model according to the description.

Write description according to the pictures.

Find the robber: divide the class into groups, each group has a ‘victim’, who is shown a picture of a ‘robber’, the rest of the group member have to ask the ‘victim’ questions about what the ‘robber’ looks like, what the ‘robber’

Chapter eight of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) provides useful information on this topic.

Unit one of Book Two of 三联书店（香港）轻松学汉语 provides useful information on this topic.


wears to find the ‘robber’ among a group of pictures.


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13 Unit 2: Healthy living Be able to talk about how people keep fit and try to live a healthy life.

Students do a healthy living questionnaire to find out how healthy their lifestyles are.

Give students text about how Chinese people keep fit and answer questions.

Interview each other to find out what they do to keep fit.

Chapter three of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) provides useful information on this topic.

Unit five of Book three of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides useful information on this topic.

14 Unit 3: Different lives —compare teenage in China with teenage in UK

Be able to talk about similarities and differences.

Give students text about a typical teenager’s life in China and in UK, students fill in a table about similarities and differences.

Chapter four of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) provides useful information on this topic.

15 Unit 4: Celebrations Be able to talk about how people celebrate different occasions.

Be able to talk about main festivals in China and UK.

Match the activities with the occasions.

Choose one occasion (birthday, Christmas etc.) and talk in details how students celebrate it.

Unit 8 of Book 2 and 3 of People’s Education Press 快乐汉语 (or British Council Chinese for GCSE) provides useful information on this topic.

Unit 13 of Book 2 of Higher Education Press Chengo Chinese (高等教育出版社乘风汉语第二册) provide useful information on this topic.

16 Chapter 4: Customer service and transactionsUnit 1: At the shop — product and service information

Be familiar with transactional conversations used in shops.

Role play: one act as shop assistant and one as customer.

Listen to conversations between customer and shop assistant in different scenarios (such as buying things, exchanging goods, returning faulty goods etc) and answer questions.

Chapter eight of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) provides useful information on this topic.

Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials provide useful information on this topic


Year 11Week



17 Unit 2: At the cinema/ theatre/library

Be able to ask and tell information on films/plays, starting times, prices etc.

Role play: one as customer, one as someone selling tickets, one asks information regarding certain films/play/books, the other gives information.

Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials provide useful information on this topic.

18 Unit 3: At the hotel Be able to talk about booking accommodation and room cervices.

Match the customer’s questions with the receptionist’s answers.

Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials provide useful information on this topic.

19 Unit 4: At the airport/train station

Be able to ask and talk about flight/train information.

Be able to understand simple announcement at the train station or airport.

Listen and answer questions.

Role play: one as customer, one as someone works at the information desk.

Chapter six of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese (published by Pearson & SSAT) provides useful information on this topic.

20 Unit 5: Complains and dealing with problems

Be familiar with transactional conversation on complains and dealing.

Listen to a conversation between a customer and a receptionist at a hotel and answer the questions.

Page 32 of the Edexcel GCSE in Chinese Sample Assessment Materials provide useful information on this topic.

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