Hello everybody. My name is Ailin Ding, the teacher of Green Class where most students are lower-grade primary school children aged between 6 and 10. All of them are from Chinese background (mandarin or other Chinese dialects), with a certain level of Chinese listening and speaking capability.
Teaching is conducted in Chinese and based on the systematic teaching of HanYu Pinyin, the basic strokes and simple Chinese characters, as well as daily conversation and the introduction of traditional Chinese culture. The objective is to grasp Pinyin and its spelling rules, write correct strokes and simple Chinese characters, which lays a good foundation for independent reading and writing. The three text books used are《汉语拼音 (HanYu PinYin)》,《汉语拼音练习册 (HanYuPinYin practice book》published by the Beijing Chinese Language Culture School and 《中文 (Zhong Wen)》published by the Jinan Chinese School.
Students are expected to understand and be able to use Pinyin of about 150 commonly used Chinese characters and related grammars when they complete their study in Green Class.