82 lehigh valley chinese school HORIZONS FOR YOUTH | leHIgH ValleY CHIneSe SCHOOl mlP 8 Designed for students who have completed MLP7, we will learn to write and/or recognize more commonly used Chinese characters and words. At this level, students will enrich their ability of reading skills. Particularly, the students are expected to significantly improve their writing skills. They are expected to write comprehensive articles in Chinese and touch more Chinese Culture and Thoughts. The course is designed for children who grow up in US but has exposure to Chinese speaking environment at home. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 9:30 - 11:30 AM* MAIN/CNTR Wang Course: HfYHX110 fee: $195.00 BiaoZhun ZhouWen 1 The course will teach beginning level Chinese including both Chinese words and Pinyin. It fits the beginning level students who like to learn both Chinese words and Pinyin at the same time or need the help of Pinyin to learn Chinese words. It may also serve as a transitional step before entering MaLiPing 1. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 9:30 - 11:30 AM* MAIN/CNTR Hou Course: HfYHX112 fee: $195.00 BiaoZhun ZhouWen 2 For students who have completed BiaoZhun ZhouWen 1. The course will teach beginning level Chinese including both Chinese words and Pinyin. It fits the beginning level students who like to learn both Chinese words and Pinyin at the same time or need the help of Pinyin to learn Chinese words. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 9:30 - 11:30 AM* MAIN/CNTR Collings Course: HfYHX113 fee: $195.00 BiaoZhun ZhouWen 3 Designed for students who have two years of Chinese learning. Students will use the third textbook of Standard Chinese - Revised Edition, a Workbook A and a Workbook B, and a CD-ROM. Throughout the books, English is used as an aid to learn Chinese. All lessons are transcribed into Pinyin. Students will learn a basic knowledge of 193 Chinese characters, 228 words and expressions, and 18 basic sentences. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 9:30 - 11:30 AM* MAIN/CNTR Wang Course: HfYHX114 fee: $195.00 BiaoZhun ZhouWen 4 Designed for students who have three years of Chinese learning. Students will use the fourth textbook of Standard Chinese - Revised Edition, a Workbook A and a Workbook B, and a CD-ROM. Throughout the books, English is used as an aid to learn Chinese. All lessons are transcribed into Pinyin. Students will learn a basic knowledge of 299 Chinese characters, 398 words and expressions, and 30 basic sentences. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 9:30 - 11:30 AM* MAIN/CNTR Cerbone Course: HfYHX115 fee: $195.00 BiaoZhun ZhouWen 8 Designed for students who have completed Level 7, we will learn to use 167 commonly used Chinese characters, 467 commonly used words and 150 polysemous words. At this level, students will enrich their ability of reading skills by reading Chinese Reading Book which contains 60 articles. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 9:30 - 11:30 AM* MAIN/CNTR Lu Course: HfYHX119 fee: $195.00 Basic Chinese I Designed for the English speaking student who has little experience with the Chinese Language. This course will provide an introduction to the Chinese culture and basic language skills including the Chinese phonetic system, characters, phrases, sentence structure and frequently used conversation. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 9:30 - 11:30 AM* MAIN/CNTR Wang Course: HfYHX121 fee: $195.00 for individual $225.00 for parent/child Drawing and Painting — HuaXia Chinese School Students will learn to draw and paint animals, people, and things found in nature. We will work mainly with watercolors and acrylics to learn various painting techniques. We will also work with colored pencils, markers and pastels. For students ages 7 and older. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM* MAIN/CNTR Cerbone Course: HfYHX124 fee: $112.00 Chinese Speech and Debate This course will be focused on various public speaking skills in speech and debate. Throughout the fall semester, we will explore the various types of public speaking events, like declamation, humorous interpretation, dramatic interpretation, and extemporaneous speaking. In addition, there will be an introduction to different debate forms; Lincoln Douglass Debate and Public Forum Debate. We will give students opportunities to present one type of public speech during the semester. This speech could be either in English or in Chinese. During the spring semester, the team will move more into the Chinese Debate form to prepare for the HXSC tournament in April. Students will utilize their public speaking skills to aid them in their Chinese debates. This course is open to students from 4th grade and above. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM* MAIN/CNTR Li Course: HfYHX125 fee: $79.00 math Count This course is designed to prepare students in, or going into, middle school, for the National Mathcounts Competition held in the spring of every school year. Along with learning math concepts and gaining an immense amount of practice, students will learn tricks and techniques required to gain an edge in the competition. After competition, the course will also provide students going into high school with an in depth SAT and PSAT math preparation. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM* MAIN/CNTR Hou Course: HfYHX126 fee: $59.00 Traditional Chinese martial arts The goal of this class is to develop a balance of strength, flexibility, coordination, and power that provides a physical and mental challenge which leads to a healthy body and self-defense skills. The class will teach Chinese Shao-Lin basics and short forms and will lay a good foundation for further advancement in the second semester. SEC DATES AND TIMES CAMPUS/BUILDING INSTRUCTOR (2) Sat, Jan 12-May 4, 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM* MAIN/CNTR Ly Course: HfYHX127 fee: $59.00 Detailed step-by-step instruction guide to register for LifeLearn (See pg 32) Register online: northampton.edu/lifelearn The refund policy has changed: see page 3.
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