A journey to China

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A Journey to China
Teacher Management Department

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About China
A taste of Chinese Culture
Chinese Students & Education
Simple Chinese

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01
About China

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9.6 million square
kilometers.
Borders 14
countries on land.

5.

56 ethnic groups
Han
91.51%

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Languages spoken by
the other ethnic groups.
Over 80 spoken
languages;
Over 30 written
languages.
Chinese

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There are different
dialects among
people who speak
Chinese.
Mandarin is the
lingua franca in China.

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Famous cities in China
北京
Beijing

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Famous cities in China
上海
Shanghai

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Famous cities in China
杭州 Hangzhou

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Famous cities in China
广州 Guangzhou

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Famous cities in China
成都 Chengdu

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02 Chinese Students & Education

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Nine-year Compulsory Education
About 4 years old.
Kindergarten
(usually 3 years)
Elementary School
(6 years)
Job-hunting
Doctor’s Degree
(it depends)
Master’s Degree
(it depends)
Middle School
(3 years)
High School
(3 years)
Job-hunting
University
(4 years for Bachelor's Degree)

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Kindergarten
Simple math
Drawing
Simple Chinse and
nursery songs

16.

Kindergarten
Bakery
Chinese Checkers
English

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Elementary School
Music
Drawing/Painting
P.E.
Chinese
Math
English

18.

Elementary School
Class Meeting
Traffic safety;
Food safety;
Self-protection;
Manners;
Sanitation
…

19.

Afterschool curriculum
Calligraphy
Painting
Piano
Coding
Robot

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Elementary School
Easily attractive to
new stuff;
Like learning more
than being taught;
Like talking and
moving around;
Young and active;
Poor self-control;
Curious but
sometimes hold
resentment;
Grade 1
Can’t focus for a
long time;
Have trouble with
abstract concept;
Grade 2
Grade 6
Easily get
distracted;
Grade 5
Extensive interests;
Love playing
games;
Grade 4
Similar to Grade 4;
Similar to Grade 3;
Can focus longer
than 20 min;
Can focus about 20
min;
Always seek for
fairness and justice;
Like being praised
a lot;
Need motivations
during class;
Grade 3
Sensitive about
some negative
comments;
More grown up
than Grade 5 in
every aspect;
Need to be guided
by the teachers to
develop innovation
thinking;
Need to be guided
to do comparison
and analysis
reading during
class;

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Middle School & High School
Chinese/Math/English…
Geography/Chemistry/Biology/Physics…

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Middle School & High School
Getting further
education in China.
Looking for a job after
graduating from middle
school.
Study abroad.

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Chinese vs Western
• There are usually 30-60 students in
each class;
• The class is usually small, ranging from
3 students to 15;
• Focus on learning the fact and
knowledge;
• Focus more on the ability of thinking
and analyzing things independently;
• Extensive;
• Intensive;
• Frequently asked questions from
teachers:
- What is it?
- Where/when did it happen?
- Who did this?
• Frequently asked questions from
teachers:
- How did happen?
- Why did it happen?
• Students are trained to learn basic
learning skills, the ability of thinking
logically and how to perform better in
different tests and exams.
• Students are trained to be
independent and responsible, to learn
the ability to adapt to the society, and
to achieve self-realization.

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Chinese vs Western
For most Chinese parents, they still believe that the education their kids
receive in schools are the most efficient. IT TAKES TIME to gradually change
their ideas to make them realize that there are differences between the
education during China and western countries, that there are different ways
to learn things.
Compromise.
In your class, please try to stick to our curriculum. Even if you want to make
extension, still focus on the lesson topic and cover the key words, sentences
or grammar points.

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03 A taste of Chinese Culture

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Major Traditional festivals
All the Chinese traditional festivals
are based on the traditional lunisolar
calendar which is created according
to the change of the moon phases.
The dates of the traditional festivals are fixed
if it’s the Lunisolar Calendar but varies every
year if it’s the Gregorian calendar we use
everyday.
For example, the Spring Festival in 2018 is
February on the Gregorian calendar.
Schools and companies usually give several days off during those traditional festivals.

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Major Traditional festivals
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), January 1st of the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar.
(Usually during January or February Gregorian Calendar.)
Family reunion.
Giving and receiving Hongbao.
Celebrating with fireworks.

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Major Traditional festivals
Mid-Autumn Festival, August 15th of the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar.
(Usually during September or October Gregorian Calendar.)
Eating a reunion dinner.
Eating some Yue bing
(mooncake).
Flying lanterns and worshipping
the moon (In some places).

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Major Traditional festivals
Dragon Boat Festival, May 5th of the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar.
(Usually during May or June of the Gregorian Calendar.)
Eating Zong zi (Sticky
rice dumplings).
Wearing perfume
pouches.
Dragon Boat Racing
(in some places).
Hanging Chinese
Mugwort and Calamus.

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Major Traditional festivals
Tomb Sweeping Day,
on the first day of the fifth solar term of the Chinese Lunisolar Calendar
(Usually during May or June of the Gregorian Calendar.)
Tomb sweeping, to
honor the ancestors.
Spring outing.
Eating Qing tuan (sweet
green sticky rice ball).

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Losing face
Unlike most of the westerners, most of the Chinese
people don’t give suggestions or share their
opinions directly because they think it might make
the people they talk to ‘lose their face’ if it’s not
praise. They usually express it in a not obvious way.
See more information about ‘Face’ in Chinese culture by clicking the following link:
https://chinaculturecorner.com/2013/10/10/face-in-chinese-business/

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Some fun traditions and taboos
You shouldn't offer to share a pear with your Chinese partner and cut it into two halves, as
it suggests separation.
You should stay away from expressing anything which is connected to loss of life in the
pleased situation.
You should not open up a present in front the giver, which is not a polite action.
The Chinese names are usually household name first, then the given name. Brides in China
usually do not adopt their husband’s surnames.
Don't write anyone’s name with red ink or ball pen, because words in red were used to
sentence a person to death in ancient China.

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Some fun traditions and taboos
Remember when entering any home in China that you need to always take off your shoes.
The number 4 is rarely used as the floor number in buildings or elevators because it could
be easily related to death in Chinese.
Don’t leave the chopsticks standing straight up because people usually do that when
worshipping ancestors.
Men should never wear a green hat because wearing a green hat means that man’s wife
has been unfaithful to him.
Men should never wear a green hat because wearing a green hat means that man’s wife
has been unfaithful to him.

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04 Simple Chinese

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Hello!
Ni hao!
Good morning. / Good afternoon. / Good evening.
Zao shang hao. / xia wu hao. / wan shang hao.
What’s your name?
Ni jiao shen me ming zi?
Bye!
Zai jian!
See you next time!
Xia ci jian!
Some commonly used Simple
Chinese to help you build
rapport with your students
more easily.

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Thank you!
Teacher Management Department