Chinese Language for All, in Dhaka

Grammar I:
• Emphasize Chinese sentence order (put time and location words in front of the verb—Time+Location+Action)
• Emphasize measure words (一杯，一个，difference between 一星期 and 一个星期)
• Past and future with time words “zuo tian昨天” & “ming tian明天”
• Question words: ma, shenme, nar, shenme defang, shenme shihou, zenme, ji, duoshao.
• Chinese sentences with two words (Subject + verb1+verb2)
• Emphasize possessive word ‘de’
• Learn a large variety of sentence patterns according to textbook.
• Focus on sentence patterns instead of grammar (the importance of memorizing sentence patterns in learning Chinese)

Grammar II:
• Basic sentences with to be “shi是”, to have “you有” and to do “zuo做”
• Sentences with stative verb (hen, 我很好)
• Past, and the situation has changed with a functional marker “le”
• Pronouns – subject “wo我”, plural form 我们，你们， 他们
• possessive word “de的”
• Auxiliary words e.g. “xiang 想”
• Word order in sentences (Chinese sentence orders, difference between English and Chinese)
• Sentence forms – statement, question and negative
• Measure words (e.g. a cup of tea = “yi bei cha” 一杯茶 )
• Particles with “ba 吧” “ma吗”