6-11 July 2020
UP Faculty of Tourism - Turistica
UTC timezone

 

SUMMER SCHOOL ON CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

FOR STUDENTS BETWEEN 8 AND 16 YEARS

 

When: 6TH to 11TH July, 2020

Where: UP Faculty of Tourism - Turistica, Portorož, Obala 11a

Options:

Whole-day course (€113.50 per participant per week) 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Half-day course (€ 60 per participant per week):

  1. morning session (8.30 – 11.30 am)

  2. afternoon session (12.30 – 4pm)

Registration deadline: 1st June, 2020

Number of participants: 20-25

Age: 8 – 16 years

 

The Confucius Classroom Koper at the University of Primorska (KUK UP) offers an immersion course into Chinese language and culture for young participants between 8 and 16 years of age.

You will be offered the chance to immerse into the Chinese culture by learning about the essential principles of the Chinese language and the core values of its culture. All the courses will be taught in a team teaching mode, led jointly by a Slovene sinologist and a Chinese teacher.

The work will be tailored so as to cater to the needs of groups of different age and abilities. Students with preliminary knowledge of Chinese language are also invited and will be placed in an advanced group.

The Chinese teachers will ensure that students gain a most authentic understanding of the Chinese culture, leading presentations and workshops on ancient and modern Chinese customs, lifestyles and values.

The sinologists and staff members of the Confucius classroom in Koper, University of Primorska, will ensure that students will be making good progress and feel comfortable.

 

The fee covers the following services:

- 14 hours of Chinese language course, which will include basic or advanced level of spoken and written Chinese language.

- 8 hours of presentations about Chinese culture with lectures on several topics: the clay soldiers, the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven, the Gobi Desert and Takla Makan, Chinese painting and calligraphy, mythological and real animals (panda, dragon, monkey).

- 8 hours of workshops on Chinese culture (a practical demonstration of traditional arts and crafts: masks, calligraphy, painting, noodles, origami, and knots).

- In your leisure time, you can also learn about the Chinese culture by watching some Chinese cartoons and films.

 

Daily time-table:

8.30-9.00

Taiji exercise

9.00-10.30

Language course

10.30-10.45

break

10.45-11.30

Songs & rhymes

11.30 -12.30

Lunch break

12.30- 13.30

Individual activities: Games, films, cartoons

13.30-14.15

Cultural presentations

14.14-14.30

break

14.30-16.00

workshops

 

 

For further information, please contact us on tel. no: 05 61 17 688 or 031 381 788 or write to us at: kuk_up@upr.si


 

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UP Faculty of Tourism - Turistica
Obala 11a, Portorož, Slovenija
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