Lingua Kung fu

Teaching Material guidelines

The lingua kung fu teaching arc is an 8 year program which corresponds to the first level of university conversational chinese.

Age	Chinese Content	Mins chinese per week	Kung fu form		Mins kung fu per week
6-8	Monkey	20	San Zhan	Playing	40
7			Complex 1	Playing / block block for punch , straight punch
8			Warm up	Stick 1-7 movements, push hands , block block to hand grabs. Straight punch.
9	Static verb questions	30	Shr San Tai	2 man stick	40
10	Direct object adverb indirect object inverted sentences	30	Chuan xin jung	Push hands variations 1-10	40
11	Specified numbered and measured nouns equational sentences money and counting	40	Xiow chian	Bag work. Push hands variations 10 – 18	40
12	Auxiliary verb verb object compounds modificaiton of nouns : nounds and static verbs modification of nouns : by clauses	45	Da chian Bai Gun	Stick form	30
13	Existence and location motion and direction conveyance and purpose complete action with le	45	Da chian Bai Gun		30
14	Time when expressions – probability with ba co-verbs of interest , etc single and double le time spent compound verbs expressing manner	1 hour	Suan dao		30
15	The BA construction changed status and imminent action with le reading the clock supposition experientail suffix gwo	1 hour
16	Resultative compound verbs similarity and comparison separation and distance- degree of comparison seletion and inclusion-co-verbs of agent	2 hours

Children less than 8 years old at the beginning of the year shall not enter this program.

Prior to starting the syllabus an Introductury course will be given.

Children will ge grouped by age in the following way:

Age	Animal	Teaching methods	Expectations	Common European Framework Benchmark
6 - 8	Monkey	Songs, games	Preparatory chinese. Fixed sentence structure.	Pre
9 - 11	Tiger	Songs	Sentence structure with word break down. Reconstruction of sentence structure	C1
12 - 14	Crane		Improvisation	C1
15 / 16	None		None	C2

Where complex and simple character are different both shall be shown.
For complex characters, the component character should be taught first.
Vocabulary shall not be grouped for the sake of group ( e.g. teaching all the colors or groups of useless animals )
Historical character evolution shall be given for radicals.
For the introductary level chinese material shall be split between characters to be recognised, and chinese to be understood – i.e. It should not be necessary for all spoken characters to be written.
Vocabulary shall be selected based on either it's position in the frequency of words OR it's requirement to satisfy the above conditions ( e.g. Teaching of radicals ) OR because of particular pertinance to the kung fu.
For all material 3 levels of teaching will be given corresponding to monkey , tiger , crane level.
from Tiger level fluency drills and automatic vocab testing shall be used
All vocab lists shall be given in :
1. english
2. chinese ( traditional and simple )
3. spanish
Verbs shall be taught in order of priority in the correct order