School Workshops

We provide workshops for schools who want to give their students a short exposure to either Chinese as a foreign language, or Chinses the culture incorporatingdd:

Basic communication phrases

Chinese songs ( for younger children )

Chinese calligraphy

Chinese kung fu legends


Our workshop classes run for between 45 minutes, and 90 minutes depending on the age of the children.

Age	Class length	Content	Concepts
Age 6   -  8	45 Minutes	5 Characters One song 2 Basic phrases Calligraphy of basic characters Legend	Chinese is not an alphabet. Animal styles of kung fu movement
Age 9   - 12	60 Minutes	10 Characters two Songs 3 Basic phrases Calligraphy Legend with cultural context	Geographical location of china. Tonality of language.
Age 13 - 15	90 Minutes	15 Characters Calligraphy with Stroke ordering Chinese Kung fu names Legend with discussion	Cultural comparisons with china 2 person interraction
Age  16 +	120 Minutes	20 Characters Chinese / Western history Chinese kung fu health aspects	Grammatical comparison Linguistic Stereotypical explanations 2 person flow and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi concepts

The workshops can have between 8 and 30 students at one time.

The material covered in the workshop is taken directly from the Lingua Kung fu text books with the younger children taking a more playful approach and the older students expected to pick up some core concepts of the lingua kungfu program.

A workshop may be run in a normal classroom, or in a gymnasium. A gymnasium allows a greater emphasis on the kung fu.