Pipeline Programs
Nursery - Grade 6 Seamless Chinese Learning
The Young Learner Pipeline Programs are designed for students who wish to learn the Chinese language systematically or want to enter into international Chinese curricula. The programs are suitable for students from Nursery to Grade 6. The courses aim to help students build well-rounded Chinese language skills including listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will improve fundamental skills to help them build confidence in their everyday use of Chinese and succeed in school.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Build critical vocabulary base, critical Hanzi base, and strong reading skills
- Develop a strong understanding of the basic skills needed in the upcoming learning
- Laying the solid foundation for various future Chinese study paths
Nursery – PreK: Baby First Chinese
Sample class for Baby First Chinese
Early BB-birds
The class is for 2-3.5 years old toddlers. To hear and reproduce the critical sounds and tonal differences in Mandarin. The lesson is well structured with all kinds of activities. Baby learners will naturally absorb Mandarin through playing with theme-related toys, TPR (Total Physical Response) approaches, songs & rhymes, stories, and hands-on projects. After the Early BB-birds, all the words and phrases learned will be reviewed while will enrich the learners with more scenario sentences introduced and structured. More adjectives, verbs, and useful expressions will be introduced at a higher level class – the Smart BB-birds class.
Sunny BB-birds
The class is for the 3.5 -4.5 years old children. Mandarin Articulation Building up and Introducing basic Chinese characters recognition, picture book reading, and radical component & stem-character handwriting. The lesson is a carefully structured Chinese language class for early young learners. The entire new roadmap for Chinese language learning will be kicked off under the SREM theory and methodology. Kids will also be guided to do more role-play activities using longer phrases and learn how to ask questions in Mandarin. All types of teaching/learning aids and fun activities for young learners to be enriched Chinese learning. Theme-related songs & rhymes, stories, arts & crafts, and the total physical response approaches will be fully applied to enhance class performance. Click below Read More to see the Materials and learning aids used in the Baby First Chinese class.
Classes will use our own well-developed range “Baby First Mandarin 芽乐汉语”. There are 20 core units plus Baby Talk 芽芽学语 for children to learn in the class. Along with the class theme, the pictorial carton books, hands-on toys, and so on will be used for supporting the class instruction. The Montessori approaches will be adopted for facilitating little children’s Chinese language learning in class. Tips & advice for parents: Take-home materials include the workbook which shows the main taught content in the class. Guide the toddler to keep the bag and the workbook together can be built the identification for his or her Chinese learning. The sound files for the class will be sent through the registered email address. The sound files should be played outside the class as much as possible. It is encouraged to create a routine for listening (e.g. breakfast time, bedtime, bath time, in the car, etc.) during the day. Please do not test or force kids to repeat in Mandarin if they are not comfortable with it. As long as children have enough exposure to Mandarin, they will feel comfortable and start to be responsive to Mandarin. * It is suggested that a child who finishes Baby First Mandarin with no Mandarin background can sign up for courses My Fun Chinese (if has no Asian language background at home) and Inquiry of Chinese (if has Chinese language background). 
At this stage, it is important for toddlers to start to use the vocabulary they have learned. To listen and sing the rhymes they have learned. This practice should be done both in class and at home for well embedding the Chinese sounds.
PreK – Grade 6: My Fun Chinese & Inquiry of Chinese
For pre-K and elementary school learners, My Fun Chinese and Inquiry of Chinese programs are carefully designed and conducted using our well-designed and published textbooks and workbooks. The lessons start with an entirely new roadmap of Chinese language learning and are taught under the innovative SREM theory and methodology. All selective materials and fun activities are adopted for the young learners to enrich Chinese language learning. Theme-related songs & rhymes, stories, arts & crafts, and the Total Physical Response approaches will be fully applied for enhancing the class’s performance.
My Fun Chinese classes focus on Mandarin articulation foundation building up plus an introduction to the Chinese Characters Alphabet (CCA), Stem-radical characters, Stem-characters recognition, and basic handwriting. The class is 80-90% for listening and speaking practice v.s. 10-20% for written format recognition practice. The classes are full of dialogues, acting through theme songs, and theme stories’ role-play. Students learn how to form Hanzi (Chinese characters) by the CCA, Stem-radicals, and Stem-characters, and be familiarized with stroke orders.
Inquiry of Chinese lessons is enriched and extends the core content in My Fun Chinese, in the same learning
scope and sequence. Selectively picture books support reading for Chinese language comprehension, re-structuring phrases by understanding the context, and basic character writing. A normal class is 40-50% for oral practice v.s. 60-50% for the written practice. Picture book reading and regular writing homework are assigned for consolidation. Theme materials and supplementary Take-home materials include workbooks and handouts (in Mandarin, English, and Pinyin) to strengthen children’s Mandarin vocabulary and sentence structures. The sound files taught in class will be sent through the registered email address. The sound files should be played outside the class as much as possible. It is encouraged to create a routine for listening (e.g. breakfast time, bedtime, bath time, in the car, etc.) during the day. Tips & Advice for Parents Pathway for Stem Pipeline Program at Beijing Mandarin it is suggested that children with no Mandarin background should go through the basic courses, such as Early BB-birds (2-3.5 YO) and Smart BB-birds (3.5-4.5 YO) before they sign up for My Fun Chinese and Inquiry of Chinese courses.
The theme materials we are proud to offer the class our own well-developed fine material range My Fun Chinese and Inquiry of Chinese. The picture and leveled reading scheme are support materials for the core content thematic learning.
At this stage. It is important for students to start to use full sentences they have learned to respond to. This practice should be done both in class and at home. Therefore, we strongly encourage parents to review the content stated in the workbook with their kids. Instead of asking “What is this in Mandarin?” Parents should try to say “Zhe shi shen me?” in an examine tone.
Grade 6 – 8: My Smart Chinese
This is a carefully designed Chinese course for early teenagers. It is suggested that children with no Mandarin background should go through the Fundamental programs My Fun Chinese (for non-native speakers), Inquiry of Chinese (for near-native speakers), or workshops such as Chinese Language Kickoff, Daily Chinese Q&A or Chinese Phonetic, and so on before they sign up for the My Smart Chinese course.
My Smart Chinese
The course starts with an entirely new roadmap of Chinese language learning. The class will be taught under the SREM theory and methodology. All sorts of teaching and learning aids and interactive activities for young teen learners will enrich Chinese language learning. Theme-related text, fun stories, arts & crafts, and the total physical response approaches will be fully applied to enhance the class’s performance. Chinese Writing Starting will be introduced at a later stage in the course, such as Describing pictures in speaking and writing, memo, short email and stories, and so on. The MSC course is head for the international Chinese examination course like I/GCSE, SAT, and so on.
My Smart Chinese – Beyond
The course will be more sophisticated for in-depth language learning and intercultural understanding. Chinese Writing Sliding will be along with the course, such as free and creative writing, reflection, and so on. The MSC-beyond course is head for the Higher International Chinese examination like AP, IBDP, and so on Theme materials and supplementary Tips & advice for Parents:
BM’s self-designed teaching and learning range will be used as the theme of teaching materials. Meanwhile, our teaching team constantly gets all sorts of references and past papers from our rich library, other well-known publishers, and institutes for the related materials so that we can keep our courses at a good standard of performance.
At this stage, the most important is the learner’s self-discipline. As parents, your close attention to your child’s learning process and progress will be very helpful and awarding. We would suggest parents do the following.