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Chinese evening class to Irish school teachers from January 2022 (FREE)

Dear Principals and Teachers,

We are pleased to share that following the launch of the government’s Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017-2026, the UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland and the Irish Institute for Chinese Studies at UCD have developed the first and second in a series of books and resources aimed at teaching the Junior Cycle Short Course. 

Following our successful development of the Teaching Pack for Chinese Culture and Language for Transition Year in 2012, the UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland and the Irish Institute for Chinese Studies at UCD have been offering a Professional Diploma and a Masters in Teaching Chinese Language and Culture for school teachers since 2014. All these efforts are laying the path for Leaving Cert Chinese in the near future.

It is our pleasure to announce that the UCD Confucius Institute will continue to offer Chinese evening class to Irish school teachers from January 2022. 

Please feel free to share this email with anyone who might be interested in the course.

This is a 15-hour evening course designed for:
· Teachers who are interested in studying the Professional Diploma in Teaching Chinese Language and Culture, but have no previous learning experience of Chinese.
· Teachers who have no previous learning experience of Chinese, and are interested in tasting the language.

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
·Handle a variety of communicative topics, such as self-introduction, family, hobby, weather, food, shopping, date & time, numbers, daily routine, etc.;
·Start building up language capacity to teach simple and basic Chinese words or phrases to pupils;
·Lay a solid foundation for further study of Chinese language.

Time
The Class will run from Januaryto March 2022, 1.5 hours per week 18.30-20.00, for 10 weeks. School holiday calendar will be followed.

	Class on Tuesdays	Class on Wednesdays	Class on Thursdays
Term 1
January	11th, 18th, 25th	12t, 19th, 26th	13th,20th, 27th
February	1st,8th,15th	2nd,9th,16th	3rd,10th,17th
March	1st,8th,22nd,29th	2nd,9th,23rd,30th	3rd, 10th,24th,31st

Venue 
online

Course Fees
FREE (from January to March, for 10 weeks, 15 hours)   **Limited places available.**

Registration
To secure your place, please visit the link to complete registration before 5thJanuary 2022:
  https://forms.gle/ptrbLM3xgaQ1nXUZA

If you wish to continue the class after the first term, there will be a second term from April to June 2022, for 10 weeks.

We look forward to working with you to promote Chinese language and culture in Ireland. 

Please contact Programme Coordinator: Ms Lirong Peng via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. should you have any queries or require any further information about our programmes.

We wish you all a festive holiday season and a peaceful year of the tiger in 2022.