OPDS Chinese Study Tour
Professional Qualified Mandarin Teachers and Chinese Partner Students take you through a life long experience of China!
Formed in 1996, the company has over ten years’ experience of doing business in China. Through our well established offices in Beijing and London, OPDS offers you a wide range of programmes in the areas of training and educational tours. The unique experience you will gain will enhance your life tremendously.
The Chinese Study Tour is based in Beijing and has a two week core programme, which you can extend to three weeks. It caters for three levels of Chinese (elementary, intermediate and advanced), to enable students of similar abilities to be grouped together for teaching purposes. A typical three week programme is shown via the menu option on the left. Class sizes will be kept to a maximum of 10 students.
Programme
General Chinese
General Chinese lessons are offered four mornings per week in Week 1 and five mornings per week in weeks 2 and 3. Students concentrate on all 4 major components of speaking, listening, reading and writing. Activities are designed to improve fluency, pronunciation and grammatical accuracy.
Academic Chinese
For students who are studying Chinese as an academic course in high school or university, up to three afternoons per week can be devoted specifically to their examination needs, either in a group setting or on a 1:1 basis. These classes incur a small additional charge.
Teachers and Teaching Materials
Only qualified and professionally trained teachers are recruited on to the programme so that maximum benefit can be obtained from the classroom time. Some teachers have experience in teaching GCSE Chinese. Only Chinese is allowed to be spoken while the student is on the school premises.
Each student will receive appropriate teaching materials commensurate with their level of Chinese that will be used for teaching purposes.
Activities
The OPDS Chinese Study Tour specifically contains a wide variety of sporting, social and cultural activities that will appeal to the group at large. On the first day in school every student will give a brief introduction of themselves so that they can identify others in the group with whom they may wish to make friends outside the classroom.
Age Range
The flexible programme can cater for students from age 9 upwards.
Management Control and Communication
The programme is managed on a daily basis by the OPDS Beijing office, who have Chinese staff fluent in English and Mandarin. These staff report to OPDS Head Office which is managed by Sunny Jiang, to whom any questions can be addressed at any time. Sunny can be reached on +44 (0)20 8660 8869 or +44 (0)7808 400 698 or by e-mail on info@opds.co.uk.
For further details about any aspect of our Chinese in China service, please contact us using the form below.