The Third Chinese Bridge
US High School Student Chinese
Speech Contest
Date: April 19th, 2008
(Please see detailed schedule at the end.)
Place: UMass Boston Student
Center, Room 3445, 3rd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts
02125
Registration Deadline:
March 6, 2008
Please contact Baifeng Sun if
you have any questions.
TEL: 617-287-7291 Email:
baifeng.sun@umb.edu
Sponsor:
The Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban)
Co-sponsors:
The University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute at Boston
The Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools
(CLASS)
Registration and Rules
1.
Registration begins on February 25th and ends on March 6th,
2008. The Application Form must include a student photo (2in x 2in / Color),
student signature as well as a parent or guardian's signature.
2.
Each participant is
required to mail the following materials:
1) the recorded and labeled audiotape (no longer than five minutes)
2) the transcript (in English and Chinese) of the audiotape
3) the complete Application Forms (in English and Chinese)
Download the
Application Forms:
Adobe Acrobat
PDF Version
MS Word
Version
Please place all required materials in one envelop and mail to the address
below by March 6th, 2008.
Mailing Address:
Baifeng Sun
University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute at Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125-3393
Incomplete
applications will not be processed. No registration will be accepted after
March 6th, 2008.
3.
Each school may enter up
to two students for the contest. Individual schools should decide how their
participant(s) will be selected (e.g. holding a preliminary school-wide
speech contest).
4.
Heritage students already
speaking Mandarin or other dialects before taking Chinese in school are not
eligible.
5.
There will be first place,
second place winners and honorable mentions. All participants will receive a
Certificate of Participation.
6.
Based on the results of
the preliminary review, finalists will be selected and invited to Boston to
compete on-site. The invitation notice will be sent out by March 28th,
2008, together with further arrangements.
Finalists must be present on-site to compete for the top places on April 19th,
2008.
7.
The topic of the speech
should be related to the study of Chinese. Students are free to develop the
content based on their own language learning experiences. The speech must be
between three to five minutes in length. At the on-side contest, five
questions will be asked immediately after the delivery of speech.
8.
The contest is for high
school students only. There will be three groups:
l
Group I for Chinese
levels 1&2
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Group II for Chinese levels 3&4
l
Group III for Chinese levels 5 and above
The Registration Deadline is March 6th, 2008.
Full
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