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Amity Young Adult

Program海外青年志愿者项目

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Facts of Young Adult Program

• One or two semesters• Teach oral English for 12-14 class periods per

week (one class period lasts for 45 min)• Learn Chinese: both intensive course in Nanjing

Normal University and weekly lessons given by teachers in the volunteers’ schools

• Experience Chinese culture and life style• Build friendship and cross-cultural understanding

between young people in China and overseas.

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What are in YAP?

1. Orientation in Nanjing

2. Service and learning in schools

3. Visits and mid-term meeting by Amity

4. Evaluation and debriefing

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Orientation in Nanjing

• Also know as Summer Teacher Program (STP)

• Introduction on YAP• Intensive Chinese course in Nanjing

Normal University• Lectures Chinese Culture• Training on TESOL• Sight Seeing

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Teaching practice in orientation, 2012

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Lecture on Chinese Calligraphy

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Service and learning in schools

First class- Choosing an English name by one volunteer in 2012/13 program

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Service and learning in schools

Oral English ClassBy Amity Staff during mid-term visit in Gansu Province

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Volunteers and their friends

Paly basketball with professionals

10Calligraphy practicing

By one volunteer

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Volleyball Night

Amity German Team vs. Chinese Teacher Team

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Travels around China during holidays

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The winter holiday travel plan shared by one volunteer

― 01-01 until 01-03: Xiahe (Gansu)― 01-04 until 01-08: Lanzhou (Gansu)― 01-09 until 01-11: Xi’an (Shănxi)― 01-12: Pingyao (Shanxi)― 01-13 until 01-16: Beijing― 01-17: Shanghai― 01-18 until 01-19: Huang Shan (Anhui)― 01-20 until 01-25: Yichang (Hubei), Yangtze, Chongqing― 01-26 until 01-28: Zhangjiajie, Wulingyuan (Hunan)― 01-29 until 01-30: Dehang (Hunan)― 01-31 until 02-02: Fenghuang (Hunan)― 02-03: Guilin, Dazhai (Guangxi)― 02-04 until 02-06: Yangshuo (Guangxi)― 02-07 until 02-09: Kunming, Yuanyang (Yunnan)― 02-10 until 02-13: Lijiang, Hutiaoxia (Yunnan)― 02-14: Chengdu (Sichuan)― 02-15 until 02-18: Jiuzhaigou (Sichuan)• Starting date of spring semester: 02-24

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A page from a

quarter report

- by Christina

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Pictures of QILIAN Mountains can be seen from Jiuquan where there are 4 schools we are working with now

taken by one Swiss Volunteer

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