MS Chinese Guide

● Use Total Physical Response to review Chinese characters and calendar vocabulary. (eg. hold up the character for Monday 星期一 ) . ● Group students to allow opportunity for them to practice speaking Chinese. ● Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters (eg.How old are you? I am … years old. What date is today? Today is…When is your birthday? My birthday is … What is your phone number … My phone number is ... 你几 岁？ 我 ... 岁。 今天是几月几日？今天是 .. 月 .. 日。 你的生日是几月几日？我的生日是 ... 月 ... 日。你的 电话 是多少？我的 电话 是 .... 。 ). ● Read simple notes of introduction or information on a form relating to name and age. ● Ask and answer questions about personal information such as age, birthday, and phone number. ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● Engage the student in more student-teacher conversation in Chinese aside from regularly planned activities or group the student with other advanced learners who are ready for more challenging dialog. ● Students provide the TPR commands. ● Students ask questions about the topics covered in a lesson (eg. looking at a picture, the student can ask “Who is …? How old is …? Where …?”). ● Have students provide extended responses/more details. ● Have students recognize and read the characters without using Pinyin. ● Ask students to fll out a simple form asking for name, age, year in school and present to the group. ● Ask students to write a short note of introduction including name, age, grade in school and share with the group. ● Ask students to conduct a short interview using a checklist, answering questions and writing down answers about personal information such as age, birthday, and phone number.

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