MS Chinese Guide

DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION

● Use a variety of visuals to defne Chinese characters for colors, clothing, and parts of thebody 颜 色，穿着，身体部位 . ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate the Chinese characters, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & characters for body parts and clothing. ● Use Total Physical Response to review Chinese characters and calendar vocabulary. ● Group students to allow opportunity for them to practice Chinese. ● Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters (eg.What’s your favorite color?My favorite color is…. 你最喜 欢 什么 颜 色？我最喜 欢 .... 色。 ) ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● Ask and answer simple questions about color preferences. ● Ask and answer questions about colors of clothing. ● Ask and answer simple questions about family member’s physical characteristics ● Give short orla descriptions of self and family members telling how many are in your family, who they are, how old they are, what they like to do, what’s their favorite color, what they like to wear, and what they do for a living ( 我的家有 ... 口人，他 们 是 ...., 我的爸爸 ... 岁 ，他最喜 欢 做 .... ，他最喜 欢 的 颜 色是 ... 色，他喜 欢 穿 .... ，他的工作 是 ....) ● Give a short oral description about physical characteristics of family members ● Read short paragraphs describing a family (how many in the family, how old, when are their birthdays? 家里有 ... 口人，他 们 多大，生日是 ... 月 ... 日。 ) ● 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. ● Have students ask questions and/or give TPR commands for the class. ● Students ask questions about the topics covered in a lesson. ● Have students provide extended responses/more details. ● Have students recognize and read the characters without Pinyin. ● Have students write a short description of your family telling how many are in your family, how old they are, when their birthdays are, and what they do.

Skill Building

Extension