Language and Level
(intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, intermediate
and Advanced
Class
theme/topics discussed:
Learn the song <the same song>(tongyishouge)
Goal of the
class:
To Practice their oral Chinese
skills. Practice Chinese listening skills. Learn about new vocabulary and learn
to sing this Chinese song.
How did you
structure the class?
Play song, let them practice
listening, write the lyrics they hear and fill it in the blanks in pinyin or
Chinese characters.
Help students correct mistakes, tell them the
meaning of the new vocabulary.
Teach them to sing the song. And put culture inputs
such as how to pronounce 的 and 了 in a song.
What technology,
media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts,
etc.)
PowerPoint, useful
Chinese website:
PowerPoint, YouTube
What worked
well in this class? What did not work?
Students really
enjoyed the class, practiced their listening skills. Learned new words and how to sing a Chinese song, everyone was involved and had fun.
How could this
class be improved/ modified?
No
If you have a more detailed lesson plan, please attach it below (OK to use target language for that). Please attach any handouts as well.
Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Advanced
Class theme/topics discussed:
Debate
Competition (Life issues)
Goal of the class:
To practice
their oral Chinese skills.
How did you structure the class?
There are two questions 1) For the growth of children, the family or the community impact more? 2) University education should be guided by the market (market-oriented) or should not be guide market?
Students work in two groups. each group has four students. Each team has their first debater and second debater. Follow the rule you told to your students.
What technology, media or props did you use? (Internet, resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint, useful Chinese website:
PowerPoint
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
This class is
very challenging for the students, but they really enjoyed the class, practiced
their spoken and explanatory abilities. Learned
new words. Everyone was involved and had fun.
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
If you have a more detailed lesson plan, please attach it below (OK to use target language for that). Please attach any handouts as well.
Language and Level
(intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Intermediate/Advanced
Class
theme/topics discussed:
Self introduction and game.
Goal of the
class:
This lesson plan is good for the first class. By the end of this class, students will be able to know all the students (including you ) in this class and remember their name. etc.
How did you
structure the class?
Students work in one group.
One student introduces her/him selves with name (Chinese and English name), how long have
they studied Chinese? What is their hobby, Chinese food and movie?
After first student introduce her/him self, the
second student should repeat the first student’s information and then introduce
her/him self, the third student should introduce the fist student and the
second one. And so on, all the students will get to remember others name and some
personal information.
Game: Cat catch mouse, students works in one group,
play this game. A fox tail toy is cat. A cup with questions inside is mouse. Cat
take around the body one time, mouse take two times. When the cat and mouse
hold by the same person, that person should pick up one question in the cup and
answer it in Chinese.
By the end of the class, teacher asks students to write
done the things they want to talk about in this class,
and what kind of activities they would like to see
during the Study Breaks and Cultural Activities.
What technology,
media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts,
etc.)
PowerPoint, useful
Chinese website:
PowerPoint, Chinese
background music
What worked
well in this class? What did not work?
Students really
enjoyed the class, after one class they knew all the classmates in
their class. Everyone was involved and had fun.
How could this
class be improved/ modified?
No
If you have a more detailed lesson plan,
please attach it below (OK to use target language for that). Please attach any handouts as well.
Language and Level
(intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Intermediate and advance
Class
theme/topics discussed:
Game: Who is the spy
Goal of the class:
Practice students’ oral Chinese skills
How did you
structure the class?
The game: Who is the spy
This game will help students practice the skill of using Chinese to describe a thing.
8 students, 8 cards with pictures (7 of them is A, 1 of them is B, B is the spy) for example, A is ORANGE, B is LEMON. Everyone has a card and doesn’t let other players know what you get. Everyone needs to say a word or a sentence to describe what you get in turns. You cannot directly say the word you get. The purpose of your describing is to make players who have the same card with you know you are not the spy. At the same time, you can’t make the spy know what you get. What’s more, yourself don’t know if you are the spy or not. If you are the spy, your purpose is to make others think you are on their side. It means that you need to make others think you have the same card with them and the spy is someone else. After everyone describes for a round, I will say three, two, one, and everyone point to someone who you think is the spy. Who get the most votes die.
If there are only 3 players alive, the spy wins. Or, the spy loses.
What technology, media
or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint, useful
Chinese website:
Cards with pictures
What worked
well in this class? What did not work?
The students truly love this game, they had fun and learned a lot of new words.
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
If you have a more detailed lesson plan,
please attach it below (OK to use target language for that). Please attach any handouts as well.
Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Advanced
Class theme/topics discussed:
Debate Competition
Goal of the class:
To Practice student’s oral Chinese skills.
How did you structure the class?
There are two questions: 1) The family or community, which influence more during the growth of a child? 2) University education should be market-oriented or should not be mark-oriented?
There are two teams, each consisting of two or three speakers. 1) Each team has two or three constructive speeches and two to three rebuttal speeches. The affirmative gives the first constructive speech, and therebuttals alternate: negative, affirmative, negative, affirmative. Theaffirmative has both the first and last speeches of the debate. 2) When worded as a proposition of policy, the topic requires the affirmativeto support some specified action by some particular individual or group. The affirmative has the right to make any reasonable definition of each of the terms of the proposition. If the negative challenges the reasonableness of a definition by the affirmative, the judge must accept the definition of the team that shows better grounds for its interpretation of the term.
The affirmative must advocate everything required by the topic itself. No revision of position of a team is permitted during the debate.
Who asserts must prove. In order to establish an assertion, the team must support it with enough evidence and logic to convince an intelligent but previously uninformed person that it is more reasonable to believe the assertion than to disbelieve it. Facts must be accurate. Visual materials are permissible, and once introduced, they become available for the opponents’ use if desired.
In the questioning period, the questioner may ask any fair, clear question that has a direct bearing on the debate. The questioner may use the period to build up any part of his own case, to tear down any part of his opposition’s case, or to ascertain facts, such as the opposition’s position on a certain issue, that can be used later in the debate. The questioner must confine himself to questions and not make statements, comments, or ask rhetorical questions. Each speaker is questioned as soon as he concludes his constructive speech. The witness must answer the questions without consulting his colleagues.
No new constructive arguments may be introduced in the rebuttal period. The affirmative must, if possible, reply to the major negative arguments before the last rebuttal.
The judge(You) must base his decision entirely on the material presented, without regard for other material which he may happen to possess.
Any gains made outside of the established procedure are disallowed.
What technology, media or props did you use? (Internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint, useful Chinese website:
PowerPoint
and rules of debate in Chinese
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
Students really
enjoyed the class, practiced their spoken and explanatory abilities. Learned new words. Everyone
was involved and had fun.
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
If you have a more detailed lesson plan,
please attach it below (OK to use target language for that). Please attach any handouts as well.
Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, advanecd
Class theme/topics discussed:
Tongue twister
Goal of the class:
To Practice their oral Chinese skills.
How did you structure the class?
Prepare some Chinese tongue twister, not too long or too short.
Guide everyone to read these tongue twister several times，let everyone guess what it means first and later tell them. Make some small piece of paper with numbers and let each student draw one. The number on the note is the tongue twister they are going to say.
Tell them the rules of the game, follow the rhythm of the teacher’s clap, from slow to fast. Everyone should say their tongue twister in this rule: “I do not say + their tongue twister, I say+randomly picking one’s tongue twister in the classroom”. The selected student repeats this sentence and “give” it to the next student. As the rhythm gets faster, saying the tongue twisters are getting faster and faster. Students often laugh by their mistakes.
Teacher asks student the tongue twister they know in other languages, let them introduce it to their classmates.
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint, useful Chinese website:
PowerPoint
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
Students really enjoyed saying tongue twister, practiced their spoken Chinese and explanatory abilities. They laughed all the time and learned new words. Everyone was involved and had fun.
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
If you have a more detailed lesson plan, please attach it below (OK to use target language for that). Please attach any handouts as well.
Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, advanecd
Class theme/topics discussed:
Role play
Goal of the class:
To Practice their oral Chinese skills.
How did you structure the class?
Prepare some actors, famous person, cartoon characters, animals, sights photos.
Divide students into two groups, each person pick up one picture and draws a role. Each group took another picture of one animal and Everyone uses the selected photos to arrange a play，show for everyone..
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint, useful Chinese website:
PowerPoint
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
Students really enjoyed making the play, practiced their spoken and explanatory abilities. Their stories were very funny, they all laughed and learned new words. Everyone was involved and had fun.
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
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Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Intermediate & Advanced
Class theme/topics discussed:
Telephone
Goal of the class:
Improve student’s spoken Chinese ability
How did you structure the class?
Prepare some interesting English blogs, connect with “weirdest roommates that are impossible not to laugh at…or live with”. Because living with roommates has become the norm for many people, as house prices rise and living alone just doesn’t make financial sense anymore. Depending on your personality it can either be a joy of shared fun, food and life experiences; or a nightmare of unwashed dishes, bad smells and empty toilet paper rolls.
Give some student several fun printed blogs. Ask them work in pairs, let the student who got the printed blog tell their partner the stories they saw. This partner tells the same story to the third person and the third tells the fourth person. The fourth student tell the story to the class and then the first student tell everyone the story he/she told is changed or not.
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint, useful Chinese website:
PowerPoint, background music.
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
Students really enjoyed this class, improved their spoken Chinese ability and everyone was involved and had fun.
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
If you have a more detailed lesson plan, please attach it below (OK to use target language for that). Please attach any handouts as well.
Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Intermediate
Class theme/topics discussed:
My favorite…
Goal of the class:
Let students use the sentence “my favorite…” and discuss some of their favorite things.
How did you structure the class?
Let the students worked in pairs and discussed their favorite animal, book, actor, actress, a person, movie, class, city, country, story with their partner…
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint, useful Chinese website:
Google documents and Youtube.
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
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Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, intermediate
Class theme/topics discussed:
Buy and sell clothes
Goal of the class:
To Practice their oral Chinese skills and learn new Chinese words. Learn about buying clothes in Chinese and China.
How did you structure the class?
Show them a video about shopping in China. And teach them some Chinese new words about shopping. Let them practice the new Chinese vocabulary and work in pairs one buy one sell.
Students act as salesman and hold an auction, they need to compete with their competitors, sell the clothes “in their hands”.As a student who be the customer, can bargain with these salespeople and decide which student’s product to buy.
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, play mobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint. YouTube
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
Students really enjoyed the class, practiced their spoken and explanatory abilities. Learned new words. Everyone was involved and had fun.
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
If you have a more detailed lesson plan, please attach it below (OK to use target language for that). Please attach any handouts as well.
Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Intermediate
Class theme/topics discussed:
Make up a story by pictures and share it.
Goal of the class:
To Practice their oral Chinese skills.
How did you structure the class?
Give the student a paper with four pictures, one of them is blank.
Three people make a group let the first student use his/her imagination to make up a story and tell this story to the second student, the second student should repeat the story what they heard from the first student, tell this story to the third student . Then the third student should share this story to all the students and draw on the whiteboard. Let the first student tell everyone this story where is the difference.
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint, useful Chinese website:
PowerPoint
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
After many people told about the same story,the story changed a little bit.This is the most interesting point. Students really enjoyed this game, practiced their spoken and explanatory abilities. Learned new words. Everyone was involved and had fun.
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
If you have a more detailed lesson plan, please attach it below (OK to use target language for that). Please attach any handouts as well.
Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Advanced
Class theme/topics discussed:
Trolley problem
Goal of the class:
To Practice their oral Chinese skills and understand ethics ect…
How did you structure the class?
Discuss with students about the trolley problem with the following points:
There is a runaway trolleybarreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options:
(1) Do nothing, and the trolley kills the five people on the main track.
(2)Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person. Which is the most ethical choice? Let students work in pairs and share their views and then share with classmates.
As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by putting something very heavy in front of it. As it happens, there is a very fat man next to you – your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five. Should you proceed? Let students work in pairs and share their views and then share with classmates.
A brilliant transplant surgeon has five patients, each in need of a different organ, each of whom will die without that organ. Unfortunately, there are no organs available to perform any of these five transplant operations. A healthy young traveler, just passing through the city the doctor works in, comes in for a routine checkup. In the course of doing the checkup, the doctor discovers that his organs are compatible with all five of his dying patients. Suppose further that if the young man were to disappear, no one would suspect the doctor. Do you support the morality of the doctor to kill that tourist and provide his healthy organs to those five dying persons and save their lives? Let students work in pairs and share their views and then share with classmates.
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
PowerPoint
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
Everyone in class argued very well, do not even want to leave after class . Students really enjoyed the class, practiced their spoken Chinese and explanatory abilities. Learned new words. Everyone was involved and had fun.Thought about philosophical questions.
How could this class be improved/ modified?
No
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Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Intermediate
Class theme/topics discussed:
Vacation & Traveling
Goal of the class:
By the end of this class, students will be able to talk about their winter vacation and share their travelling experiences.
How did you structure the class?
Warm up: Teacher introduces a game “who is the spy” to student, and use this game to help students review words that are related to travelling.
Interview: Students work in pairs and interview each other about their winter vacations. After the interview, students share the information they get in front of the whole class.
Group discussion: Students discuss the following questions in groups: a. Do you like travelling? And why? b. Share one of your favorite travelling experiences. c. How do you make travelling plans? Can you share some useful information or website for travelling? d. Do you like travelling along or with friends? Did any conflicts happen when you travelled with other people?
Students work in groups and design plans for spring break.
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):
Chinese, Intermediate, Advanced
Class theme/topics discussed:
Chinese Popular Song
Goal of the class:
By the end of this class, students will be able to:
Understand all the lyrics;
Know how to sing the song
How did you structure the class?
Students work in pairs, listen to the song and write down the lyrics as much as they can recognize.
After listening to the song, students show the words and discuss the possible topics of this song.
Teacher gives students the incomplete lyrics. Students listening to the song again and fill in the blanks. After the song, we check the missing words together and explain the new words.
Students have 5 minutes to design a music video with their partners. After that, they will tell us their ideas.
Show the official video music video and try to sing the song.
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
