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CN S19 INT/ ADV who is the spy

May 10, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Conversation Class Lesson Summary

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

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.

CN F18 ADV DEBATE COMPETITION

December 14, 2018 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

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?

  1. 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?
  2. 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.
  3. The affirmative must advocate everything required by the topic itself. No revision of position of a team is permitted during the debate.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6.  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.
  7. The judge(You) must base his decision entirely on the material presented, without regard for other material which he may happen to possess.
  8. 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.

CN S18 INT/ADV Make a kite

May 4, 2018 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary

 

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

 

Day and Date:

04/2/2018 & 04/3/2018

 

Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):

Chinese, Intermediate & Advanced

 

Class theme/topics discussed:

Make a kite

 

Goal of the class:

Make a kite and know how to say different tools in Chinese.

 

 

How did you structure the class?

  1. Preparation of raw materials for making a kite.
  2. Tell students all raw materials and tools words in Chinese. Tell them the steps for making a kite.
  3. Let them make their own kite in 30 mins and go outside to fly the kite they made.

 

 What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)

PowerPoint, useful Chinese website:

  PowerPoint,youtube video.

 

What worked well in this class? What did not work?

      Students really enjoyed this class, know how to speak different tools in Chinese.  During the outdoor time,  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.

 

CN S18 ADV Tongue twister

May 4, 2018 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary

 

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

 

Day and Date:

04/19/2018

 

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?

  1. Prepare some Chinese tongue twister, not too long or too short.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

CN S18 ADV Role play

May 4, 2018 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary

 

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

 

Day and Date:

02/22/2018

 

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?

  1. Prepare some actors, famous person, cartoon characters, animals, sights photos.
  2. 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

 

 

 

 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.

 

CN S18 INT/ADV Telephone

May 4, 2018 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary

 

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

 

Day and Date:

03/21/2018

 

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?

  1. 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. 
  2. 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.

 

CN S18 INT   My favorite…

May 4, 2018 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary

 

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

 

Day and Date:

02/14/2018

 

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

 

 

 

 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.

 

CN F17 INT Buy and sell clothes

December 8, 2017 /

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

 Day and Date:

10/04/2017

 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?

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-DvMYs6OF8&t=3s

clothes:衣服

garments：外衣

suit：套装

men’s wear:：男装

women’s wear：女装

underwear：内衣

uniform：制服

overalls：（美）工装裤

cuff：袖口

formal dress：礼服

buttonhole：纽扣孔

shirt：衬衫

blouse：女衬衫

evening dress：晚礼服

T-shirt

Vest：背心

Nightshirt：睡衣

Sweater：毛衣，（厚）运动衫

Grown,robe：长袍 长外衣

Fur coat：皮大衣

Dust coat：风衣

Kimono：和服

Sheepshin jacket：羊皮夹克

Mackintosh；raincoat：雨衣

Hood：风帽，头巾

Trousers：裤子

Scarf;muffler：围巾

Jeans：牛仔裤

Shawl：披肩

Braces：裤子背带

Bathrobe：浴衣

Belt：皮带

Skirt：裙子

Divided skirt;split skirt：裙裤

Sleeve：袖子

Underpants,pants：内裤

Glove：手套

Panties：女短内裤

Tie(necktie)：领带

Brassiere;bra：胸罩

Waistcoat:背心

Bathing trunks:游泳裤

Bathing costume;swimsuit：游泳衣

Bikini：比基尼泳衣

Apron：围裙

Shoe：鞋

Sandal：凉鞋

Clog：木拖鞋

Natural fabric：天然纤维

Cotton：棉

Silk：丝

Wool：毛料

Linen：麻

Synthetic fabric：混合纤维

Nylon：尼龙

Cashmere：羊毛,开司米

Patterns：花样

Tartan plaid：格子

Dot:点点

Strip：条纹

CN F17 INT  Make up a story by pictures and share it

December 8, 2017 /

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

 

Day and Date:

09/25/2017

 

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?

  1. Give the student a paper with four pictures, one of them is blank.
  2. 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.

CN F17 ADV Trolley problem

December 8, 2017 /

Language Resident Name:

JING XU

 

Day and Date:

09/27/2017

 

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?

  1. 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

 

 

 

 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.

 

CN S17 INT Vacation & Traveling

May 5, 2017 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary 

Language Resident Name:

Ting Cao

Day and Date:

01/23/2017

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?

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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?
  4. Students work in groups and design plans for spring break. 

What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)

PowerPoint, useful Chinese website:

蚂蜂窝 http://www.mafengwo.cn/

What worked well in this class? What did not work?

Class was good! Especially the warm up activity worked very well. 

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.

CN S17 ADV&INT Chinese Popular Song

May 5, 2017 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary 

Language Resident Name:

Ting Cao

Day and Date:

04/24/2017&04/25/2017 

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:

  1. Understand all the lyrics;
  2. Know how to sing the song

How did you structure the class?

  1. Students work in pairs, listen to the song and write down the lyrics as much as they can recognize.
  2. After listening to the song, students show the words and discuss the possible topics of this song.
  3. 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.
  4. Students have 5 minutes to design a music video with their partners. After that, they will tell us their ideas.
  5. 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.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkRGgYSQfY

What worked well in this class? What did not work?

Both of the classes were very good! The song were not very difficult to learn, and students liked it a lot.

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).  

liàn’ài

五月天-恋爱ing     词曲:阿信

 

péi     áoyè       bào gān

陪你熬夜     到爆~肝也      。
guàngjiē     biǎnpíng zú

陪你逛街 逛成扁平~足也      。

超感谢   让我重生 整个o r z

让我重新      love  (l o v e! l o v e!)

 

恋爱i n g happy i n g

pēnshè

心情就像是      一台喷射机

恋爱i n g           i n g

hūn  límíng

      了黄昏 黎明

      ~都心跳~到不行

 

wén shèng

你是     但是好闻 胜过了    。

你是     但是却能 照进半夜里

zài zhōu    zhǔzhōu wèibǎo

     能载舟 也能煮粥 喂饱了生命

wéitāmìng

你就是维他命 l o v e

恋爱i n g happy i n g

pēnshè

心情就像是      一台喷射机

恋爱i n g           i n g

hūn  límíng

      了黄昏 黎明

      ~都心跳~到不行

 

wèi  mǒu

未来某年某月某日某时某分某秒

yǒngyuǎn

某人某地某种永远的心情

cǐkè

不会忘记此刻l o v e（l o v e! l o v e!）

恋爱i n g happy i n g

pēnshè

心情就像是      一台喷射机

恋爱i n g           i n g

hūn  límíng

      了黄昏 黎明

      ~都心跳~到不行

黄昏黎明整个都恋爱i n g

 

 

CN S17 INT Painting Game

May 5, 2017 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary 

Language Resident Name:

Ting Cao

Day and Date:

02/01/2017 

Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):

Chinese, Intermediate

Class theme/topics discussed:

Painting game 

Goal of the class:

In this class, students will review the words about color, direction and some nouns that they have learnt before. Through this class, they will be able to make description.

How did you structure the class?

  1. Warm up: review words of color and direction. Show students a picture and ask them to describe it.
  2. Activity 1: a student stands in front of the white board as a painter, the teacher shows a picture to other students. These students try their best to describe the picture to the painter, and the painter draw the picture according to their instructions.
  3. Activity 2: painting competition. Students are divided into two groups, and they get two different pictures. The group who finish drawing the picture will win.

What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)

Pictures from the internet

What worked well in this class? What did not work?

Class was good!  

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).  

Sample pictures:

CN S17 ADV Family Value & Kinship Terminology

May 5, 2017 /

Conversation Class Lesson Summary

Language Resident Name:

Ting Cao

Day and Date:

01/31/2017

Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):

Chinese, Advanced

Class theme/topics discussed:

Family Value

Goal of the class:

By the end of this class, students will be able to discuss the differences between the Chinese and American opinions on Family Value, and learn more about Chinese family relationship.

How did you structure the class?

  1. Group discussion: Do you know some differences between the Chinese and American opinions on family value? What are they? What are the reasons behind this?
  2. Role-play: Teacher collects some common Chinese family conflicts and gives them to different groups. Every group work on thier issues and find out what you will do in this situation.
  3. Kinship terminology: The Chinese Kinship System is very complicated. Distribute pictures of a family tree to every group, and ask them to figure out how to call those people on the family tree in Chinese.

What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)

Powerpoint, handout,

What worked well in this class? What did not work?

Class was really good. Students had a lot of fun, especially when they talked about the kinship terminology.  

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).  

Common family conflicts:

1、过春节的时候常常有夫妻因为去谁家过年而吵架。如果你遇到这样的事情你会怎么做？

2、你生活在城市，你有三个亲戚从农村来办事，他们觉得住在酒店太过了，想要在你家住半个月。但是你的丈夫／妻子不太愿意，你怎么办？

3、你在城市工作，农村的亲戚想要你帮忙介绍工作，但是这个亲戚没上过大学，工作能力和知识一般。现在不好找工作，你会帮他吗？怎么帮？

4、有亲戚找你借钱。他的经济条件不是很好，你会借给他吗？如果不想借，你怎么拒绝他？如果想借给他，为什么？以后如果他没按时还钱，你会怎么提醒他还钱？

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