Class: YaYaII level one
Theme: Chinese New Year
Prepared by: Jen Pearl & Xini Wang Location: Center for Global Change
Main Goals and Objectives:
Continue learning how to write chaPractice sentence patterns
Continue character writing
Time
Date 3/5/11
Age Group: 6-10
Activities
Teaching
Materials
Taught by
5 min
Greetings
Open questions: 怎么说。。。
Name tags
PPT
Both
5 min
New words: 好、不好、对、不对、棒、很、非常
PPT
Both
15 min
Writing:
Introduction and practice of how to write numbers 6-10, 我、你、
他、她、们
Emphasize proper stroke order and writing techniques
Homework: practice writing
White board
Grid paper
All
30 minutes
Game: sentence scramble
First: demonstration round by teachers
Sample sentence
cards
15 minutes
Divide class into two teams and assign two teacher/volunteers to each
group. Have each team write a 5-7 word sentence, writing one word
each on one card -- using characters. Each person should write at
least 2 words. The volunteers should check the character and then
write the pinyin underneath.
Sheet with sentence
structures
Paper with grid
squares/pencils
15 minutes
Then, the teams scramble their word cards and give them to the other
team. The two teams then race to unscramble the words. Once their
words are unscrambled, each team must act out the sentence, read it
correctly in Chinese, then translate the sentence into English. Scoring
is as follows.
Bridges: Children, Languages, World Project
Center for the Study of Global Change
201 N. Indiana Ave., Bloomington, IN 47408-4001
[email protected]
(812)856-4835
Game scoring:
 2 points = first team to correctly unscramble the sentence
 1 point = to act out the meaning of the sentence
 2 points = to correctly read it in Chinese (1 point partial
credit for pronunciation problems)
 2 points = to correctly translate the sentence into English
All
Sample sentences:
Name (name + is + my + mother/father/etc)
Date (today is + year + month + date)
Routine (person + time + action)
Zodiac animal (person + de + zodiac animal + is + animal)
Color phrases (number + ge + color + animal/food)
Like/dislike (person + like/dislike + color/food/animal/activity)
Time
permitting
Tongue twisters is time permits
PPT
Homework
Spring break homework packet
Write a 3-5 sentence paragraph in pinyin describing yourself. Come
prepared to read your paragraph in class after spring break. During
our first class after spring break, your partner will have to draw what
you describe.
Xini
Bridges: Children, Languages, World Project
Center for the Study of Global Change
201 N. Indiana Ave., Bloomington, IN 47408-4001
[email protected]
(812)856-4835
Class: YaYaII level one
Theme: sentences pattern review, words for good and bad
Date: Saturday, March 6, 2011
Homework assignments for spring break
1) Composition
Using at least three sentence patterns that you have learned, write a short paragraph about
yourself in Chinese. Write the paragraph using pinyin and be sure to write the tones over the
appropriate letters. Your paragraph should be 3-5 sentences. Come prepared to read your
paragraph out loud at our next class.
2) Character writing
Finish filling out the character practice sheet that we began in class on Saturday, March 6.
Complete the worksheet by following the included directions. Come prepared to hand in this sheet
at our next class.
3) Study
Continue to study all of the vocabulary and sentence patterns that we have learned.
Questions?
If you have questions, you may contact teacher Jen Pearl at [email protected].
Bridges: Children, Languages, World Project
Center for the Study of Global Change
201 N. Indiana Ave., Bloomington, IN 47408-4001
[email protected]
(812)856-4835
Agenda
 Today’s theme: writing and sentences
 Open questions (怎么说…)
 New words: 好、不好、对、不对、棒、很、非常
 Writing numbers and pronouns
 Game: sentence scramble
How do you say….
 怎么说…
 Zěnme shuō….
New words: good, bad…
Good, bad, etc
 hǎo






好
bù hǎo
不好
duì
对
bù duì
不对
bàng
棒
hěn
很
fēicháng 非常
good
bad
correct
not correct
great
very
very; exceptionally
Writing
Writing numbers
Writing numbers
Writing numbers
Pronouns
你 = nǐ = you
Pronouns
我= wǒ = I
Pronouns
他= tā = he
Pronouns
她= tā = she
Pronouns
们= men = makes a pronoun plural
Example: 我们 = wǒmen = we
Game
Sentence scramble
(beginning with a demonstration)
Game overview
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Pick your sentence topic as a team
Create a sentence that consists of 5-7 Chinese
words with your team
Each person writes around 2 words of that
sentence on a separate piece of paper
Scramble the words and give them to the teachers
Race: unscramble the words
Each team then acts out the meaning of the
sentence, reads it in Chinese, and translates it into
English
Sample sentences
 Name (name + is + my + mother/father/etc)
 Date (today is + year + month + date)
 Routine (person + time + action)
 Zodiac animal (person + de + zodiac animal + is +
animal)
 Color phrases (number + ge + color + animal/food)
 Like/dislike (person + like/dislike +
color/food/animal/activity)
Rules of the game
 Scoring:
 2 points = first team to correctly unscramble the sentence
 1 point = to correctly act out the meaning of the sentence
 2 points = to correctly read it in Chinese (1 point partial
credit for pronunciation problems)
 2 points = to correctly translate the sentence into English
Tongue twisters
四是四,十是十，十四是十四，四十是四十，谁能分得清,请来试一试。
大兔子，大肚子，大肚子的大兔子，要咬大兔子的大肚子;
华华有两朵黄花，红红有两朵红花。华华要红花，红红要黄花。
华华送给红红一朵黄花，红红送给华华一朵红花.
YaYa II Level I: Practice writing Chinese pronouns
Pronouns
你 = nǐ = you
我= wǒ = I
他= tā = he
她= tā = she
们= men = makes a pronoun plural
Example: 我们 = wǒmen = we
Learning stroke order
Remember: when writing numbers, draw your vertical strokes top to bottom and your horizontal
strokes left to right, moving right across the character. Start at the top left corner of the character.
Homework: practice writing each character using the proper stroke order. Fill each box with one
character.
Homework: using the rules for creating plural pronouns, practice writing the Chinese words for the
following: we, you all, they (female), they (male). Thus, each word will consist of two characters
(example: 我们). Fill each box with one character and repeat until the line is full.
We
We
You all
They (F)
They (F )
They (M)
They (M)