December 12, Monday 十二月十二日星期一 B

Today at 6th period students, we learned the following words - 一頭、一棟、一個、一天、看到、都、給、有錢、沒有錢、因為、可是。We also reviewed the words learned last time, 学校、老师。After introducing these words with TPRS, we played a little bit Simon says (老師說) to review the words and then we worked together on translating of the story on page 46 sentence by sentence. We also used TPRS cyclying questions to practice student listening comprehension.
The story is the following--
一个男孩有一头奶牛，
一天，男孩带他的奶牛去学校。
学校里的老师看到奶牛。
他们都很喜欢奶牛。
他们给奶牛钱。
奶牛很高兴，因为它有钱了。
可是，男孩不高兴，因为他没有钱。
男孩要奶牛的钱，奶牛不给。


Next, students copied down the story and questions in pinyin, and then they answered the questions in pinyin.
When the students are done, we practice the Chinese characters.
Of course, we also do the calendar activity like 今天是___月___日。昨天是___月___日。明天是___月___日。今天是星期___。昨天是星期___。明天是星期___。And before the class we listened to the Chinese song about Jingle Bell. (to hear the song, please click the "jingle bell" for the fill-in lyric blank please click Fill-in Jingle Bell.)


For 7th and 8th period students, today we learned French number 1-20. We also do the map of France quiz. After that we played games about numbers to review these words.