March 22, Thursday 三月二十二日星期三

Today the 1st period, we started our class with the regular routin - copy down the words on the boards (see the words belowed), and then the teacher asked students to come up to the board to write down today's date. After that we quickly introduced the vocabulary, and then we used whiteboard to practice these new words. We also use PQA (Personal Question and Answer) to get familiar to these words. After that, we used the flashcards we made to play games. We played 'heart attack" with the group of 4-5, and then we played 'who's the fastest?" raising up the correct flashcard while listening to the teacher said.


懶lǎn 惰duò = lazy <=> 勤qín 勞láo = diligent
髒zāng = dirty <=> 乾gan 淨jìng = clean
亂luàn = messy <=> 整zhěng 齊qí = clean, tidy, organized
整zhěng 天tiān = whole day <=> 半bàn 天tiān = half day
準zhǔn 時shí = on time <=> 遲chí 到dào = late
交jiāo = turn in
打dǎ 掃sǎo = clean


After the game, we listened to the Chinese song - 我的未來不是夢 My future is not a dream.


For 2nd period, instead of using the whiteboard to practice the words, we played 'time-writes'; each table was issued a sheet of whitepaper and given a flashcard with Chinese words on it. The students of each table first wrote down their table number on the paper, and they were asked to write a sentence with the words on the flashcard in one minute. After a minute, they had to pass their paper to another table. They had to read the sentence written on the paper that just was given to them from the last table, and write a sentence to create a story in one minute. After a minute, they had to pass their paper to the next table. Repeat this until all the table students had their turn. After that we read the story sentence by sentence students just created and students raised their hand voluntarily to translate into English.


After the game, we listened to the Chinese song - 我的未來不是夢 My future is not a dream.


For 3rd period, we spent lots of time in PQA as we had a lot of fun. Some kids were assigned some certain words. For example, Josh was assigned the word "房fáng 間jiān = room" while Roo was assigned the word "