二月二十八日星期四 - February 28, Thursday - A Day

FOR CHINESE LEVEL I ABSENT STUDENTS - #1, Copy down the words and the story onto your notebook and then show the teacher when you come back, #2, created a story with 8 sentences using the patter as the following example...

Oooops, we forgot to do the calendar today. :-( Well, it's okay. We will remember it next time. :-)
Today we first introduced these two words --

天空tiān kōng  = sky

掉下來diào xià lái /掉下去diào xià qù = fall down/fall off

And then  we viewed a powerpoint on "天空掉下來了" (please click 天空掉下來了to access the story) and also use circling questions for listening, speaking, and comprehension check. We quickly reviewed the story by filling the blank --


yī gè hé guǒ cóng shù shàng diào xià lái le 
一個核果從樹上掉下來了
zhè gè hé guǒ zá dào le tù zǐ 
這個核果砸到了兔子
tù zǐ pǎo dào hú lí nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
兔子跑到狐狸那裡說天空掉下來了
hú lí pǎo dào xióng nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
狐狸跑到熊那裡說天空掉下來了
xióng pǎo dào sōng shǔ nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
熊跑到松鼠那裡說天空掉下來了
sōng shǔ pǎo dào lù nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
松鼠跑到鹿那裡說天空掉下來了
lù pǎo dào xiǎo lǎo shǔ nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
鹿跑到小老鼠那裡說天空掉下來了
xiǎo lǎo shǔ pǎo dào māo tóu yīng nà lǐ shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
小老鼠跑到貓頭鷹那裡說天空掉下來了
māo tóu yīng shuō tiān kōng méi yǒu diào xià lái 
貓頭鷹說天空沒有掉下來

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yī gè hé guǒ cóng shù shàng diào xià lái le 

一個核果從樹上掉下來了
zhè  gè hé guǒ    zá dào le 
這個核果砸到了                    
                              pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了
                             pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了

                              pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了


                              pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了


                              pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了

                             pǎo dào                              nà    lǐ  shuō tiān kōng diào xià lái le 
                    跑到                    那裡說天空掉下來了
                              shuō tiān kōng méi yǒu diào xià lái
                    說天空沒有掉下來

After that students were asked to create their own story according the pattern. Some students did a super awesome job. 

Oh, by the way, to help students remember 找 zhǎo and 找到zhǎo dào, we played a game "hide and seek" (hide a Chinese knot and have a student seek for it). It's a around-15 minute game.