五月二十二日星期三 May 22, Wednesday - B Day

For Chinese Level I students, we learned the following words -

For Chinese Level I students we learned the following words -
書包shū bāo = backpack (for the purpose of school use/ school study)
買mǎi  = buy
家樂福jiā lè fú  = Carrifoure
找zhǎo  = look for
找不到zhǎo bù dào = can't find
找到zhǎo dào = find

supplementary words...
賣mài = sell
背包bèi bāo =  backpack
如果rú guǒ = if
學校xué xiào  = school
學生xué shēng = student
太貴了tài guì le  = too expensive

We used PQA to learn these words. For example,
Kali yǒu yī gè qiān bǐ hé
Kali 有一個鉛筆盒
lǎo shī yào mǎi Kalide qiān bǐ hé 
老師要買Kali的鉛筆盒
lǎo shī wèn Kalimài bù mài tā de qiān bǐ hé
老師問Kali賣不賣他的鉛筆盒 
Kalishuō mài 
Kali說賣
lǎo shī yòu wèn Kaliduō shǎo qián mài tā de qiān bǐ hé 
老師又問Kali多少錢賣她的鉛筆盒
Kalishuō 250kuài qián 
Kali說兩百五十塊錢
lǎo shī wèn Jace liǎng bǎi wǔ shí kuài qián mǎi bù mǎi Kalide qiān bǐ hé 
老師問Jace 兩百五十塊錢買不買Kali的鉛筆盒
Jaceshuō bù mài 
Jace說不賣
.....etc.
After we practiced買mǎi and 賣mài, instead of using small whiteboards, we practiced on these words on a sheet of paper. We folded the paper into 16 boxes. The teacher said, 找zhǎo書shū, and students write its Chinese characters and draw a picture to its meaning on the front, and write its English meaning and pinyin in the back.

(By Emma Saxey, Chinese Level I, 5th period)

 At the last 15 minutes we acted out the story three times. Instead of using the name "James" we used the actor's/actress' names. Also we used TPRS circling questions.