May 22, Tuesday 五月二十二日星期二 - A Day

Today we reviewed all the words. After using TPRStorytellin cycling questions, students worked on an article about 井底之蛙. For 3rd period students they worked on the textbook on page 93.

May 21, 2012, Monday 五月二十一日星期一 - B Day

Today we first worked on the textbook 我愛學中文 page 79. The teacher read the story stentence by sentence and the students volunteered to translate it to English. And then we used TPRS cycling questions to practice listening comprehension and speaking ability. Next, students copied down the story in pinyin and asnwer questions to the story on page 79. 40 minutes before the class dismissed, the students watched the video about China's culture as other period students did last Friday.

May 18, Friday 五月十八日星期五 - A Day

Today we watched a video named "你好!中國" which introduced Chinese masters like "孔子" "孫子" and "老子", the legends about nature like "太陽" and "月亮", and the inventions like "農曆" "指南針" and "火藥" "紙", etc.According to the copy right, I am not able to upload the video online but it briefly introduced Chinese culture. The video is published by 高等教育出版社.

May 17, Thursday 五月十七日星期四 - B Day

For 8th period students, we reviewed the words we learned and told a story about Gage who wanted to eat hamburgers from McDonald's but he didn't how to get there. We used whiteboards and TPRS to do cycling questions and PQA. After that, students we did the time-writing vocabulary practice. Students were given 4 minutes to translate 50 words from Chinese to English, and see how many they got. After we explained each word, we did it again, until at least 80% of students get 80% words right.

May 16, Wednesday 五月十六日星期三 - A Day

For 1st, 2nd, and 3rd period students we did the similar activities but different words. We reviewed the words we learned and told a story about frog and make the idom 井底之蛙 more meaningful. We used whiteboards and TPRS to do cycling questions and PQA. After that, students we did the time-writing vocabulary practice. Students were given 4 minutes to translate 50 words from Chinese to English, and see how many they got. After we explained each word, we did it again, until at least 80% of students get 80% words right.

May 15, Tuesday - 五月十五日星期二 - B Day

For 8th period students today, we did the same activities as 3rd period students do but spent longer time on PQA with all the following words. To simplify the words, we didn't learned extra words like what 3rd period students do but just the words required for the story.
麥mài 當dāng 勞láo = McDonald's

漢hàn 堡bǎo 包bāo = hamburger

問wèn = ask

一yī 直zhí 走zǒu = keep walking (straight)

左zuǒ 拐guǎi = left turn, turn left

...的de 旁páng 邊biān = next to不bù知zhī道dào = don't know
We used a sheet of paper instead of whiteboard to practice the words. After the paper writing and practice, students were assigned a word and were separated into two groups to play the clapping game to practice pronounciating these new words.
 

May 14, Monday, 五月十四日星期一 - A Day

Since we are going to learn a story about 井底之蛙, we learned some words about it as the following,

上shàng 課kè 時shí  = when being in class

分fēn 享xiǎng  = share

井jǐng 底dǐ 之zhī 蛙wā  = the frog in the well

以yǐ 為wèi  = thought (opposite to the fact)

因yīn 此cǐ  = therefore, so

自zì 滿mǎn  = self satisfied, complacent

自zì 大dà  = ego, prideful

自zì 私sī   = selfish

自zì 足zú  = self-sufficient

自zì 立lì  = self-reliant, self-sustained

故gù 事shì  = story

(we focused on the first 6 words, they are our target words, other than those are our supplimental ones).

For 3rd period students, we did the same activities but learned different words.
We're going to learn a story about 麥當勞在哪裡? so today we learned the following words --
麥mài 當dāng 勞láo = McDonald's

漢hàn 堡bǎo 包bāo = hamburger

問wèn = ask

一yī 直zhí 走zǒu = keep walking (straight)

左zuǒ 拐guǎi = left turn, turn left

...的de 旁páng 邊biān = next to

右yòu 拐guǎi = right turn, turn right

溫wēnǔ 蒂dì = Wendy's

必bì 勝shèng 客kè = Pizza Hut

漢hàn 堡bǎo 王wáng = Burger King

潛qián 艇tǐng 堡bǎo = Subway

肯kěn 德dé 基jī = KFC

(we focused on the first 6 words, they are our target words, other than those are our supplimental ones).