Thursday, September 1, 2016

September 1 for DLI Chinese 3 Honors 1st and 4th period

Sorry that I don't have too much time to update today's lesson. I tried. We reviewed the old words quickly and learned the new words.
1st period students most of them wrote the definition and sentences on their own while 4th period students needed some help from the teacher such as writing the definition and sentences with them. 4th period students answered the questions aloud as a whole class while 1st answered the questions individually. I was a little behind for 4th period. The 1st period students read the dialogue and did the pair conversation practice while 4th period practiced with quizlet. No matter what they were doing great in class.


Below are the worksheets that 1st period students has done but not 4th period yet. We will have 4th period students did these two worksheets to practice their reading and conversation while 1st period students may do some enrichment activities.











September 1 for DLI Chinese 3 Honors 1st and 4th period

Sorry that I don't have too much time to update today's lesson. I tried. We reviewed the old words quickly and learned the new words.
1st period students most of them wrote the definition and sentences on their own while 4th period students needed some help from the teacher such as writing the definition and sentences with them. 4th period students answered the questions aloud as a whole class while 1st answered the questions individually. I was a little behind for 4th period. The 1st period students read the dialogue and did the pair conversation practice while 4th period practiced with quizlet. No matter what they were doing great in class.


Below are the worksheets that 1st period students has done but not 4th period yet. We will have 4th period students did these two worksheets to practice their reading and conversation while 1st period students may do some enrichment activities.











September 1 & 2 for Chinese Level I 3rd & 5th periods

Today Chinese Level I 3rd period we first reviewed all the words we learned before such as 你好!你好吗?我很好。走、跑、停。你的、名字、叫、什么?、我的。After that we learned new words today.
We learned
说、问、站起来、坐下。
We played the game 老师说 (Simmon says)
After the game we practiced TPRStorytelling circling questions.
(Statement) Robby 说你好。
(Question) Robb说你好,是不是? (是,Robby说你好)
(Statement) Robby 说你好。
(Question) Sarah说你好,是不是? (不是,Robby说好)
(Statement) Robby 说你好
(Question) Sarah 还是Robby说你好? (Robby说你好)。.....


Please remember your homework is
1) to copy down Chinese characters for five times the words we learned.
2) to play quizlet.com

For 5th period students we also read and acted out the story.



September 1 & 2 for Chinese Level I 3rd & 5th periods

Today Chinese Level I 3rd period we first reviewed all the words we learned before such as 你好!你好吗?我很好。走、跑、停。你的、名字、叫、什么?、我的。After that we learned new words today.
We learned
说、问、站起来、坐下。
We played the game 老师说 (Simmon says)
After the game we practiced TPRStorytelling circling questions.
(Statement) Robby 说你好。
(Question) Robb说你好,是不是? (是,Robby说你好)
(Statement) Robby 说你好。
(Question) Sarah说你好,是不是? (不是,Robby说好)
(Statement) Robby 说你好
(Question) Sarah 还是Robby说你好? (Robby说你好)。.....


Please remember your homework is
1) to copy down Chinese characters for five times the words we learned.
2) to play quizlet.com


For 5th period students we also read and acted out the story.




Wednesday, August 31, 2016

US-China Strong: Ambassador Nominations

Dear Parents and Students,
The US-China Strong organizations is once again recruiting students who want to act as ambassadors.  Many of you had students who participated last year.


Just like last year they are recruiting students who can encourage others to learn Mandarin and learn about China. Students are expected to share their story on social media and complete projects such as start a Chinese Language Club or host a Chinese Culture Night.  Students can design their own projects to get the word out about learning Mandarin. 


There are benefits for students such as participating in professional development webinars, receiving invitations to high-profile US-China relations events, putting on their resume that they were a US-China Strong Student Ambassador, and receiving a letter of recommendation from the foundation CEO.

This should be for mature students who are self-motivated.

I need to submit a list of interested students to the organization by September 16th, so please let me know by the 15th if you have any interested students.  

I've attached an explanatory guide to this email that you can share with students and parents.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to hear from you by the 15th of September.


Thanks,
 
 
 
 


Ellen


Ellen Knell, PhD

BYU Chinese Flagship



August 31 for Chinese Level 2 8th period

Today we learned the following new words


上面zài …shàng miàn


下面zài …xià miàn


前面zài …qián miàn


后面zài …hòu miàn


沙发shā fā


we first used PQA to introduced these new words and students created their own sentences on their dictionary form. Later students were given 10 minutes to work as pairs to practice the phrases.
Such as
Carli在Michael的前面。(Carlizài Michaelde qián miàn 。)
Michael在Carli的后面。(Michaelzài Carlide hòu miàn 。)


After that we read a story.



August 31 for Chinese Level 3 7th period

After we reviewed the old words we introduced the new ones. We showed quizlet's flashcards to clarify their English meanings. We used whiteboards to practice these characters and then we read a story.







For students to review the past three days vocabulary here is another quizlet to play.