May 8, Tuesday -五月八日星期二 - A Day

This morning for 1st and 2nd periods we reviewed all the words we learned and a story about Odgen市區and Layton社區. We played games to review the words first and then students had few minutes to read the article first and write down the pronunciation by the characters/words they know. When the time was up, I read the story sentence by sentence and used TPRStorytelling cycling questions to help students understand the story. 25-40 minutes before the class dismissed, students used laptops as pairs to type in the answers to the questions at the end of the story.
For 3rd period students, we reviewed all the words we learned with games and added a few words - 找, 找到,找不到,找來找去,不知道,...中文怎麼說. After that we use TPRStorytelling cycling questions to help students with their listening cmprehension. With 25 minutes left, we played Bingo games.

找zhǎo = look for

找zhǎo 到dào = found

找zhǎo 不bú 到dào = cannot find

找zhǎo 來lái 找zhǎo 去qù = look for everywhere

買mǎi = buy

賣mài = sell

不bù 知zhī 道dào = don't know

有yǒu 一yī 個gè 女nǚ 孩hái

她tā 的de 名míng 字zì 叫jiào Jill　

Jill是shì 澳ào 大dà 利lì 亞yà 人rén

現xiàn 在zài 她tā 住zhù 在zài 中zhōng 國guó

Jill沒méi 有yǒu 帽mào 子zǐ

她tā 去qù 商shāng 店diàn 買mǎi 帽mào 子zǐ

可kě 是shì 她tā 不bù 知zhī 道dào 帽mào 子zǐ 中zhōng 文wén 怎zěn 麼me 說shuō

Jill找zhǎo 帽mào 子zǐ

她tā 找zhǎo 來lái 找zhǎo 去qù

可kě 是shì 她tā 找zhǎo 不bú 到dào 帽mào 子zǐ

捷(jié) 運(yùn) = rapid transportation
雖(suī) 然(rán) = although
但(dàn) 是(shì) = but
可(kě) 是(shì)  = but
而(ér) 且(qiě) = and, plus, moreover, besides
左(zuǒ) 右(yòu) = about, around
(This article is in verticle direction. In other words, you need to read it from the top to the bottom- verticle direction and from right to left. )
This is my first time to use a story in verticle direction. Before I distributed the article, I explained to students that ancient Chinese used verticle direction when reading and writing and I felt like reading in verticle direction made me feel I'm reading real Chinese. To my surprise, almost all the students love reading the article in verticle; they felt it is much easier and clearer to read Chinese in verticle. They were happy and excited with it. Therefore, from now on, our story will be in verticle.