十月二日星期三- October 2, Wednesday - A Day

For Chinese Level II & III, we first learned the following words and then we did some activities.

住(zhù)在(zài) = live in

找(zhǎo)來(lái)找(zhǎo)去(qù) = look for (everywehere); look around

去(qù) = to go

商(shāng)店(diàn) = store

城(chéng)市(shì) = city

你(nǐ)住(zhù)在(zài)哪(nǎ)裏(li)？ = where do you live?

我(wǒ)住(zhù)在(zài)……。  = I live....。

你(nǐ)去(qù)哪(nǎ)裏(lǐ)？ = Where did you go?

我(wǒ)去(qù)…..商(shāng)店(diàn)。= I went to ....store.

1) Practice 住(zhù)在(zài)

1. students were given a piece of paper and asked to write any city's name on the paper.

2. the teacher asked "你住在哪裏？“, the student answered the question in a full sentence with the city's name they wrote down.

3. Students lined up in two rows, and asked the student across him/her the question, he/she answered, and then asked the same question and received the answer. And then the students each row move one step toward left; the last student in each row needs to move to the end. They ask the same questions and received the answer from the students across them., and move one step again. Continue the steps until the students ask the same person at their first time.

2) Practice 去(qù)…..商(shāng)店(diàn)
1. on the back of the paper, this time students wrote down a store's name.
2. the teacher asked "你去哪裏？“the student answered the question in a full sentence with the store's name they wrote down, but this time they have to put 商店 in front of the store name. For example,

我(wǒ)去(qù)Walt-mart商(shāng)店(diàn) 。

3) Reading (Resource from TPRS I Love Learning Chinese).
The teacher read aloud sentence by sentence and asked the volunteer students some words and clarify the meanings. We used circling questions for listening and speaking and comprehension check. And then the students repeated after the teacher. And then.... and then....the time is up. :)

For Chinese Level I students, they are going to do the same assignment that A-Day students do which is watch the video name Terra Cotta (from the History Channel) and write an short essay about it.