Wednesday, February 29, 2012

February 29, Wednesday Fevrier vingt-neuf, mercredi

We started to learn French today. We learned French Alphabet by listening to a French Alphabet song and then we learn basic greetings. After that, students did their powerpoint presentation. Today who did the powerpoint presentation will receive 2 extra points.

Je m'appelle...=My name is...

Je suis...= I am...

Mon prénom est...= My (first) name is...


Voici...= This is...

Il s'appelle...= His name is...

Elle s'appelle...= Her name is...

Comment vous appelez-vous ? (formal and/or plural)= What is your name?

Comment t'appelles-tu ? (informal)= What is your name?

Enchanté / Enchantée = It's nice to meet you.

Ça va? = Ça va bien? = comment allez-vous? = how are you doing?

bien/tres bien = good/very good

mal = bad

pas mal = not bad

comme Çi comme Ça = so-so

February 23, Thursday 二月二十三日星期四

Today I was at Tampa Bay, FL for Confucius Classroom and the sub, Mr. Brough, was subbing me. For Foreign Language Survey, students were asked to study their notes for 45 minutes and to do the quiz on all the knowledge about China and Chinese we've learned. There was 10 minutes open-notes for students at the quiz.

February 21, Tuesday 二月二十一日星期二

Students were asked to read an article about France through pioneer library and generated a 16 slides including a title page and at least 15 facts about France from the article. We were at the computer lab 201 for students to work on this assignment.
Utah Pioneer Library at home for Utah students to use needs username and password. The username is pioneer and this year the password is friend.
Please
#1, google search - utah pioneer library
#2, click "pioneer library" and key in the username and password which are mentioned above.
#3, click the "k-12" and then click "Cultural Gram"
#4, click "world edition" and click the map of "Europe"
#5, click the map of France

Monday, February 27, 2012

February 27, Mondy ---二月二十七日星期一

We correctd the quiz paper and after correcting the quiz, students were asked to write the correct answers in the quiz paper to receive half poits back. After done correcting the answers, they were asked to take a pop-quiz with 10 questions for extra points.

After that we did powerpoint presentation on France.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

February 15, Wednesday 二月十五日星期三 - B

Objectives:
1) 90% of students are able to tell the numbers in Chinese from 1-20.
2) 80% of students are able to tell Chinese colors.
3) 70% of students are able to recognize the Chinese animals.

Activities:
1) Review the chinese colors with whiteboards
2) Introduce Chines 12 animals
3) Practice matching Chinese numbers and colors

鼠shǔ = rat
牛niú = cow
虎hǔ = tiger
兔tù = rabbit
龍lóng = dragon
蛇shé = snake
馬mǎ = horse
羊yáng = goat
猴hóu = monkey
雞jī = chicken
狗gǒu = dog
豬zhū = pig

Monday, February 13, 2012

February 13, Monday 二月十三日星期一 - B

Objectives:
1) 70% of students are able to recognize the colors in Chinese.
2) 80% of students will be able to tell the day of the week in Chinese.
3) 90% of students will be able to tell the months in Chinese.

Activities:
1) Review the day of the week & the months in Chinese
2) Pop-quiz on the day of the week and the months
3) Introduce the Chinese colors
4) Musical chair/games to practice saying the color words in Chinese.
5) What color do you like? 你喜歡什麼顏色?

After reviewing the words of the week and of the months, we had a pop-quiz; five questions for the weekdays and five for the months. 6th period students played bingo games on colors while 7th period students played "What color do you like?你喜歡什麼顏色?" instead.

The words we learned
白bái 色sè = white
黑hēi 色sè = black
灰huī 色sè = gray
紅hóng 色sè = red
藍lán 色sè = blue
紫zǐ 色sè = purple
黃huáng 色sè = yellow
橘jú 色sè = orange
橙chéng 色sè = orange
綠lǜ 色sè = green
粉fěn 紅hóng 色sè = pink
棕zōng 色sè = brown
咖kā 啡fēi 色sè =brown
金jīn 色sè = golden/blond
銀yín 色sè = silver
彩cǎi 色sè = rainbow colors
淺qiǎn 色sè = light color
深shēn 色sè = dark color

Friday, February 10, 2012

February 9, 2012 二月九日星期四 -B

Ocbjectives -
1. 90% of students will be able to recognize 12 months in Chinese
2. 90% of students will be able to recognize the English meaning of 12 Chinese months/
3. 90% of students will be able to translate 12 months from Chinese to English and vice versa
4. 70% of students will be able to recognize 7 days of the week in Chinese
5. 70% of students will be able to sing the song "一個星期有七天。"(There are 7 days in a week).


Activities -
1. Introduce the day of the week.
2. Make 7 flashcards about the day of the week and play games in pairs.
3. Work in on the package of the day of the week.
4. Play games on the day of the week.
5. Learn to sing the song "一個星期有七天。"

Package of the day of the weekPlease read the instruction before you start the Package of the day of the week assignment.
Page 1 Front - for reference
Page 1 Back - Translate the day of the week from Chinese to English and vice versa.
Page 2 Front - please answer the questions in Chinese characters.
Page 2 Back - please write down today's date in Chinese characters and in English.
- color the peach tree and the peaches.
Please click Package of the day of the week to access the assignment.

一yī 二èr 三sān 四sì 五wǔ 六liù 七qī = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
我wǒ 的de 朋péng 友yǒu 在zài 哪nǎ 裡lǐ ?= Where is my friend?
在zài 這zhè 裡lǐ 在zài 這zhè 裡lǐ= here, here
我wǒ 的de 朋péng 友yǒu 在zài 這zhè 裡lǐ = my friend is here


一yī 個gè 星xīng 期qī 有yǒu 七qī 天tiān = There are 7 days in a week
讓ràng 我wǒ 們men 從cóng 頭tóu 數shù 一yī 遍biàn = Let's count it from the beginning
星xīng 期qī 一yī = Monday
星xīng 期qī 二èr = Tuesday
星xīng 期qī 三sān = Wednesday
星xīng 期qī 四sì = Thursday
星xīng 期qī 五wǔ = Friday
星xīng 期qī 六liù = Saturday
星xīng 期qī 天tiān 我wǒ 們men 去qù 跳tiào 舞wǔ = Sunday (and) let's go

February 7, 2012 二月七日星期二-B

Ocbjectives -
1. 80% of students will be able to recognize 12 months in Chinese
2. 80% of students will be able to recognize the English meaning of 12 Chinese months/
3. 80% of students will be able to translate 12 months from Chinese to English and vice versa
4. 70% of students will recognize the Chinese characters, 一、二、三、大。

Activities -
1. Review Chinese 12 months
2. Play games in pairs by raising up the correct card once a Chinese month is told
3. Work in on the package of twelve months4. Watch video clip about Chinese character's origin on 一、二、三、大。

Before you complete the assignment, please read the instruction first.
Chinese Month Package
Please click Chinese Month Package to access the assignment.
Page 1 Front -write the English meaning to the Chinese words in each box. (12pts)
Page 2 Back - (for reference)
Page 3 Frong -write the English meaning to the Chinese words and vice versa in each box. (24pts)
Page 4 Back - Translate the dates to English. (10pts)
Page 5 Front - Translate the dates to Chinese in characters/symbols. (14pts).
Page 6 Back - color/design the birthday cake (8pts) and write your name and birthday in Chinese character. (2pts)

一yī 二èr 三sān 四sì 五wǔ 六liù 七qī = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
我wǒ 的de 朋péng 友yǒu 在zài 哪nǎ 裡lǐ ?= Where is my friend?
在zài 這zhè 裡lǐ 在zài 這zhè 裡lǐ= here, here
我wǒ 的de 朋péng 友yǒu 在zài 這zhè 裡lǐ = my friend is here


一yī 個gè 星xīng 期qī 有yǒu 七qī 天tiān = There are 7 days in a week
讓ràng 我wǒ 們men 從cóng 頭tóu 數shù 一yī 遍biàn = Let's count it from the beginning
星xīng 期qī 一yī = Monday
星xīng 期qī 二èr = Tuesday
星xīng 期qī 三sān = Wednesday
星xīng 期qī 四sì = Thursday
星xīng 期qī 五wǔ = Friday
星xīng 期qī 六liù = Saturday
星xīng 期qī 天tiān 我wǒ 們men 去qù 跳tiào 舞wǔ = Sunday (and) let's go

Friday, February 3, 2012

February 3, 2012 二月三日星期五

Ocbjectives -
1. 70% of students will be able to recognize 12 months in Chinese
2. 70% of students will be able to recognize the English meaning of 12 Chinese months/
3. 70% of students will be able to translate 12 months from Chinese to English and vice versa

Activities -
1. Introduce Chinese 12 months
2. Make 12 months flash cards and play games in pairs.
3. Work in on the package of twelve months.

Please click package of th months to access the package of twelve months.


Before you complete the assignment, please read the instruction first.
Chinese Month Package
Please click Chinese Month Package to access the assignment.
Page 1 Front -write the English meaning to the Chinese words in each box. (12pts)
Page 2 Back - (for reference)
Page 3 Frong -write the English meaning to the Chinese words and vice versa in each box. (24pts)
Page 4 Back - Translate the dates to English. (10pts)
Page 5 Front - Translate the dates to Chinese in characters/symbols. (14pts).
Page 6 Back - color/design the birthday cake (8pts) and write your name and birthday in Chinese character. (2pts)

Thursday, February 2, 2012

February 1st, 2012 二月一日星期三

Ocbjectives -
1. 90% of students will be familiar with the number 11-20 in Chinese.
2. 90% of students will be able to recognize 'dragon'is one of twelve Zodiac.
3. 80% of students will be able to recognize Chinese number pattern.
4. 70% of students will be able to recognize one Chinese legend- Monkey King.

Activities -
1. Reveiw Chinese number 1-10
2. Whiteboard activites to practice
3. Watch a film named Forbidden King about one Chinese legend - Monkey King.

For those students who already finished the paper dragon, they watched the film named Forbidden King which starred by Jackie Chan and Jet Li. For those students who haven't finished it, they were asked to finish it at the same time watching the film.

We also spent 15 minutes in class reading to fullfill the mission of Read-O-Thon. Students were asked to tell in Chinese how many pages they read and to add up all the pages. Well, good is they all read their numbers in Chinese right; bad is none of them added the numbers right. :))

We went to the field trip to Asian Imperial at 1st lunch and came back around 12:30pm. Students enjoyed the food; they all said "XieXie LaoBan" (Thanks to the owner) to the owner of the restaurant. They did great.

January 30, 2012 一月三十日星期一

Ocbjectives -
1. 80% of students will be familiar with the number 1-10 in Chinese.
2. 80% of students will be able to recognize 'dragon'is one of twelve Zodiac.
3. 70% of students will be able to recognize Chinese number pattern.

Activities -
1. Reveiw Chinese number 1-10
2. Whiteboard activites to practice
3. Flash cards with number 1-50
4. Bingo games to practice speaking the numbers
5. Paper dragon making

The words we write on the board are
一、二、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十
十一、十二、十三、十四、十五、十六、十七、十八、十九、二十
三十、四十、五十、六十、七十、八十、九十

Package of numbers
Please click the package of Numbers to access the assignment; fill-in the missing numbers in Chinese characters.

一yī 二èr 三sān 四sì 五wǔ 六liù 七qī = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
我wǒ 的de 朋péng 友yǒu 在zài 哪nǎ 裡lǐ ?= Where is my friend?
在zài 這zhè 裡lǐ 在zài 這zhè 裡lǐ= here, here
我wǒ 的de 朋péng 友yǒu 在zài 這zhè 裡lǐ = my friend is here