十二月十日星期一 December 10, Monday - B Day

Today 5th period's pace is quite slow and noisy; few students came in late with their breakfast; eating their breakfast and not paying attention to the lesson which we read the page 16 on the textbook "I Love Learning Chinese"我愛學中文. The teacher first reviewed the words learned since last two week and read sentence by sentence.  The teacher asked voluntary students to translate it and we went through this process twice. Next the students were asked to copy down the story in pinyin and translate the story into English. They also needed to copy down the questions and answer the questions in pinyin. For those students who were done faster than the others, they paired up and did the speed writing; their objective is to finish reading the story in 15 seconds. Of course for those students who brought breakfast in they didn't pay attention and kept asking details and English meanings. Sad to say that they had been waiting for help but not self-reliant.

6th period was great and respectful class. As usual we reviewed all the words and went through the story in translation. We had more time to do the TPRS circling questions. Next, students were the students were asked to copy down the story in pinyin and translate the story into English. They also needed to copy down the questions and answer the questions in pinyin. Most of the 6th period students finished all the assignments in 20 minutes while 5th period took an hour to do the same assignment.  So, 6th period students were able to watch IP man 2 for 15 minutes.

If you are absent today and would like to receive your participation and assignment's grade; you will need to
copy down the story in pinyin, translate it into English, copy down the question in pinyin, and answer the questions in pinyin.


坐在地上zuò zài dì shàng = sit on the floor
走到那裡zǒu dào nà lǐ = walk over to....
頭髮 tóu fà = hair

十二月七日星期五 December 7, Friday- A Day

For Chinese Level I, II, &III, today is the last time of the mid-term for grade; we first reviewed all the words taught, and gave students some time to study the notes and words. Next we had a quiz on the topic; 15 questions about the words taught for the last two weeks.

十二月五日星期三 December 5, Wednesday - A Day

I was sick and laid in bed all day so I asked a sub to help me out. We watched video about Terro Cotta and/or Chinese food. I heard the students say that they played the color game with the sub because the video was too boring for them to finish it. :)

十二月六日星期四 December 6, Thursday - B Day

I had a training today about language labs that we're going to install one in our school. I learned lots of communicative activities. For the students they watched the video about Chinese cultures.

十二月四日星期二 December 4, Tuesday - B Day

We reviewed the old words and worked on the story.

十二月三日星期一 December 3, Monday- A Day

For Chinese Level I, First we introduced three words - 書, 畫, 圖. We compared the smiliarity and differences between 書 and 畫 and the words among 馬, 媽, and 嗎. Next we read the story and use circling questions. Students were asked to translate the story to English and then answer the questions 1-30. We discussed the answers together. Next we played flashcards.

For Chinese Level II and III, first we switched the seats and have students made name tags in their Chinese names and look up the dictionaries to know what their Chinese names mean.

 

Next, we worked on the package of the story which there are 4 pages; 1st page with full pinyin, 2nd page with 80% pinyin, 3rd page with 60% pinyin, and 4th page without pinyin. For Level III students their goal is to read the article without pinyin while Level II students to read the article with 80% pinyin. We translated the article into English and make sure students understand its meanings. After that we practice reading; page by page. Liam S. challenged to read the article without pinyin and he did a great job.

十一月三十日星期五 November 30, Friday - B Day

For Chinese Level I, we work on the story reading. We first read aloud the story sentence by sentence and use circling questions to check comprehension. After that, students were asked to translate the story into English and then answer the questions from questions 1-10 or 1-15.  Next we used the flashcards made before and played bingo again. After binggo game, students introduced their family in the target language.