Here is my recording of the Rainbow Song.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
KB Lesson 5 – Lesson Plan
1) 咪咪问 - 天气怎么样: 春天, 夏天, 秋天, 冬天 (P80)
2) A play: SUMMER IS HOT 夏天真热
Characters: Narrator, Rain, Panda 平平,大永,小鸟
Location: 动物园
KB Lesson 4 - HW
We’ve completed Flying with Chinese KB Lesson 4 平平不见了this week. Here is the homework for this week. Next week, we’ll learn KB Lesson 5 夏天来了.
1) Please make effort to memorize Shige 春晓。你可以听老师读。
chūn xiǎo
春 晓
chūn mián bù jué xiǎo
春 眠 不 觉 晓,
chǔ chù wén tí niǎo
处 处 闻 啼 鸟.
yè lái fēng yǔ shēng
夜 来 风 雨 声,
huā luò zhī duō shǎo
花 落 知 多 少.
2) Review KB Lesson 1 to 4, and also the vocabulary lists for Lesson 1 to 4. Then answer the following questions.
一。 平平喜欢春天吗?
(a. 喜欢 b. 不喜欢)
二。 平平和大永是朋友吗?
(a. 是 b. 不是)
三。 春天来了,天气不冷也不热。
(a. 对 b. 错)
四。 平平六岁。
(a. 对 b. 错)
五。 平平躲在树上。
(a. 对 b. 错)
对 dui4: right
错 cuo4: wrong
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Chinese Word Seek Puzzles
I’ve been creating Chinese Bingo games and word search puzzles for my students for some time now. But the games and puzzles I’ve been creating are all specific to the Chinese lessons I was teaching at the time, and are very limited in terms of scope and depth.
I recently started to surf many Chinese language sites, and realized that my own Chinese vocabulary need some boost. It gave me idea to create Chinese word seek puzzles.
I wish you enjoy it as much as I do.
Level – Elementary
Level – Intermediate
- 茶文化
Level – Advanced
Level – Superior
Resources
http://www.firemaplegames.com/tgiws.html
http://www.wordsearchmaker.com/
http://www.cruciverb.com/index.php?page=20
http://puzzlejunction.com/SubmissionGuide.pdf
http://word-search.qarchive.org/
Homework – Week 13 KB Lesson 3 春天来了
We’ve completed Flying with Chinese KB Lesson 3 春天来了 this week. Here is the homework for this week. Next week, we’ll learn Lesson 4 平平不见了and Lesson 5 夏天来了.
1. Review the vocabulary List for Lesson 3 春天来了.
2. Read Lesson 3 夏天来了. Then answer the following questions:
- How do you talk about the weather in spring?
- What do you use to 闻花香?
- What do you use to 听鸟叫?
- What does hanzi “雨”mean, and how do you pronounce it?
3. Read and memorize Shige 春晓。你可以听老师读。
chūn xiǎo
春 晓
chūn mián bù jué xiǎo
春 眠 不 觉 晓,
chǔ chù wén tí niǎo
处 处 闻 啼 鸟.
yè lái fēng yǔ shēng
夜 来 风 雨 声,
huā luò zhī duō shǎo
花 落 知 多 少.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Lesson Plan – KB Lesson 3 春天来了
1. Review KB Flying With Chinese Lesson 1 & 2 我和平平,平平有什么
2. Review KB Flying With Chinese P9 - Sing a song “我是大永”.
3. Review conversation: “你叫什么名字?”, “我是汤姆”, “眼睛看一看”
4. Rhythmic Chants Level 2 P80 - “四季歌”Song of the Seasons.
5. KB Flying With Chinese – Lesson 3 “春天来了”
6. I can do these things in Chinese:
- talk about the weather in spring
- use my nose to smell 闻
- use my ears to hear 听
- recite the poem “” with the class
- recognize the hanzi “雨”, know what it means and how to say it
Monday, March 29, 2010
Papers & Presentations, etc.
- A Introduction to Beginner's Chinese
- Post-ACTFL Conference Presentation
- PPS (The Participation Points System)
- WK2 - Commands (More)
- WK2 - Commands11-20
- WK2 - Commands1-10
- WK2 - 5 simple rules
- WK2 - 10 Passwords
- WK4 – Commands (Play Games)
Resources for Blogging
To generate “word clouds” from text that you provide:
http://www.wordle.net/
To share documents online:
http://docs.google.com/
Photo-editing, logos
http://aviary.com/
Stock photography
http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php
Email Blast/Marketing Software
http://swiftpage.com/Pricing/swiftpage.htm
http://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/pricing/
http://www.ratepoint.com/
Chinese Word Search for iPod
http://www.iwalkingfish.com/
Pet Holdings, Inc.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
WordPress
http://wordpress.org/
Commenting Blogs
http://js-kit.com/
Customizable Surveys
http://polldaddy.com/
Invitation, eCard, Party Planning
http://www.evite.com/Screencast Tutorial
http://blog.procasts.co.uk/2009/03/why-screencast-if-a-picture-is-worth-a-1000-words/
Screencast Software
http://thescreencastinghandbook.com/screencast-software/
An Introduction to Screencasting
http://www.idealware.org/articles/screencasting.php
How to Create a Screencast
http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-create-a-screencast
Good online business resources
Resources for Teaching & Learning Chinese
Resources for Teaching & Learning Chinese
LEARN NC and Moodle - On-line K–12 teaching and learning:
http://www.learnnc.org/
Microsoft Office Taiwan:
http://office.microsoft.com/zh-tw
中華民國(台灣)僑務委員會 Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission, R.O.C.(Taiwan):
http://www.ocac.gov.tw/
More Than an online Chinese-English Dictionary:
http://www.nciku.com/
Use MOODLE as an online Teaching Tool:
http://www.huayuworld.org/
UCLA K-12 Language Material Projects:
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/k-12/
Create Your Own Speaking Avatar and Give It a Voice:
http://www.voki.com/
Create Web-based Multimedia Posters:
http://edu.glogster.com/
央视剧西游记全集:
http://www.tudou.com/playlist/id/733/
动画片西游记全集:
http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_1251501.html
Watch Many Videos/Catoons:
http://www.61flash.com/
E-stroke for traditional characers:
http://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.twjsp/
E-stroke for traditional characters:
http://www.eon.com.hk/estroke/
E-stroke for simplifies characters:
http://www.shuifeng.net/pinyin.Asp
E-stroke for simplifies characters:
http://www.eon.com.hk/estroke/
Printable play money:
http://www.moneyinstructor.com/play.asp
Participation Points System to Encourage Classroom Communication:
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Jeffrey-PointsSystem.html
Encouraging Oral Communication in the EFL Classroom:
http://www.nuis.ac.jp/~hadley/publication/partpoints/participation.htm
Chinese Culture Contest 400 Review Questions:
http://www.csaus.net/culturecontest/400questions10.pdf
Mulan 花木兰对外汉语教材:
http://mulan.wikispaces.com/
Watch Mulan 木兰 on Tudou
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/_T1Rri2o9-E/
Watch Lion King 狮子王 on Tudou
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/i0PUKnm7-GY/
FunnelBrain (online Flashcard and Quiz)
http://www.funnelbrain.com/
Online Interactive Games
http://classtools.net/
Web 2.0 Teaching Tools
http://web20teach.blogspot.com/
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
Get a Chinese name
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
中华人民共和国驻美使馆教育处
Education Office of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in USA
http://www.sino-education.org/english/resources.htm
Online MIT Course Materials
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/index.htm
Xiaoma Cidian
http://www.xiaoma.info/hanzi/
时代图书
http://www.timesbook.com/
A Timer
http://classtools.net/education-games-php/timer/
Better Chinese - Learning Chinese Through Stories
http://www.betterchinese.com/
Sunday, March 28, 2010
WK12 - Homework
We’ve completed Flying with Chinese KB Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 this week. Here is the homework for this week. Next week, we’ll learn lesson 3 春天来了.
1. Review the vocabulary List for Lesson 1 我和平平 on page 65.
2. Review the vocabulary List for Lesson 2 平平有什么 on page 65-66.
3. Learn the song 我是大永 on page 9.
4. Read Lesson 1 我和平平 from page 1 to 4. Then answer the following questions:
1) 我叫________________。
2) 我的好朋友叫____________。
3) 我的宠物(chǒng wù )叫____________。
4) 我________________岁(suì)。
5) 动物园(dòng wù yuán)means______________。
6) Do you know Hanzi 友?
5. Read Lesson 2 平平有什么 from page 6 to 8. Then answer the following questions: (你会…)
1) Can you name the parts of your 宠物(chǒng wù )’s face?
2) Can you tell your 朋友 that your 宠物 is cute?
3) Can you tell your 朋友 that you have a 宠物, and what your 宠物’s name is?
4) Can you sing the song “我是大永”?
5) Do you know Hanzi 耳?
Friday, March 26, 2010
KB Lesson 1 – Lesson Plan
1. Introduce Chinese Characters in Grades.
2. Review what we can do in Chinese.
3. KB Flying With Chinese P9 - Sing a song “我是大永”.
4. Rhythmic Chants Level 1 P12 - “你叫什么名字?”What’s your name?
5. Rhythmic Chants Level 1 P17 - “我是汤姆”I am Tom.
6. Rhythmic Chants Level 2 P30 - “眼睛看一看”Take a look.
7. “平平”是谁?Watch a video.
8. 有声教学
9. KB Flying With Chinese – Lesson 1 “我和平平”
10. KB Flying With Chinese – Lesson 2 “平平有什么”
11. I can do these things in Chinese:
- tell who I am
- tell who my friend is
- tell how old I am
- tell how old my friend is
- identify a zoo
- identify a panda
- identity a pet
- recognize the hanzi “友”, know what it means and how to say it
12. I can do these things in Chinese:
- name the parts of my pet’s face
- tell people that my pet is cute
- tell people what my pet has
- sing the song “我是大永”with the class
- recognize the hanzi “耳”, know what it means and how to say it
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Learn Chinese Faster - Character in Grades
“Chinese Character in Grades” is specifically developed for “Easy Literacy". The features are:
1. Character in Grades. For the first time it has partitioned the Chinese characters to different grades based on the usage frequency. The 4608 characters are partitioned to 18 grades for 3 levels. The 1-3 grades are of high-frequency and the 4-6 are second high-frequency, which have the coverage of 83.8% and 9.05% in Chinese literacy. The whole coverage from 1-6 grades is over 93% which means that after learning 1-6 grades you will be literate in Chinese (The 1-6 grades cover 1536 words).
2. Learning characters, words, phrases and vocabularies together.
3. Synchronous teaching. The teaching includes 8 steps which start from characters to sentences. These 8 steps are, characters (sound & shape), understand the characters (literacy), picture (see), word (say), phrase (read), sentence (practice), dialogue (talk) and text (read aloud).
4. Unit testing. Unit testing is designed for each grade including character sequence, phrase sequence, radical choice, character formative, crossing while listening, pair matching, word meaning, wrong sentence correction, riddles, and verses reading. Such systematic training provides a solid foundation for the learners.
5. Large font. Large fonts help the learners in shape and graphics recognition, module memorizing, and cycle review. Different font sizes in each unit also help students to recognize characters in different contexts in the future.
6. Live sound. It provides live sound with a high-tech pen. With the magic pen, the learners will have a mandarin trainer anywhere. The magic pen can make different rhythms, and also teach songs with the texts in the unit lesson. You can also take tests with the magic pen and have the magic pen correct your answers if you need it. It makes great fun to learn “Chinese Character in Grades”.
Pricing - $120, including
- Textbooks 1-6 grades (total 1536 words)
- 1 magic pen
快速识字课:《等级汉字》课本说明
《等级汉字》是中国教育科学“十五”规划重点课题“传统文化教育的现代价值研究及创新实践”的核心成果。它以超常规的速度大幅度提高了语文教学的效果,是专门针对海外学生“识字难”开发的中文课本。《等级汉字》的横空出现,打破了西方语言学指导下建立的汉语教学模式,彻底解决了“汉字难认,汉语难学”这道世界性难题!《等级汉字》具有快速和快乐两大特点。所谓快速是说海外学生一年的识字量用《等级识字》识字的方法五次课就可完成。所谓快乐是说学习有十种儿童喜闻乐见的形式,这些形式是音乐的、图像的、律动的、表演的、行为的、节奏的、冥想的、情景的、游戏的、语言的。
除上述优势外,《等级汉字》还具有以下特点:
1.汉字分级 它是中国首次按照常用字频度划分等级的识字课本。全书4608字分为3等18级,无一字重复。18个级别按降序排列,每一级256个汉字分作4课,每课64个不重复的字。其中1-3级为高频字,覆盖率为83.8%;4-6级为次高频字,覆盖率为9.05%。这6个级别的覆盖率已经超过了93%。从这个意义上说,1-6级共有1536个汉字,学完了6个级别的汉字就等于过了识字关!
2. 字词同进 本书在同级汉字中,按义组合成现代汉语常用词汇,绝大多数是两字一词。这种精确编排使课文呈现出一字一声,两字一词,四字一句,八字一韵的独有特点。学习者一次就能达到识字、组词、造句、习韵的目的。
3. 同步训练 本书针对每课的64字都编有同步训练。同步内容按文、字、词、语、句、话、段、篇的顺序分为八项:汉字(认一认)、字理(学一学)、图画(看一看)、词汇(讲一讲)、短语(念一念)、句型(练一练)、会话(说一说)、短文(读一读)。
4. 单元测试 每一级汉字安排一次单元测试。测试内容分为句子排序、单字排序、形旁选择、拼形构字、听音划线、配对组合、词意通达、纠正错句、文字谜语、诗歌欣赏等十种形式。这种以字为本位的系统训练,为学生打下了扎实的基础。
5. 大字印刷 本书配合“图形认读,模块记忆、定位联想、循环复习”的韵文教学法,采用象素丰富的大字号印刷,每个单元配有不同的变形字体帮助学生更好的辨认字形。
6. 真人发声 本书采用高科技排版,能够真人发声。选配一支发声笔,就等于带了一个老师随时随地进行普通话教学。她能打出不同的节奏型,把每篇课文编成歌曲教唱,也能对你做出各种测试,当你不会做时,她还能帮助你找出答案。使用本书学习让你感到趣味无穷。
Friday, March 19, 2010
等级汉字Pricing – Published by Prof Guo
教材价格是:
等级汉字全套: 120美金. 包括汉字1-6级, 共6本书1536个汉字. 一支识字神奇发声笔.
巧妙书写一套: 28美金
Pricing for Chinese Character in Grades
1) $120: including all 6 textbooks (cover 1536 Chinese characters) and the magic pen
2) $28: writing sheets
Presentation from Prof Guo Baohua
“汉字难认,汉语难学”- 快速识字
How to Learn Chinese 15-20 Times Faster
Prof Guo Baohua’s presentation focuses on:
- Why teaching Chinese with the methods of teaching English is not effective
- Teaching English start with vocabulary, sentence, and enter into reading right away
- Teaching Chinese needs to start with 汉字Hanzi, and in the order of 字,词,语,句。Teaching in the reverse order is not effective.
- 汉字Hanzi or 字 is originated from pictograms. But Contrary to popular belief, pictograms 象形字 make up only a small portion of Chinese characters.
- 指事字 zhǐshìzì (Ideogrammic compounds) or ideograms modify existing pictographs iconically, or are direct iconic illustrations. For instance, by modifying 刀 dāo, a pictogram for "knife", by marking the blade, an ideogram 刃 rèn for "blade" is obtained. Direct examples include 上 shàng "up" and 下 xià "down". This category is small.
- 会意字 / 會意字 huìyìzì symbolically combine pictograms or ideograms to create a third character. For instance, doubling the pictogram 木 mù "tree" produces 林 lín "grove", while tripling it produces 森 sēn "forest".
- 形声字 / 形聲字 xíngshēngzì: By far the most numerous category are the phono-semantic compounds, also called semantic-phonetic compounds or pictophonetic compounds.
- All Hanzi have 声,形,和意。
Sunday, March 14, 2010
WK10 - Homework
We’ve finished the book KA, which has total 9 lessons. You can find links at the bottom of this blog “Favorit Links” section to all the lessons, vocabulary lists, lesson plans, and homework, songs and writing practice for each weeks.
1. Review the Weekdays 星期. Listen to the recording, and answer the following questions.
a)
On which weekday, 丽丽goes to dance?
b)
On which weekday, 妈妈rests?
c)
On which weekday, 丽丽did her 中文homework。
d)
What day is today?
e)
What day is tomorrow?
2. Review Lesson 9 孙悟空,再见, and 来来来, 孙悟空,请下来! Listen to the recording, and answer the following questions.
3. 我会:Answer the following questions in 中文。
Friday, March 12, 2010
WK10 – Lesson Plan
Objective: Students will be able to
- ask someone to come down
- make the suggestions
- say goodby and welcome back
- last week’s homework
- review lesson 1 – 8
- counting 数一数, and weekdays 星期
- 来来来,孙悟空,请下来
- Lesson 9 – 孙悟空,再见
- 10 words
- 我会 I can:
WK10 - 来来来, 孙悟空,请下来!
lái lái lái sūn wù kōng qǐng xià lái
来 来 来,孙 悟 空,请 下 来!
sūn wù kōng nǐ xià lái
孙 悟 空,你 下 来.
sūn wù kōng nǐ guò lái
孙 悟 空,你 过 来.
lái lái lái sūn wù kōng qǐng xià lái
来 来 来,孙 悟 空,请 下 来!
nǐ yào zuò shén me
你 要 做 什 么?
huà huà chàng gē tiào wǔ
画 画?唱 歌?跳 舞?
hē shuǐ hē kě lè hē guǒ zhī
喝 水?喝 可 乐?喝 果 汁?
chī diǎn xīn chī bǐng gān
吃 点 心?吃 饼 干?
chī píng guǒ chī xiāng jiāo
吃 苹 果?吃 香 蕉?
wǒ men yī qǐ huà huà hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 画 画,好 吗?
wǒ men yī qǐ chàng gē hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 唱 歌,好 吗?
wǒ men yī qǐ tiào wǔ hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 跳 舞,好 吗?
wǒ men yī qǐ hē shuǐ hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 喝 水,好 吗?
wǒ men yī qǐ hē kě lè hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 喝 可 乐,好 吗?
wǒ men yī qǐ hē guǒ zhī hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 喝 果 汁,好 吗?
wǒ men yī qǐ chī diǎn xīn hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 吃 点 心,好 吗?
wǒ men yī qǐ chī bǐng gān hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 吃 饼 干,好 吗?
wǒ men yī qǐ chī píng guǒ hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 吃 苹 果,好 吗?
wǒ men yī qǐ chī xiāng jiāo hǎo ma
我 们 一 起 吃 香 蕉,好 吗?
bù bù bù wǒ bú yào
不 不 不,我 不 要.
bù bù bù wǒ bù hē
不 不 不,我 不 喝.
bù bù bù wǒ bù chī
不 不 不,我 不 吃.
bù bù bù wǒ bù xià lái
不 不 不,我 不 下 来!
wǒ yào fēi fēi shàng tiān
我 要 飞, 飞 上 天.
wǒ yào fēi fēi huí jiā
我 要 飞, 飞 回 家.
wǒ yào fēi fēi huí zhōng guó
我 要 飞, 飞 回 中 国.
huān yíng huān yíng
欢 迎,欢 迎,
huān yíng huān yíng
欢 迎,欢 迎,
huān yíng nǐ zài lái wán
欢 迎 你,再 来 玩!
zài jiàn zài jiàn
再 见,再 见,
zài jiàn zài jiàn
再 见,再 见,
sūn wù kōng zài jiàn
孙 悟 空,再 见!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
WK9 - Homework
1. Review Counting 数一数, then listen to the recording below, and answer the following questions.
a) Which day of the week she like?
b) Which day of the week she goes to Chinese school.
c) which day of week does Li Laoshi like?
2. Review lesson 8 vocabulary list
3. Review What do you want to eat 你们吃什么 (nǐ men chī shén me), and Lesson 8 I want to go home 我要回家 (wǒ yào huí jiā), then listen to the recording below, and answer the following questions.
a) Does 莉莉(lì lì)want to drink water?
b) What 孙悟空(sūn wù kōng) does not want to eat?
c) Does 孙悟空 seem to be happy or seem to be sick?
d) What do they want to 喝(hē)?
e) What does 孙悟空 want to 喝(hē)?
f) Is 孙悟空 sick?
g) Where is 孙悟空’s 家(jiā)?
4. (optional) Writing Practice P5-8
Friday, March 5, 2010
WK9 – Lesson Plan
Objective: Students will be able to
- offer something to eat or drink
- ask what’s wrong
- say they don’t want something
- express surprise
- talk about being sick
- last week’s homework
- review lesson 1 – 7
- counting 数一数
- What do you eat 你们吃什么?
- Lesson 8 – I want to go home 我要回家
- Song – Lesson 8 小猴子
- 我会 I can:
WK9 – What do you eat 你们吃什么?
wǒ men chī bǐng gān nǐ men chī shén me
我 们 吃 饼 干, 你 们 吃 什 么?
wǒ men chī diǎn xīn
我 们 吃 点 心.
wǒ men chī jiǎo zi nǐ men chī shén me
我 们 吃 饺 子,你 们 吃 什 么?
wǒ men chī bāo zi
我 们 吃 包 子.
wǒ men chī píng guǒ nǐ men chī shén me
我 们 吃 苹 果, 你 们 吃 什 么?
wǒ men chī xiāng jiāo
我 们 吃 香 蕉.
wǒ men hē kě lè nǐ men hē shén me
我 们 喝 可 乐,你 们 喝 什 么?
wǒ men hē guǒ zhī
我 们 喝 果 汁.
wǒ men hē kā fēi nǐ men hē shén me
我 们 喝 咖 啡,你 们 喝 什 么?
wǒ men hē niú nǎi
我 们 喝 牛 奶.
wǒ men hē tāng nǐ men hē shén me
我 们 喝 汤, 你 们 喝 什 么?
wǒ men hē shuǐ
我 们 喝 水.
bǐng gān diǎn xīn dà jiā chī
饼 干, 点 心, 大 家 吃.
jiǎo zi bāo zi dà jiā chī
饺 子, 包 子, 大 家 吃.
píng guǒ xiāng jiāo dà jiā chī
苹 果, 香 蕉, 大 家 吃.
kě lè guǒ zhī dà jiā hē
可 乐, 果 汁, 大 家 喝.
kā fēi niú nǎi dà jiā hē
咖 啡, 牛 奶, 大 家 喝.
tāng tāng shuǐ shuǐ dà jiā hē
汤 汤, 水 水, 大 家 喝.
New vocabulary:
吃 (chī): eat
喝 (hē): drink
饼 干 (bǐng gān): Biscuits / crackers
点 心 (diǎn xīn ): cookies
饺子 (jiǎo zi):
包子(bāo zi ):
苹果 (píng guǒ): apple
香蕉(xiāng jiāo): banana
可乐(kě lè): Coke Cola
果汁(guǒ zhī ): juice
咖啡(kā fēi): coffee
牛奶(niú nǎi): milk
汤(tāng): soup
水(shuǐ): water