Class Review 3/13

At the beginning of today's class, in order to motive the students speaking, or actually thinking, in Chinese during our Chinese class time, the teacher started a new game. The rule was that, for whoever spoke a whole sentence in English (single English words were okay), including the teacher, he or she will get a (minus) point! The game seemed really working to minimize the students' speaking in English during these two hours of "Chinese time" in a fun way! Except two students, those who spoke less English sentences than the teacher (who spoke twice in English in full sentence), did earn a sticker at the end of today's class!

As for the lesson goes, we started with characters review. The students were shown the recently taught Chinese characters flash cards before the dictation. Then ten random characters from this reviewed pile were dictated. Two students were able to write ten characters all correctly. All students were able to correct themselves and made sure they knew how to write these ten characters afterwards.



Our lesson 19 in our textbook had five new characters. Instead of our usual way of learning each character, we learned them in a more playful way at the first class today. The students played the "Little Detective" game and took turns to find out which character was missing from the display on the ground. Very soon, all students were able to read all these five characters, as well as how to spell their pinyin. However, we didn't have enough time to go through all their writing stroke orders. Instead, we dedicated some time to learn about how those characters were changed over time, from their antient forms. The students were really interested in learing this history, as it gaves them an idea of the original form, as well as the meaning of each character.


Towards the end of today's class, we read the lesson 19 text in the book, only once (given the limited time). We also learned a new children's song about Fruits, and shared our favorite fruits, among small groups and within the whole class.