HS Chinese Guide

SPEAKING

WRITING

When students exhibit Novice Mid speaking ability in partner language, here are examples of the kinds of things they can do: 15.greet someone in a culturally appropriate manner 16.introduce self 17.ask “how are you?” 18.respond appropriately to the question “how are you?” 19.answer simple questions to provide basic information 20.ask simple, formulaic questions 21.provide simple information on subject matter content

When students exhibit Novice Mid writing ability in partner language, here are some examples of the kinds of things they can write: 9. basic personal information (name, address, phone number, birth date) 10.brief descriptions of people or places mostly in list form 11.responses to simple questions 12.simple information related to subject matter content

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building ● Use a variety of visuals to defne Chinese characters for family, occupations, etc. ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate the Chinese characters, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & characters for family and occupations. ● Use Total Physical Response to review Chinese characters and calendar vocabulary. ● Group students to allow opportunity for them to practice Chinese. ● Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters (eg. How many brothers and/or sisters do you have? I have … What is the youngest/oldest? …). ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● Ask and answer simple questions to learn about family members. ● Ask and answer simple questions about family members’ occupations (What’s your mom doing for living? 你的 妈妈 做什么工作？ ) ● Give short oral descriptions of self and family members telling how many are in your family, who they are, how old they are, what they like to do, and what they do for a living. ● Read short paragraphs describing a family (how many people in the family, how old they are, when are their birthdays? 你家有几口人？他 们 几 岁？ 他 们 的生日是几月几日？ ) ● Engage the student in more student-teacher conversation in Chinese aside from regularly planned activities or group the student with other advanced learners who are ready for more challenging dialog. ● Have students ask questions and/or give TPR commands for the class. ● Students ask questions about the topics covered in a lesson (ie. looking at a picture, the Extension

student can ask “Who is …? How old is …? Where …?”). ● Have students provide extended responses/more details. ● Have students recognize and read the characters without Pinyin.

● Provide visual support, word bank, sentence frames for students on describing age, family members, occupations, have students write a short description of your family telling how many people are in your family, who they are, how old they are, and what they do for a living.