Unit 1: My Typical Day

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1 Carlisle Public Schools 8th grade Chinese Class Curriculum September Content: Skills: Unit 1: My Typical Day How do I express what I do and when? How does our environment influence our daily activities? Places Scheduling (time) Where you want to go Activities sports, after school recreation Tell time with correct dayparts Type the Pinyin/characters for time and dayparts and understand the 24-hour clock Name activities done in a typical day Say when one does certain activities Say from when to when one has a class Read characters for time, dayparts and daily activities Write from memory the characters for daily activities Say how often one engages in hobbies Understand terms for different school subjects Recognize dates on a calendar or appointment book Vocabulary Culture Moon Festival - Poem, - Song: Represents my Heart Tai chi and martial arts Fun with Chinese Yo Yo or Chinese Checkers Circle characters learned from a list of student clubs Type an inviting someone to do something over the weekend Poster presentation: My Weekly Schedule My weekly schedule, including daily schedule. Present using poster, either handwriting or printing characters. Use Chinese whenever possible. Sample: wǒ zǎoshàng liù diǎn qǐ chuáng Xiàwǔ liǎng diǎn èr shí fēn fàng xué Wǒ zhōng wǔ yì diǎn chī fàn. wǒ xīng qí yī xià wǔ sì diǎn yǒu zúqiú kè. 1

2 October Continue My Typical Day November Unit 2: Location and Directions What is Feng-shui? How does knowing the layout of a Chinese city and being aware of Chinese architecture help me have a deeper understanding of China? Content: Location Giving directions A Chinese city Feng-shui Skills: State the location of a person or object Use street directions vocabulary Ask how to go someplace Express where one wants to go Provide oral and written directions from one place to another Create a replica of a Chinese city Vocabulary... Key structures:, Characters: Culture Feng-shui Chinese Saying Street map Pre-reading and after-reading activities Jie long (connecting the dragon) game da feng chui (big wind blow) games character searching game Dialogue making and presentation December: Continue Location and Directions 2

3 January Unit 3: Weather How do the weather and seasons impact what we do? Content: Weather Seasons Activities at different times Skills: Use and understand weather terms Give a weather report for the day Recognize weather terms used in Chinese media Discuss doing activities based on weather/season Asking the question when using Vocabulary Key structures: Characters: Culture Winter poem Harbin Ice Festival Ice skating/biking in Beijing videos Weather report: Students are randomly assigned a date during the year and create appropriate weather report, also say today s a good day to February Unit 4: Clothing What are you wearing today? What do Chinese students wear to school? Content: Clothing Measure Words for clothing Stating when Skills: Name articles of clothing with measure words Ask someone what to wear Describe the color of one s clothing Stating when using Vocabulary Key Structures: M 3

4 Culture March Characters: Chinese clothing history Taking off shoes when visit one s house. Weekend Clothes Survey: What did you wear over the weekend? Type of clothing + number + measure word On ActivBoard, students show picture/photo of person/animal, say what he/she is wearing and the colors of the clothing Unit 5: Shopping and Bargaining Content: Shopping Money Bargaining Skills: Bargaining when shopping in China Buying clothes, drinks and fruit Vocabulary Culture Key Structures Characters: The night market Bargaining Role play The night market shopping 4

5 April Unit 6: Travel in China Content: Skills: Travel modes, schedules Talk about different transportation options Understand a train schedule Vocabulary Transportation:,, Key Structures: Characters:, Culture Train schedules in China A Chinese saying Plan an itinerary for a trip to China May BIG Final Project: My Summer in China Presentation on a travel/study visit to China, when you ll go, what you ll do at different times, places/buildings/sights to visit, what you ll bring with you (clothes), information about your homestay family, your school schedule in China. June: Final Presentation to parents & teachers 5