One from a student who has been working hard at Mandarin all year.
It's been a good week, and sometimes it's nice to receive some positive feedback when you're feeling tired and drained from the year's effort! One from a student who has been working hard at Mandarin all year. One from a parent in one of my Indonesian classes.
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Based on "Di dalam Hutan" big book, which is very old, but big books are always great fun with kids.
Below are lots of work samples for a variety of abilities. What's more important that this project allowed ALL students to achieve. In Term 4, I have been focusing on students' productive writing in Mandarin, particularly reading and writing characters. I scaffolded the student's writing in physical descriptions with examples, powerpoints and videos. Increased introductions of different types of radicals. Students retention for characters is much higher. For the story writing, we used Memrise.com to get familiar with at least 10 -15 verbs. Some of the students really love it, others not so much. The very visual learners enjoy it. I used those words to tell in TPRS style (but very badly) a story using the different verbs, played a few games. Then said; "Be free little ones!", and allowed them free range in how they chose to tackle the story. We focused on using characters from Kung Fu Panda, which has been the BEST free advertising promotion of learning Mandarin ever. The students absolutely LOVE the movie, and it really helped introduce China to them. Below are some examples of the final result. I have been very impressed by the calibre in writing. Some students went crazy on Google/online dictionaries, but most didn't stray too far. They manipulated language they had learnt in class to create new sentences. It was interesting and very organic how they were able to procure the necessary knowledge to create a good story. These particular pieces of work have just flabbergasted me with how creative these students can be!
Some homework that my Year 8 Mandarin students created for their assessment this term.
The theme was Celebrations, and students needed to depict a scene of a celebration in China or Australia and write a diary entry about it. I'm very impressed by some of the final products! |
Jenai LeeA keen bean languages teacher forever a thirsty learner, looking for ways to engage students in a different culture! Working at Tranby College, Baldivis, Western Australia. Categories
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