Unit title: 嗨！Hi! Introducing yourself in Chinese Area of interaction focus Which area of interaction will be our focus? Why have we chosen this? Significant concepts What are the big ideas? What do we want our students to retain for years into the future? Human Ingenuity The creation and use of language as a means of communicating. Exploring grammatical patterns as a way of building and creating language. Language is a foundation for everyday life, human interaction and general learning. Communication with others always depends on some form of language. MYP unit question How can we benefit from learning a foreign language? How is learning a symbol/character-based language different to learning an alphabet based language?
Greetings LO: Ask how someone is and respond.
Question particle – yes/no question ma 吗 Question particle – yes/no question
nǐ hǎo 你好 hello you good
nǐ hǎo ma 你好吗？ you good question word How are you?
wǒ hěn hǎo 我很好 very good
wǒ bù hǎo 我不好 not good
wǒ bu hěn hǎo 我不很好 not very good
question word – repeats the previous question ne 呢？ question word – repeats the previous question
nǐ ne 你呢？ What about you? And you?
吗
你好吗？
我很好
我不好
我不很好
呢？
你呢？
你呢？ 你好吗？ 我不很好 呢？ 吗？ 我很好 我不好
三 吗？ 一 二 你呢？ 你好吗？ 呢？ 我很好 五 四 我不很好 六 七 我不好
Writing Write the phrases into your vocabulary book. Use the character sheet to practise your writing.
一 好 上 早 老师好 二 不 忙 你 忙 三 见 师 老 再 早上好 四 不 忙 我 五 吗 你 好 你忙不忙 Character challenge! Can you reshuffle the following sentences into the correct word order? e.g. 老 好 师 >>> 一 好 上 早 二 不 忙 你 忙 三 见 师 老 再 四 不 忙 我 五 吗 你 好 六 好， 呢 我 你 不 很 老师好 早上好 你忙不忙 老师再见 我不忙 你好吗 我不很好， 你呢
Speaking Go round the class asking how people are and tally up your answers. Remember!!!! Extend your speaking skills by greeting each person with a greeting we have learnt and say goodbye. Use 你呢 to ask them how they are if they have already asked you.
你好，你好吗？你妈妈好吗？ 你今天忙不忙？我今天很忙！ 你多大？我十三岁。 再见 You received the email below from a pen friend, how much can you translate? 你好，你好吗？你妈妈好吗？ 你今天忙不忙？我今天很忙！ 你多大？我十三岁。 再见 今天 = Today Hello, how are you? How is your Mum? Are you busy today? Today I am very busy! How old are you? I am 13 years old. Goodbye
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