Week 38
9 June 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening, speaking, reading, writing final
8 June 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab & grammar final
7 June 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading task practice
2. Grammar practice
6 June 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Writing task practice
5 June 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review packet
Week 37
2 June 2017 (Friday)
Final review
1 June 2017 (Thursday)
Final review
31 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Final review
30 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Final review
Week 36
26 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Finals review
25 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities, TOHS only:
1. Finals review-- question words
24 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities, RMS only:
1. Finals review-- question words
23 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Finals review-- character writing
Homework:
1. Score 100% on the finals quizlet test
22 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 5 vocab/grammar/writing/speaking assessment (RMS only)
2. Quizlet
Week 35
19 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Chapter 5 vocab/grammar/writing/speaking assessment
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Chapter 5 reflection
18 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Chapter 5 listening/reading assessment
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Movie, Lost on Journey
17 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. More unit review
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Chapter 5 listening/reading assessment
16 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. More unit review
15 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. More unit review
Week 34
12 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Review next week's assessments
2. Review activities
11 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice assessment: vocabulary, listening, reading/writing
10 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review day: listening and speaking practice
9 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review translation and character writing practice
2. 觉得
Homework:
1. Google Form
8 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Cultural discussion (TOHS only)
Week 33
5 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot: 我们的爱好
2. Speaking practice
4 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Translation warm-up
2. 算了、找、别人
3. Dialogue reading
Homework:
1. Google Form
3 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review translation and character writing practice
2. 觉得、没有意思
3. Bingo
2 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review 好久不见
1 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Translation and character writing practice
Week 32
28 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Character reading practice
2. Listening practice
3. 《好久不见》
27 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Character writing warm-up
2. 因为...所以...
Homework:
1. Workbook, p. 61 A, B (RMS)
26 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar structure: Because...therefore...
2. Planning for the weekend
3. Characters recognition quiz
Homework:
1. Workbook, p. 61-62 A, B, C
25 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice character recognition quiz
2. Dialogue 1 reading practice
3. Retelling the story orally
4. Exit slip
Homework:
1. Workbook, p. 61-62 A, B, C (TOHS)
2. Quizlet test 100% (RMS)
24 April 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet
Week 31
21 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up
2. Vocab review
3. Speaking practice
4. 大风吹
20 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab review
2. Speaking practice
3. Characters writing practice
Homework:
1. Complete characters writing practice
19 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: making sentences into questions
2. Hobbies/likes vocabulary introduction
Homework:
1. Google Form
18 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Redwood: Presentational prep day (characters practice for groups who are done)
2. TOHS: Review day
Week 30
7 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentational speaking assessment
6 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Speaking, writing, grammar assessment
5 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening and reading assessment
4 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice
2. Speaking practice
3. Characters practice
4. Redwood: project prep time
3 April 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review and project feedback time
2. Characters practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 29
31 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. US and Chinese cultural perspectives on US and Chinese food
30 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Assign presentational task
2. Presentational task work time
3. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Presentational task text rough draft
29 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. China trip interest
2. Characters review
3. Homework review
4. Practice writing assessment
5. Practice reading assessment
28 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review
2. Practice listening assessment
3. Practice vocab/grammar assessment
Homework:
1. Google Form
27 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review
2. Talking about the weekend
3. Listening, speaking, writing practice
Homework
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 28
24 March 2017 (Friday)
TOHS: Typing and editing a self-intro
RMS: Finish interviewing classmates
23 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review exit slip (TOHS) and word order (RMS) and 见 (both)
2. Favorite movies and class profile (RMS)
3. Kahoot
4. 中文名
5. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
22 March 2017 (Wednesday) (Redwood)
Class Activities:
1. Learning classmates' Chinese names (written characters) and favorite music, movies, food.
Homework:
1. Pick three classmates, and write in complete sentences about their favorite music, movies, and food.
22 March 2017 (Wednesday) (TOHS)
Class Activities:
1. Collect class profiles
2. Character writing practice: country names, music, movies, times of day
3. Viewing a theater website and inviting a friend to see a movie based on it
4. Exit slip
Homework:
1. Visit the website of Shanghai's Grand Cinema theater and choose a film. Write:
-Its name in characters
-Its name in Pinyin
-Its name in English
-Three times at which it is playing today, and in which theater rooms.
21 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Learn classmates' favorite movies and foods, and finish the class profile
20 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. CVSC
2. Warm-up
3. Learning classmates' Chinese names (written characters) and favorite music
Class Activities, Redwood:
1. Quizlet
2. Using dictionary apps and Wikipedia to find your favorite movie in Chinese
Homework:
1. Copy a movie poster for your favorite movie, but use the Chinese title (Redwood).
Week 27
17 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz
2. Using Pleco and Wikipedia to find your favorite movie in Chinese (TOHS)
Homework:
1. Movie poster assignment (TOHS)
16 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up/review
2. 30 second skits
3. Some different movies from 中国、美国
Homework:
1. Characters practice sheet
15 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up/review
2. Speaking practice: specific structures
3. Telephone
Homework:
1. Google Form
14 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: Correcting errors
2. Word order practice
3. Listening practice: Filling out schedules with free time and busy time
4. Speaking practice: Finding time to go out for food, coffee, movies
(Redwood: Chinese mathematics and pi)
Homework:
1. Complete Quizlet study sheet
13 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: Listening practice
2. Quizlet flashcards: character recognition
3. Writing practice using flashcards
4. Match
5. Exit slip
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 26
10 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz 2
2. 因为 and 为什么
3. Reading a more detailed conversation
4. 电话
9 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. 早饭/午饭/晚饭
Homework:
1. Workbook p. 56
2. Study for vocab quiz tomorrow
8 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. 跟 gēn
3. Story listening
4. Story telling
Homework:
1. Google Form (retelling the story in writing)
7 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. 中国、外国
2. 我[time]请你...
3. 喜 character
Homework:
1. Google Form
6 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz 1 (Redwood)
2. Review
3. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 25
3 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. World Language Survey (TOHS)
2. Vocab quiz 1 (TOHS)
3. Review game
2 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. HW and assessment makeups
2. Reading the textbook dialogue
3. Reading the dialogues from the homework
4. Review-oriented speaking tasks
Homework:
1. Workbook p. 47 B (A还是B pattern)
1 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice: understanding invitations
2. Speaking practice: 我[time]有空,我[time]有事
3. Speaking practice: 我[time]请你...,怎么样?
Homework, TOHS:
1. Write a dialogue in characters between two people:
-A invites B to ______.
-B declines, but makes another suggestion.
-A agrees, asks if B has time at _______.
-B says they're busy then, but suggests ____ instead.
-A agrees.
Homework, Redwood:
1. Put each of these sentences into Chinese:
a) I invite you to eat Chinese food, ok?
b) Sorry, I don't like Chinese food, how about American food?
c) Great. Do you at 3:00 have time?
d) I at 3:00 don't have time. How about 4:00?
28 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet and writing practice
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
27 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. New vocab: eat food, listen to music, watch movies
2. Times of day recognition practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 24
24 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Culture minute: Listening practice and cultural discussion
23 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Listening practice
3. Speaking practice: 我请你_____,好吗?
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Review times of day
22 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Free time / busy time
2. How to invite a friend to coffee/lunch
3. Review
Homework:
1. Google Form
21 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 3, dialogue 1
2. Times of day
Homework:
1. Times of day activity
Week 23
16 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Unit reflection
2. Presentational project
15 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Enter WebZone and search for ChineseAssessment
Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Assessment 3
Assessment 4
MDBG
Interpersonal assessment
Project work time
14 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Enter WebZone and search for ChineseAssessment
Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Assessment 3
Assessment 4
MDBG
13 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Assessments review
Homework:
1. Study for Tuesday's unit assessments (see study sheet)
Week 22
10 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz #3
2. Cultural perspectives on zodiac, blood type, and personality
Homework:
1. Project work (due Thursday)
09 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. What foods are considered lucky in China?
2. Interpersonal practice assessment
Homework:
1. Workbook p. 77-78, activities A-C (Use Pleco or a handwriting-based dictionary if you need help with the characters!)
08 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Project work time-- finish Chinese rough draft
07 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: character rearrangement, unit 1
2. Review HW
3. Measure word review
4. Reading a menu and ordering beverages
Homework:
1. Complete rough draft in Chinese of skit by tomorrow.
2. Interpersonal practice assessment on Thursday
3. Vocab quiz 3 on Friday
06 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: "对不起,我的中文不好!“
2. Kahoot
3. Quizlet practice
4. Document reading
Homework:
1. Textbook chapter 5 dialogue 1 reading (Google Form)
2. Interpersonal practice assessment on Thursday
3. Vocab quiz 3 on Friday
Week 21
03 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 3, vocab quiz #2
2. Skit prep time
3. 《对不起我的中文不好》
Homework:
1. Work on skit
02 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review vocabulary
2. Reading practice- dialogue
3. Listening practice
4. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Review for vocab quiz 2 and interpretive pre-assessment
01 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Speaking practice- Zodiac signs
2. Measure words 个/杯/瓶
3. Listening practice- sentences
4. Speaking practice- asking for a beverage
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Vocab quiz 2 and interpretive pre-assessment on Friday
31 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Character reading practice and correction
2. Speaking practice
3. Presentational task prep time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
30 January 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Interpersonal: Meeting someone over chat (Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, Group 5, Group 6, Group 7)
3. Quizlet
4. Presentational project work time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 20
27 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary quiz 1
2. 新年快乐!
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
26 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Assign presentational task (due Thursday, February 16)
2. Listening practice- individual words
3. Reading practice- individual words
4. Structures- 在[place][verb]
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. 明天 wear 红色!
25 January 2017 (Wednesday)\
Class Activities:
1. Study vocabulary
24 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Distribute Unit 3 vocabulary supplement (this is Chapter 5 in your textbook)
3. Quizlet- vocab practice
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 19
20 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities (Redwood):
1. Characters practice
2. Word construction with familiar characters
19 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities (TOHS):
1. Finish Last Train Home
Class Activities (Redwood):
1. Yang Hui's Triangle
17 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet
Homework:
1. 30 words on Quizlet study sheet (TOHS)
2. Write these characters three times each: 兔,蛇,猴,鸡,狗,猪 (Redwood). Click on character links for stroke order.
Week 18
12/13 January 2017 (Thursday/Friday)
Class Activities*:
1. Speaking practice: 我介绍一下...
2. Listening practice/Flyswatter: beverages
3. Speaking practice: Visiting a home
Homework*:
1. TOHS: Google Form
2. Redwood: Google Form
*Due to a high absence rate from the TOHS class on Thursday, this agenda has been rescheduled to Friday. Today's class was a question/answer session about China, Chinese history, and contemporary Chinese culture. We covered the following topics:
-How are foreigners treated in China?
-What can you expect in your first month if you study abroad in China?
-What are some of the biggest Western influences on Chinese culture?
-How is school different in China?
11 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Correct sentences from yesterday
2. Listening practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
10 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review days of the week
2. Speaking practice: Visiting a home, introducing a friend, asking for a beverage
3. Vocabulary for beverages
9 January 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Culture: Going home for New Year
2. Speaking practice: What sign do you belong to?
3. Speaking practice: Visiting a house/answering the door
4. How to introduce a friend to someone
Homework:
1. Read this webpage and write a short, 2-3 sentence paragraph summarizing how Chinese people determine which foods are lucky for the New Year celebration.
Week 17
6 January 2017 (Friday)**REDWOOD
Class Activities, Redwood:
1. Zodiac review
2. Speaking practice: What sign do you belong to?
3. Legend of the Chinese zodiac
4. Visiting a house/answering the door
Homework, Redwood:
1. Google Form
6 January 2017 (Friday)**TOHS
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Speaking practice
2. Verb 喜欢
3. Review games
5 January 2017 (Thursday)**REDWOOD
Class Activities, Redwood:
1. Review homework
2. Kahoot
3. Writing practice
4. Chinese zodiac, 十二生肖
Homework, Redwood:
1. Memorize the chorus from the zodiac song: “shǔ niú hǔ tù, lóng shé mǎ yáng, hóu jī gǒu zhū”
5 January 2017 (Thursday)**TOHS
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Zodiac review
2. Speaking practice: What sign do you belong to?
3. Legend of the Chinese zodiac
4. Visiting a house/answering the door
Homework, TOHS:
1. Google Form
4 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities (TOHS only):
1. Review homework
2. Kahoot
3. Writing practice
4. Chinese zodiac, 十二生肖
Homework (TOHS only):
1. Memorize the chorus from the zodiac song: “shǔ niú hǔ tù, lóng shé mǎ yáng, hóu jī gǒu zhū”
3 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Return final exams
2. Comparing calendars
3. Days of the week, and today/yesterday/tomorrow
4. Some important dates coming up
Homework:
1. Write the characters 星、期、今、昨、明、天
2. Answer these questions in Chinese sentences:
-今天是星期几?
-昨天是星期几?
-明天是星期几?
Week 16
16 December 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Holiday party
15 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Speaking assessments
14 December 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening assessment
2. Semester 1 eval
3. Project work time
Homework:
1. Prepare for assessments
2. Complete project
13 December 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab, reading, writing assessments
Homework:
1. Prepare for assessments
12 December 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Assessment review
Homework:
1. Prepare for assessments
Week 15
9 December 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Review Kahoot
2. Continue work on projects
Homework:
1. Add 20 words to Quizlet study sheet
8 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Spot-it character game
2. Learning 都
3. Guided conversations
Homework:
1. Google Form
7 December 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Pearl Harbor and the Sino-Japanese War
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Writing a letter to a pen-pal
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 20 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
6 December 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Check HW
2. Assign final project (TOHS only)
3. Introductions review
4. Introductions speaking practice
5. Favorite color
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 20 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
5 December 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Current events: Taiwan and the president-elect
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 20 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
Week 14
Extra credit:
Conejo Chinese Cultural Association--Youth Commission
Monthly meeting and Potluck
Westlake Village City Hall, Big Community Room
31200 Oak Crest Drive, Westlake Village
Sunday 12/4, 4:00-6:15pm
2 December 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet review
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 20 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
1 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Turn in packets
2. Review chapter 2 vocabulary
3. Review games
Homework:
1. Google Form
30 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review chapter 1 vocabulary, numbers, colors
Homework:
1. (TOHS) Google Form
2. (RMS) Finish packet
28-29 November 2016 (Monday & Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review packet
2. Characters practice sheet
Week 13
18 November 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentational speaking assessment
17 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Interpersonal speaking assessment
2. Prep for presentational speaking assessment
16 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Unit 2 listening assessment
2. Unit reflection
Homework:
1. Prepare for interpersonal speaking assessment tomorrow
15 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Unit 2 reading/writing assessment
2. Tour of Nanjing University neighborhood
Homework:
1. Prepare for unit 2 listening assessment tomorrow
14 November 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice assessments: Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
2. Review games
Homework:
1. Review! Use Quizlet, the textbook, and/or your vocab list.
Week 12
10 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. View Last Train Home
Homework:
1. Complete Last Train Home reflection
9 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Instagram posts
2. Speaking practice
8 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Write a paragraph about your family
2. Chat practice
Homework:
1. Preview Instagram posts
7 November 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening activity from workbook
2. Reading practice
3. Creating a dialogue, using your family.
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 11
4 November 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. HW check
2. Reading practice
3. Kahoot
4. Speaking practice
3 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Characters quiz (RMS only)
2. Dialogue listening activity
Homework:
1. Workbook pp. 32-33, activities A, B, C, D. (Redwood-- A, B, C only)
2 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Characters quiz
2. Textbook dialogues: Is this your picture? Who is this person?
Homework, TOHS:
1. Google Form
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Character recognition practice
Homework, RMS:
1. Write this sentence in characters. "wǒ bàba shì Zhōngguórén, wǒ māma shì Měiguórén, wǒ hé wǒ jiějie yě shì Měiguórén."
1 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Character recognition practice
2. Character writing practice
Homework:
1. Prepare for character recognition and writing quiz*. Quizlet set here.
*Redwood: Thursday. TOHS: Wednesday.
2. TOHS students: write this sentence in characters. "wǒ bàba shì Zhōngguórén, wǒ māma shì Měiguórén, wǒ hé wǒ jiějie yě shì Měiguórén."
31 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Halloween and globalization
2. Workbook reading and grammar practice
Homework:
1. Complete page 1 of packet, front and back
Week 10
28 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. (TOHS) Reading practice
2. (TOHS) 《小爸爸》
Homework:
1. (Both TOHS and RMS) Character practice worksheet
27 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Character writing practice games
26 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary and speaking review
2. Occupations
3. Chinese people on the One Child Policy
Homework:
1. Bring a picture of your family by tomorrow. (Avatar Maker)
25 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 2 characters analysis
2. Reading and writing practice
Homework:
1. Fill-in-blanks handout
2. Bring a picture of your family by Thursday. (Avatar Maker)
24 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review of colors and numbers
2. Chinese One-Child Policy (now Two-Child Policy)
Homework:
1. Reflection on two-child policy
Week 9
21 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Taiwan summer teaching experience- guest presenter
2. "我家有#个人..." listening practice
Homework:
1. Writing practice sheet
20 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities (TOHS):
1. Class phrases quiz
2. Pinyin practice
3. Chapter 2 characters
Homework (TOHS):
1. Google Form
Class Activities (Redwood):
1. Some Chinese history
2. Chapter 2 characters
Homework (Redwood):
1. Characters practice sheet, due Tuesday
19 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities (Redwood only):
1. Classroom phrases quiz
2. Pinyin practice
3. "How do you say ___?"
Homework (Redwood only)
1. Google Form
18 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 1 characters quiz
2. Classroom phrases review
3. Characters notes
Homework:
1. Google Form (Redwood only)
17 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 有/没有、这个/那个/哪个
2. Chapter 2 Dialogue 1: Listening, Reading (pinyin)
3. Review Kahoot: Unit 1 vocab and classroom phrases
4. Chapter 1 characters practice
Homework:
1. Chapter 1 characters practice quiz
Week 8
14 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. How languages change
13 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Speaking practice
3. Extra credit characters quiz
4. Pinyin practice
Homework:
1. Characters practice sheet due tomorrow.
11 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Classroom phrases (TOHS)
2. Chapter 1 character writing (TOHS)
1. Talking about family (RMS)
Homework:
1. Chapter 1 characters practice sheet (TOHS)
2. Google Form vocab review (RMS)
10 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Double Tenth Day (Taiwan's National Day)
2. Introduction to talking about family
Homework:
1. Google Form vocab review
Week 7
07 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Colors Kahoot
2. Numbers/Colors quiz
3. Question words
4. The Complicated Chinese Family Tree
06 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Rummikub in Chinese
Homework:
1. Prepare for quiz on numbers and colors tomorrow.
Numbers Quizlet / Colors Quizlet
05 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Colors song
2. Colors flashcards
Homework:
1. Colors quiz
04 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Finish presentations
2. National Day
3. Numbers review
4. Writing dates in Chinese
Homework:
1.
9 June 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening, speaking, reading, writing final
8 June 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab & grammar final
7 June 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading task practice
2. Grammar practice
6 June 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Writing task practice
5 June 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review packet
Week 37
2 June 2017 (Friday)
Final review
1 June 2017 (Thursday)
Final review
31 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Final review
30 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Final review
Week 36
26 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Finals review
25 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities, TOHS only:
1. Finals review-- question words
24 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities, RMS only:
1. Finals review-- question words
23 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Finals review-- character writing
Homework:
1. Score 100% on the finals quizlet test
22 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 5 vocab/grammar/writing/speaking assessment (RMS only)
2. Quizlet
Week 35
19 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Chapter 5 vocab/grammar/writing/speaking assessment
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Chapter 5 reflection
18 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Chapter 5 listening/reading assessment
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Movie, Lost on Journey
17 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. More unit review
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Chapter 5 listening/reading assessment
16 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. More unit review
15 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. More unit review
Week 34
12 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Review next week's assessments
2. Review activities
11 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice assessment: vocabulary, listening, reading/writing
10 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review day: listening and speaking practice
9 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review translation and character writing practice
2. 觉得
Homework:
1. Google Form
8 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Cultural discussion (TOHS only)
Week 33
5 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot: 我们的爱好
2. Speaking practice
4 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Translation warm-up
2. 算了、找、别人
3. Dialogue reading
Homework:
1. Google Form
3 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review translation and character writing practice
2. 觉得、没有意思
3. Bingo
2 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review 好久不见
1 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Translation and character writing practice
Week 32
28 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Character reading practice
2. Listening practice
3. 《好久不见》
27 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Character writing warm-up
2. 因为...所以...
Homework:
1. Workbook, p. 61 A, B (RMS)
26 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar structure: Because...therefore...
2. Planning for the weekend
3. Characters recognition quiz
Homework:
1. Workbook, p. 61-62 A, B, C
25 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice character recognition quiz
2. Dialogue 1 reading practice
3. Retelling the story orally
4. Exit slip
Homework:
1. Workbook, p. 61-62 A, B, C (TOHS)
2. Quizlet test 100% (RMS)
24 April 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet
Week 31
21 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up
2. Vocab review
3. Speaking practice
4. 大风吹
20 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab review
2. Speaking practice
3. Characters writing practice
Homework:
1. Complete characters writing practice
19 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: making sentences into questions
2. Hobbies/likes vocabulary introduction
Homework:
1. Google Form
18 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Redwood: Presentational prep day (characters practice for groups who are done)
2. TOHS: Review day
Week 30
7 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentational speaking assessment
6 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Speaking, writing, grammar assessment
5 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening and reading assessment
4 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice
2. Speaking practice
3. Characters practice
4. Redwood: project prep time
3 April 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review and project feedback time
2. Characters practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 29
31 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. US and Chinese cultural perspectives on US and Chinese food
30 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Assign presentational task
2. Presentational task work time
3. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Presentational task text rough draft
29 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. China trip interest
2. Characters review
3. Homework review
4. Practice writing assessment
5. Practice reading assessment
28 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review
2. Practice listening assessment
3. Practice vocab/grammar assessment
Homework:
1. Google Form
27 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review
2. Talking about the weekend
3. Listening, speaking, writing practice
Homework
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 28
24 March 2017 (Friday)
TOHS: Typing and editing a self-intro
RMS: Finish interviewing classmates
23 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review exit slip (TOHS) and word order (RMS) and 见 (both)
2. Favorite movies and class profile (RMS)
3. Kahoot
4. 中文名
5. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
22 March 2017 (Wednesday) (Redwood)
Class Activities:
1. Learning classmates' Chinese names (written characters) and favorite music, movies, food.
Homework:
1. Pick three classmates, and write in complete sentences about their favorite music, movies, and food.
22 March 2017 (Wednesday) (TOHS)
Class Activities:
1. Collect class profiles
2. Character writing practice: country names, music, movies, times of day
3. Viewing a theater website and inviting a friend to see a movie based on it
4. Exit slip
Homework:
1. Visit the website of Shanghai's Grand Cinema theater and choose a film. Write:
-Its name in characters
-Its name in Pinyin
-Its name in English
-Three times at which it is playing today, and in which theater rooms.
21 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Learn classmates' favorite movies and foods, and finish the class profile
20 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. CVSC
2. Warm-up
3. Learning classmates' Chinese names (written characters) and favorite music
Class Activities, Redwood:
1. Quizlet
2. Using dictionary apps and Wikipedia to find your favorite movie in Chinese
Homework:
1. Copy a movie poster for your favorite movie, but use the Chinese title (Redwood).
Week 27
17 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz
2. Using Pleco and Wikipedia to find your favorite movie in Chinese (TOHS)
Homework:
1. Movie poster assignment (TOHS)
16 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up/review
2. 30 second skits
3. Some different movies from 中国、美国
Homework:
1. Characters practice sheet
15 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up/review
2. Speaking practice: specific structures
3. Telephone
Homework:
1. Google Form
14 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: Correcting errors
2. Word order practice
3. Listening practice: Filling out schedules with free time and busy time
4. Speaking practice: Finding time to go out for food, coffee, movies
(Redwood: Chinese mathematics and pi)
Homework:
1. Complete Quizlet study sheet
13 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: Listening practice
2. Quizlet flashcards: character recognition
3. Writing practice using flashcards
4. Match
5. Exit slip
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 26
10 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz 2
2. 因为 and 为什么
3. Reading a more detailed conversation
4. 电话
9 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. 早饭/午饭/晚饭
Homework:
1. Workbook p. 56
2. Study for vocab quiz tomorrow
8 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. 跟 gēn
3. Story listening
4. Story telling
Homework:
1. Google Form (retelling the story in writing)
7 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. 中国、外国
2. 我[time]请你...
3. 喜 character
Homework:
1. Google Form
6 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz 1 (Redwood)
2. Review
3. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 25
3 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. World Language Survey (TOHS)
2. Vocab quiz 1 (TOHS)
3. Review game
2 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. HW and assessment makeups
2. Reading the textbook dialogue
3. Reading the dialogues from the homework
4. Review-oriented speaking tasks
Homework:
1. Workbook p. 47 B (A还是B pattern)
1 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice: understanding invitations
2. Speaking practice: 我[time]有空,我[time]有事
3. Speaking practice: 我[time]请你...,怎么样?
Homework, TOHS:
1. Write a dialogue in characters between two people:
-A invites B to ______.
-B declines, but makes another suggestion.
-A agrees, asks if B has time at _______.
-B says they're busy then, but suggests ____ instead.
-A agrees.
Homework, Redwood:
1. Put each of these sentences into Chinese:
a) I invite you to eat Chinese food, ok?
b) Sorry, I don't like Chinese food, how about American food?
c) Great. Do you at 3:00 have time?
d) I at 3:00 don't have time. How about 4:00?
28 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet and writing practice
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
27 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. New vocab: eat food, listen to music, watch movies
2. Times of day recognition practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 24
24 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Culture minute: Listening practice and cultural discussion
23 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Listening practice
3. Speaking practice: 我请你_____,好吗?
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Review times of day
22 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Free time / busy time
2. How to invite a friend to coffee/lunch
3. Review
Homework:
1. Google Form
21 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 3, dialogue 1
2. Times of day
Homework:
1. Times of day activity
Week 23
16 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Unit reflection
2. Presentational project
15 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Enter WebZone and search for ChineseAssessment
Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Assessment 3
Assessment 4
MDBG
Interpersonal assessment
Project work time
14 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Enter WebZone and search for ChineseAssessment
Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Assessment 3
Assessment 4
MDBG
13 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Assessments review
Homework:
1. Study for Tuesday's unit assessments (see study sheet)
Week 22
10 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz #3
2. Cultural perspectives on zodiac, blood type, and personality
Homework:
1. Project work (due Thursday)
09 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. What foods are considered lucky in China?
2. Interpersonal practice assessment
Homework:
1. Workbook p. 77-78, activities A-C (Use Pleco or a handwriting-based dictionary if you need help with the characters!)
08 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Project work time-- finish Chinese rough draft
07 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: character rearrangement, unit 1
2. Review HW
3. Measure word review
4. Reading a menu and ordering beverages
Homework:
1. Complete rough draft in Chinese of skit by tomorrow.
2. Interpersonal practice assessment on Thursday
3. Vocab quiz 3 on Friday
06 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: "对不起,我的中文不好!“
2. Kahoot
3. Quizlet practice
4. Document reading
Homework:
1. Textbook chapter 5 dialogue 1 reading (Google Form)
2. Interpersonal practice assessment on Thursday
3. Vocab quiz 3 on Friday
Week 21
03 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 3, vocab quiz #2
2. Skit prep time
3. 《对不起我的中文不好》
Homework:
1. Work on skit
02 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review vocabulary
2. Reading practice- dialogue
3. Listening practice
4. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Review for vocab quiz 2 and interpretive pre-assessment
01 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Speaking practice- Zodiac signs
2. Measure words 个/杯/瓶
3. Listening practice- sentences
4. Speaking practice- asking for a beverage
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Vocab quiz 2 and interpretive pre-assessment on Friday
31 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Character reading practice and correction
2. Speaking practice
3. Presentational task prep time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
30 January 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Interpersonal: Meeting someone over chat (Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, Group 5, Group 6, Group 7)
3. Quizlet
4. Presentational project work time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 20
27 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary quiz 1
2. 新年快乐!
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
26 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Assign presentational task (due Thursday, February 16)
2. Listening practice- individual words
3. Reading practice- individual words
4. Structures- 在[place][verb]
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. 明天 wear 红色!
25 January 2017 (Wednesday)\
Class Activities:
1. Study vocabulary
24 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Distribute Unit 3 vocabulary supplement (this is Chapter 5 in your textbook)
3. Quizlet- vocab practice
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 19
20 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities (Redwood):
1. Characters practice
2. Word construction with familiar characters
19 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities (TOHS):
1. Finish Last Train Home
Class Activities (Redwood):
1. Yang Hui's Triangle
17 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet
Homework:
1. 30 words on Quizlet study sheet (TOHS)
2. Write these characters three times each: 兔,蛇,猴,鸡,狗,猪 (Redwood). Click on character links for stroke order.
Week 18
12/13 January 2017 (Thursday/Friday)
Class Activities*:
1. Speaking practice: 我介绍一下...
2. Listening practice/Flyswatter: beverages
3. Speaking practice: Visiting a home
Homework*:
1. TOHS: Google Form
2. Redwood: Google Form
*Due to a high absence rate from the TOHS class on Thursday, this agenda has been rescheduled to Friday. Today's class was a question/answer session about China, Chinese history, and contemporary Chinese culture. We covered the following topics:
-How are foreigners treated in China?
-What can you expect in your first month if you study abroad in China?
-What are some of the biggest Western influences on Chinese culture?
-How is school different in China?
11 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Correct sentences from yesterday
2. Listening practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
10 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review days of the week
2. Speaking practice: Visiting a home, introducing a friend, asking for a beverage
3. Vocabulary for beverages
9 January 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Culture: Going home for New Year
2. Speaking practice: What sign do you belong to?
3. Speaking practice: Visiting a house/answering the door
4. How to introduce a friend to someone
Homework:
1. Read this webpage and write a short, 2-3 sentence paragraph summarizing how Chinese people determine which foods are lucky for the New Year celebration.
Week 17
6 January 2017 (Friday)**REDWOOD
Class Activities, Redwood:
1. Zodiac review
2. Speaking practice: What sign do you belong to?
3. Legend of the Chinese zodiac
4. Visiting a house/answering the door
Homework, Redwood:
1. Google Form
6 January 2017 (Friday)**TOHS
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Speaking practice
2. Verb 喜欢
3. Review games
5 January 2017 (Thursday)**REDWOOD
Class Activities, Redwood:
1. Review homework
2. Kahoot
3. Writing practice
4. Chinese zodiac, 十二生肖
Homework, Redwood:
1. Memorize the chorus from the zodiac song: “shǔ niú hǔ tù, lóng shé mǎ yáng, hóu jī gǒu zhū”
5 January 2017 (Thursday)**TOHS
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Zodiac review
2. Speaking practice: What sign do you belong to?
3. Legend of the Chinese zodiac
4. Visiting a house/answering the door
Homework, TOHS:
1. Google Form
4 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities (TOHS only):
1. Review homework
2. Kahoot
3. Writing practice
4. Chinese zodiac, 十二生肖
Homework (TOHS only):
1. Memorize the chorus from the zodiac song: “shǔ niú hǔ tù, lóng shé mǎ yáng, hóu jī gǒu zhū”
3 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Return final exams
2. Comparing calendars
3. Days of the week, and today/yesterday/tomorrow
4. Some important dates coming up
Homework:
1. Write the characters 星、期、今、昨、明、天
2. Answer these questions in Chinese sentences:
-今天是星期几?
-昨天是星期几?
-明天是星期几?
Week 16
16 December 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Holiday party
15 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Speaking assessments
14 December 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening assessment
2. Semester 1 eval
3. Project work time
Homework:
1. Prepare for assessments
2. Complete project
13 December 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab, reading, writing assessments
Homework:
1. Prepare for assessments
12 December 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Assessment review
Homework:
1. Prepare for assessments
Week 15
9 December 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Review Kahoot
2. Continue work on projects
Homework:
1. Add 20 words to Quizlet study sheet
8 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Spot-it character game
2. Learning 都
3. Guided conversations
Homework:
1. Google Form
7 December 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Pearl Harbor and the Sino-Japanese War
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Writing a letter to a pen-pal
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 20 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
6 December 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Check HW
2. Assign final project (TOHS only)
3. Introductions review
4. Introductions speaking practice
5. Favorite color
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 20 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
5 December 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Current events: Taiwan and the president-elect
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 20 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
Week 14
Extra credit:
Conejo Chinese Cultural Association--Youth Commission
Monthly meeting and Potluck
Westlake Village City Hall, Big Community Room
31200 Oak Crest Drive, Westlake Village
Sunday 12/4, 4:00-6:15pm
2 December 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet review
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 20 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
1 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Turn in packets
2. Review chapter 2 vocabulary
3. Review games
Homework:
1. Google Form
30 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review chapter 1 vocabulary, numbers, colors
Homework:
1. (TOHS) Google Form
2. (RMS) Finish packet
28-29 November 2016 (Monday & Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review packet
2. Characters practice sheet
Week 13
18 November 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentational speaking assessment
17 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Interpersonal speaking assessment
2. Prep for presentational speaking assessment
16 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Unit 2 listening assessment
2. Unit reflection
Homework:
1. Prepare for interpersonal speaking assessment tomorrow
15 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Unit 2 reading/writing assessment
2. Tour of Nanjing University neighborhood
Homework:
1. Prepare for unit 2 listening assessment tomorrow
14 November 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice assessments: Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
2. Review games
Homework:
1. Review! Use Quizlet, the textbook, and/or your vocab list.
Week 12
10 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. View Last Train Home
Homework:
1. Complete Last Train Home reflection
9 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Instagram posts
2. Speaking practice
8 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Write a paragraph about your family
2. Chat practice
Homework:
1. Preview Instagram posts
7 November 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening activity from workbook
2. Reading practice
3. Creating a dialogue, using your family.
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 11
4 November 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. HW check
2. Reading practice
3. Kahoot
4. Speaking practice
3 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Characters quiz (RMS only)
2. Dialogue listening activity
Homework:
1. Workbook pp. 32-33, activities A, B, C, D. (Redwood-- A, B, C only)
2 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities, TOHS:
1. Characters quiz
2. Textbook dialogues: Is this your picture? Who is this person?
Homework, TOHS:
1. Google Form
Class Activities, RMS:
1. Character recognition practice
Homework, RMS:
1. Write this sentence in characters. "wǒ bàba shì Zhōngguórén, wǒ māma shì Měiguórén, wǒ hé wǒ jiějie yě shì Měiguórén."
1 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Character recognition practice
2. Character writing practice
Homework:
1. Prepare for character recognition and writing quiz*. Quizlet set here.
*Redwood: Thursday. TOHS: Wednesday.
2. TOHS students: write this sentence in characters. "wǒ bàba shì Zhōngguórén, wǒ māma shì Měiguórén, wǒ hé wǒ jiějie yě shì Měiguórén."
31 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Halloween and globalization
2. Workbook reading and grammar practice
Homework:
1. Complete page 1 of packet, front and back
Week 10
28 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. (TOHS) Reading practice
2. (TOHS) 《小爸爸》
Homework:
1. (Both TOHS and RMS) Character practice worksheet
27 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Character writing practice games
26 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary and speaking review
2. Occupations
3. Chinese people on the One Child Policy
Homework:
1. Bring a picture of your family by tomorrow. (Avatar Maker)
25 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 2 characters analysis
2. Reading and writing practice
Homework:
1. Fill-in-blanks handout
2. Bring a picture of your family by Thursday. (Avatar Maker)
24 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review of colors and numbers
2. Chinese One-Child Policy (now Two-Child Policy)
Homework:
1. Reflection on two-child policy
Week 9
21 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Taiwan summer teaching experience- guest presenter
2. "我家有#个人..." listening practice
Homework:
1. Writing practice sheet
20 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities (TOHS):
1. Class phrases quiz
2. Pinyin practice
3. Chapter 2 characters
Homework (TOHS):
1. Google Form
Class Activities (Redwood):
1. Some Chinese history
2. Chapter 2 characters
Homework (Redwood):
1. Characters practice sheet, due Tuesday
19 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities (Redwood only):
1. Classroom phrases quiz
2. Pinyin practice
3. "How do you say ___?"
Homework (Redwood only)
1. Google Form
18 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 1 characters quiz
2. Classroom phrases review
3. Characters notes
Homework:
1. Google Form (Redwood only)
17 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 有/没有、这个/那个/哪个
2. Chapter 2 Dialogue 1: Listening, Reading (pinyin)
3. Review Kahoot: Unit 1 vocab and classroom phrases
4. Chapter 1 characters practice
Homework:
1. Chapter 1 characters practice quiz
Week 8
14 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. How languages change
13 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Speaking practice
3. Extra credit characters quiz
4. Pinyin practice
Homework:
1. Characters practice sheet due tomorrow.
11 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Classroom phrases (TOHS)
2. Chapter 1 character writing (TOHS)
1. Talking about family (RMS)
Homework:
1. Chapter 1 characters practice sheet (TOHS)
2. Google Form vocab review (RMS)
10 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Double Tenth Day (Taiwan's National Day)
2. Introduction to talking about family
Homework:
1. Google Form vocab review
Week 7
07 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Colors Kahoot
2. Numbers/Colors quiz
3. Question words
4. The Complicated Chinese Family Tree
06 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Rummikub in Chinese
Homework:
1. Prepare for quiz on numbers and colors tomorrow.
Numbers Quizlet / Colors Quizlet
05 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Colors song
2. Colors flashcards
Homework:
1. Colors quiz
04 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Finish presentations
2. National Day
3. Numbers review
4. Writing dates in Chinese
Homework:
1.