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
6 June 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading/writing task practice
5 June 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Dialogue reading practice
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:
1. Finals review-- speaking tasks
2. Finals review-- time words
23 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Finals review-- character writing
22 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentational task
2. Quizlet
Week 35
*SBAC testing takes place on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
17 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 17 presentational/interpersonal assessment (conversation between tenant and housing advertiser)
Week 34
12 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Translation warm-up
2. More conversation practice
11 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Translation warm-up
2. What questions to ask a potential tenant
3. Conversation practice
Homework:
1. Complete rough draft of housing ad
8-10 May 2017 (Monday-Wednesday)*
*Monday and Wednesday, many students are out for AP testing.
Class Activities:
1. Begin Ch 17 presentational task
Homework:
1. Presentational task rough draft due Friday
Week 33
5 May 2017 (Friday)
Study hall (APUSH test)
4 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Study hall (APUSH test tomorrow)
3 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 17 listening/reading/writing assessment
2 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review for listening/reading/writing assessment
1 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
Study hall (several students gone for AP testing)
Week 32
28 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar and vocab assessment
27 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review for chapter 17 assessment
Homework:
1. Study quizlet
2. Review grammar
26 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Peer feedback on writing tasks
2. AP survey
3. Speaking practice
4. Presentational task assigned
Homework:
1. Writing review sheet
25 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up
2. Speaking practice: phone conversation with potential landlord
3. Writing practice: telling your housemate about a few different options
Homework:
1. Complete writing practice
24 April 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 17 Quizlet
Week 31
21 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. HW check
2. 带家具
3. Mogoroom rental reviews
4. Dialogue 1, chapter 17
Homework:
1. Google Form
20 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. History behind North Korea
19 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review of grammar forms
2. Quizlet
3. Finding housing on Mogoroom.com
Homework:
1. Find a housing advertisement on Mogoroom.com. Screenshot it on your phone, or print it out. Be ready to share with a partner in Chinese about the following questions:
-这套房子在哪一个城市?
-每一月的房租多少钱?
-这套房子几房几厅几卫?
-这套房子带什么家具?
18 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review: Understanding a story about rents and a search for housing
2. Review: What furniture would you buy given an empty house?
3. Review: Analyzing another housing ad
Week 30
7 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Housing prices in China and in the US
6 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading an example housing ad
2. Reading examples of emails to landlords
3. Writing your own email to a landlord
5 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Character writing
Homework:
1. Google Form
4 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading your partner's ad
2. Calling and asking about an apartment
3. Grammar practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
3 April 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Return assessments
2. Reading an ad for a housemate 室友
3. What would an ideal housemate be like? Personality, interests, employment...
Homework:
1. Create your own housemate ad. You can use 陆老师's as an example.
Week 29
31 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 17 vocab quiz 1
2. Talking about the future
Homework:
1. Google Form
30 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Describing ideal housemates
3. Figuring out an ideal living situation
Homework:
1. Study for vocab quiz (Quizlet link)
29 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. China trip interest
2. Furniture and other vocabulary
3. Reading practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
28 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review
2. More vocab
3. Rent, describing your neighborhood
Homework:
1. Google Form
27 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review
2. Chapter 17 vocabulary
Homework:
1. Quizlet test, 100%
Week 28
24 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 16 presentations
23 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 16 speaking/writing/vocab/grammar assessment
22 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 16 listening/reading assessment
21 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Dinner party assignment work time
20 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up
2. Guided speaking practice
3. 50 second skits
4. Planning a dinner party
Homework:
1. Dinner party work tomorrow in class. Due Friday.
Week 27
17 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz
2. Guided speaking practice
Homework:
1. Character practice sheets
16 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Character writing practice
2. Speaking practice
3. Conversation practice with structures
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words (put it on shuffle and repeat words)
15 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice vocab quiz
2. Making your own profile
3. "对象"
4. Adding to your profile
Homework:
1. Create a digital version of your profile (Google Form)
2. Quizlet (no study sheet necessary, just for your own use)
14 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: Correcting errors
2. Reading practice
3. Identifying and learning additional vocabulary
Homework:
1. Google Form
13 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet flashcards: character recognition
2. Writing practice using flashcards
3. Match
4. Exit slip
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 26
10 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Descriptive complements- looking at examples from textbook
2. Grammar examples: pp. 176-178
3. Describing one's day with descriptive complements- listening and speaking
9 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. Potential complements 得/不, with 完/会/来/起来/出来/去/到/懂
Homework:
1. Google Form
8 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. Time phrases
3. Listening to voicemails from a friend
4. Leaving a voicemail for someone inviting them to hang out
5. Conversation practice
Homework:
1. Bring your textbook tomorrow.
2. Record a voicemail inviting a friend to go see a foreign movie, at a particular time. Say who else you will invite, too. Send your file to [email protected]
7 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. Describing personalities (listening practice)
3. Describing people by appearance and by personality (speaking/writing practice)
Homework:
1. Google Form
6 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. China news story
2. Describing personality
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 25
3 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. World Language Survey
2. How to find Chinese translations using Wikipedia
Homework:
1. Google Form
2 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading our descriptions of our friends
2. Continuing chapter dialogue
3. Looking at movie times and getting tickets
Homework:
1. Textbook p. 179 activity E (click link)
1 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading and understanding the chapter dialogue
2. Describing friendships
Homework:
1. Finish your description of your friend
28 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. 2 truths and a lie
2. Vocabulary intro: chapter dialogue 1 (video) (dialogue image) (web zone- search for TOHS_Chinese3)
Homework:
1. Google Form
27 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. New structures: 快~"soon", 一起、对...有兴趣
2. Talking about shared interests and things you can do together
Homework:
1. Google Form (2 truths and a lie)
Week 24
24 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Review: 以前/以后、已经、verb得adj
2. New structures: verb过、#次
Homework:
1. Google Form
23 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Finish presentational assessments
2. Comparing weekly schedules
3. Weekends for Chinese high school students
4. Inviting friends out for coffee, lunch, dinner, or movie
Homework:
1. Google Form
22 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Finish presentational assessments
2. Your weekly schedule as a student
Homework:
1. Use this 时间表 to fill out a weekly schedule for a Chinese high school student for 星期一 to 星期五
21 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Presentational assessments
Week 23
16 February 2017 (Thursday)
Interpersonal assessment
Unit reflection
15 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Assessments
MDBG
14 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Enter WebZone and search for ChineseAssessment
Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Assessment 3
Assessment 4
Assessment 5
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. Journaling
Homework:
1. Project work (due Thursday)
09 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review activities
2. Speaking and listening activities
Homework:
1. Google Form
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, chapter 5
2. Review HW
3. Structures practice: 钟头 with verbs
4. How much do students study?
5. How much do we use our phones and devices?
Homework:
1. Complete rough draft of skit in Chinese by end of tomorrow
2. Vocab quiz 3 on Friday
3. Assessments next week
06 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet
2. Invitation letter 1, invitation letter 2
Homework:
1. Complete invitation letter questions
Week 21
03 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 14, vocab quiz #2
2. Project prep time
Homework:
1. Work on project
02 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review: weather
2. Dialogue reading
3. Vocab review
4. Speaking practice- introducing people, showing up at a house
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Prepare for vocab quiz 2 and interpersonal practice assessment
01 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review: parts of the body
2. Interpretive translation
3. Dialogue reading and listening
4. Review: introducing people, showing up at a house
Homework:
1. Google Form
31 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentational task prep time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
30 January 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet
2. Presentational project work time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 20
27 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz 1
2. Chinese New Year
26 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review rubrics for interpersonal/presentational tasks
2. Reviewing last week's culture assignment: cyclical vs. linear perspectives on history
3. Reviewing vocabulary
Homework:
1. Prepare for vocab quiz tomorrow. Use Quizlet as a resource if you would like.
2. Wear red tomorrow for one point of extra credit.
25 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review vocabulary
24 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Quizlet vocab review
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 19
17 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. "The Ballad of Mulan" 《木兰诗》
2. Disney's Mulan
3. Taking notes on different cultural perspectives portrayed in the Chinese poem and the American film version
Homework:
1. Complete essay by Tuesday, 24 January
Week 18
13 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Dialogue reading
2. Dialogue listening
3. Dialogue questions
4. Grammar: 又...又...
Homework:
1. Read the dialogue for Chapter 14, part 2. Examine the vocabulary list. There are 15 new terms here that you have not learned previously in this chapter.
2. Complete this Google Form.
12 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Turn in narrative expositions
2. Speaking practice: 派对在哪里开的?什么时候开的?我得带什么?
3. Group texting practice- Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4
4. Group texting task
Homework:
1. Google Form
11 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Correct work from yesterday
2. Listening practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
10 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary introduction-- part 2
2. Example sentences
9 January 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Turn in narrative rough drafts
2. Grammar review: 除了...以外...、一边...一边...
3. 长得...
4. 长得像
5. What to bring to a party in China
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 17
6 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Converting dialogue into narrative
Homework:
1. Finish rough draft of narrative exposition with character descriptions, time, and place
5 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Unit 14 part 1- vocabulary/characters analysis
2. Writing practice
Homework:
1. Write each character from today's worksheet 3 times
2. Write these sentences in characters:
a. Lǐ Yǒu yǒu hóng tóufa, dà de hè yǎnjing, hé gāo bízi.
b. Yīnwèi Wáng Péng de gēbo, tuǐ hěn cháng, suǒyǐ tā dǎ lánqiú dǎ de hěn hǎo.
4 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. HW descriptions
3. Drawing people based on descriptions
Homework:
1. Use Instagram to search for pictures of your favorite Chinese food
3 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Return work from before break
2. Parts of the human body
3. Song and 老实说
4. Hair and eye color
5. Identifying people based on descriptions
Homework:
1. Write a short, 2-3 sentence description of yourself using Chinese. Example: “我有短的褐头发、褐眼睛。我的鼻子很大,很高。我的嘴巴不大,也不小。"
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. Project prep time
Homework:
1. Continue project work
2. Add 40 words to Quizlet study sheet
8 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar translation practice
2. Practice performance tasks: calling a friend and asking about the weather there and what you should pack, asking for and giving directions on the subway, and ordering Chinese food at a restaurant
3. Dialogue reading practice
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 30 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
7 December 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Pearl Harbor and the Sino-Japanese War
2. Project prep time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 30 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
6 December 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Check HW
2. Final project rubric
3. Times of day review
4. Dialogue reading
5. Guided conversations
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 30 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
2. Return consent form
5 December 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Current events: Taiwan and the president-elect
2. Assign final project
3. Weather reports-- listening practice
4. Weather reports-- research and speaking practice
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 30 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: 40 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
1 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Turn in packets
2. Making shopping lists
3. Character analysis-- Chapter 9
Homework:
1. Google Form
30 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review chapters 9-11 vocabulary, colors
Homework:
1. Google Form
28-29 November 2016 (Monday & Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review packet
2. Characters practice sheet
Week 13
18 November 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 13 listening and speaking assessment
17 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 13 vocabulary assessment
2. Chapter 13 reading and writing assessment
16 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. HW review
2. Studying for chapter 13 assessments
Homework:
1. Study with Quizlet. Only the characters in this set will be on the assessment tomorrow.
15 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Characters practice
2. Giving a friend directions in Nanjing, using a map
Homework:
1. Google Form
14 November 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Writing practice
3. Sentence addition game
Homework:
1. Write a 6-8 line dialogue between two characters. The theme is "giving a friend directions while driving."
Week 12
10 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. China's perspectives on the US election
Homework (optional):
1. *Chinese restaurant trip on Sunday, 11/13. 2:00pm at Sesame Inn.
9 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 只、不用
2. New vocabulary: Chapter 13, dialogue 2
3. Reading and listening
Homework:
1. Google Form
8 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: times of day
2. HW review
3. 几点去LA?
Homework:
1. Google Form
*Chinese restaurant trip on Sunday, 11/13. 2:00pm at (location TBD).
7 November 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: E/W/S/N
2. China provinces map activity
Homework:
1. Finish class handout
Week 11
4 November 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 除了...以外...
2. Dialogue 13 reading
3. Rewriting the dialogue for TOHS campus
4. 大风吹
Homework:
1. Rewrite your new dialogue all in characters.
3 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 些
2. Scavenger hunt design
Homework:
1. Google Form
2 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 呢/吧/吗
2. Lesson 13 grammar: 没有...那么、离...、呢、一起
Homework:
1. Make an example sentence of each grammar pattern.
1 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 往
2. Speaking practice: Giving directions
31 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Halloween and globalization
2. Grammar: 先...再...
3. Speaking practice prep
Homework:
1. Complete section A of speaking practice
Week 10
27 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 最
2. Giving directions to your favorite restaurant/coffee shop
3. Giving directions on TOHS campus
Homework:
1. Google Form
26 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Complete grammar sheet from Tuesday
2. 离...很近/远
3. Giving directions on TOHS campus
Homework:
1. In characters, write directions from TOHS to your favorite restaurant/coffee shop. You can use English/Pinyin for names of places and streets.
25 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 13 vocabulary quiz 1
2. 往 and 的时候-- grammar for giving directions
Homework:
1. Complete #号高速公路section from class
24 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice: 的时候
2. Directions
3. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Writing practice (see link)
Week 9
21 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Taiwan summer teaching experience- guest presenter
2. Grammar practice: 就/才
20 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 已经
2. Characters notes
Homework:
1. Google Form
19 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review
2. Chapter 13 Quizlet
Homework:
1. Google Form
17 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 13 vocabulary
2. Map activity
Homework:
1. Map activity from class
Week 8
14 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 12 assessment, part 2-- eating Chinese food (Meet in MPR)
13 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 12 assessment, part 1
Homework:
1. Prepare 中国菜 for tomorrow.
11 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice assessments for chapter 12
10 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice
2. Reading practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Scheduling survey
Week 7
07 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 12 grammar
Homework:
1. Google Form
06 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. More characters etymology
2. Characters quiz
05 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Characters etymology
Homework:
1. Characters practice sheet due tomorrow.
2. Characters quiz tomorrow.
3. Tell me your shopping list for 99 Ranch Market tomorrow.
04 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 了
2. Quizlet and characters writing practice
Homework:
1. Characters review packet
Week 6
30 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review
2. Project assignment- making Chinese food for an in-class "restaurant day"
Homework:
1. On Tuesday, be ready to tell me what dish you and your partner will make. Let me know if there are any financial concerns.
29 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 现在
2. Making a menu
3. Ordering food
28 September 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 有时候/常常
2. Chapter 12 grammar: 除了...以外、些、etc.
3. Listening practice-- taking special orders
Homework:
1. Google Form
27 September 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 时候 shíhou
2. Characters review
3. Dialogue listening
4. How to do ______ in Chinese sentence list
5. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
26 September 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 以前/以后, 一下/一点
2. Sichuan peppercorns 花椒, dragonfruit 火龙果, lychee 荔枝
3. Vocabulary review-- taking orders
4. Miscellaneous restaurant tips
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 5
23 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 一下/一点
2. Quizlet characters recognition
22 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Vegetarianism in China and in the US
21 September 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Ordering food at 小四川
Homework:
1. Google Form
20 September 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary introduction-- meats, grains/vegetables, flavors, and styles of cooking
Homework:
1. Google Form
19 September 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Last presentation
2. Introduction to Chapter 12: Chinese food
3. Eight Great Regions of Chinese Food
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 4
16 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentations
15 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Celebrating Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节
14 September 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Previewing Chapter 12
2. Grammar review
13 September 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet review
12 September 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice
2. Feedback on rough drafts
Homework:
1. Grammar packet due Wednesday
2. Presentations due Friday
Week 3
9 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review
2. Grammar workbook practice
Homework:
1. Presentations on Tuesday
8 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Surveys
2. Character recognition practice
3. Dialogue reading, Chapters 10/11
4. Speaking tasks: Chapter 10, Chapter 11
7 September 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Example presentations
2. Characters recognition
3. Speaking tasks: Chapters 9, 10, 11
Homework:
1. See 6 September (these items are due tomorrow)
6 September 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Writing a story using conjunction words
3. Presentation preparation time
Homework:
1. Story writing due Thursday
2. Presentation rough draft due Thursday
Week 2
2 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice
1 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading pinyin dialogues
2. Pinyin quiz
3. Reading characters dialogues
4. Speaking tasks
Homework:
1. Characters packet due tomorrow
31 August 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Pinyin and tones review
2. Pronunciation practice
Homework:
1. Pinyin/tones quiz tomorrow! Use these study tools:
Lightning Quiz
Pinyin Chart
30 August 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Characters practice
Homework:
1. Characters practice sheet due Friday
2. Research your assigned city, and bring information to class tomorrow. It can be recorded in English.
29 August 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Culture review
2. Listening practice and vocabulary review
3. Introduction to cities advertisement project
Homework:
1. Research your city and collect all information you need, in English. (Due Wednesday)
Week 1
26
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
6 June 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading/writing task practice
5 June 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Dialogue reading practice
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:
1. Finals review-- speaking tasks
2. Finals review-- time words
23 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Finals review-- character writing
22 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentational task
2. Quizlet
Week 35
*SBAC testing takes place on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
17 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 17 presentational/interpersonal assessment (conversation between tenant and housing advertiser)
Week 34
12 May 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Translation warm-up
2. More conversation practice
11 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Translation warm-up
2. What questions to ask a potential tenant
3. Conversation practice
Homework:
1. Complete rough draft of housing ad
8-10 May 2017 (Monday-Wednesday)*
*Monday and Wednesday, many students are out for AP testing.
Class Activities:
1. Begin Ch 17 presentational task
Homework:
1. Presentational task rough draft due Friday
Week 33
5 May 2017 (Friday)
Study hall (APUSH test)
4 May 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Study hall (APUSH test tomorrow)
3 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 17 listening/reading/writing assessment
2 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review for listening/reading/writing assessment
1 May 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
Study hall (several students gone for AP testing)
Week 32
28 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar and vocab assessment
27 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review for chapter 17 assessment
Homework:
1. Study quizlet
2. Review grammar
26 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Peer feedback on writing tasks
2. AP survey
3. Speaking practice
4. Presentational task assigned
Homework:
1. Writing review sheet
25 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up
2. Speaking practice: phone conversation with potential landlord
3. Writing practice: telling your housemate about a few different options
Homework:
1. Complete writing practice
24 April 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 17 Quizlet
Week 31
21 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. HW check
2. 带家具
3. Mogoroom rental reviews
4. Dialogue 1, chapter 17
Homework:
1. Google Form
20 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. History behind North Korea
19 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review of grammar forms
2. Quizlet
3. Finding housing on Mogoroom.com
Homework:
1. Find a housing advertisement on Mogoroom.com. Screenshot it on your phone, or print it out. Be ready to share with a partner in Chinese about the following questions:
-这套房子在哪一个城市?
-每一月的房租多少钱?
-这套房子几房几厅几卫?
-这套房子带什么家具?
18 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review: Understanding a story about rents and a search for housing
2. Review: What furniture would you buy given an empty house?
3. Review: Analyzing another housing ad
Week 30
7 April 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Housing prices in China and in the US
6 April 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading an example housing ad
2. Reading examples of emails to landlords
3. Writing your own email to a landlord
5 April 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Character writing
Homework:
1. Google Form
4 April 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading your partner's ad
2. Calling and asking about an apartment
3. Grammar practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
3 April 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Return assessments
2. Reading an ad for a housemate 室友
3. What would an ideal housemate be like? Personality, interests, employment...
Homework:
1. Create your own housemate ad. You can use 陆老师's as an example.
Week 29
31 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 17 vocab quiz 1
2. Talking about the future
Homework:
1. Google Form
30 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Describing ideal housemates
3. Figuring out an ideal living situation
Homework:
1. Study for vocab quiz (Quizlet link)
29 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. China trip interest
2. Furniture and other vocabulary
3. Reading practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
28 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review
2. More vocab
3. Rent, describing your neighborhood
Homework:
1. Google Form
27 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Review
2. Chapter 17 vocabulary
Homework:
1. Quizlet test, 100%
Week 28
24 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 16 presentations
23 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 16 speaking/writing/vocab/grammar assessment
22 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 16 listening/reading assessment
21 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Dinner party assignment work time
20 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up
2. Guided speaking practice
3. 50 second skits
4. Planning a dinner party
Homework:
1. Dinner party work tomorrow in class. Due Friday.
Week 27
17 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz
2. Guided speaking practice
Homework:
1. Character practice sheets
16 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Character writing practice
2. Speaking practice
3. Conversation practice with structures
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words (put it on shuffle and repeat words)
15 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice vocab quiz
2. Making your own profile
3. "对象"
4. Adding to your profile
Homework:
1. Create a digital version of your profile (Google Form)
2. Quizlet (no study sheet necessary, just for your own use)
14 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Warm-up: Correcting errors
2. Reading practice
3. Identifying and learning additional vocabulary
Homework:
1. Google Form
13 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet flashcards: character recognition
2. Writing practice using flashcards
3. Match
4. Exit slip
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 26
10 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Descriptive complements- looking at examples from textbook
2. Grammar examples: pp. 176-178
3. Describing one's day with descriptive complements- listening and speaking
9 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. Potential complements 得/不, with 完/会/来/起来/出来/去/到/懂
Homework:
1. Google Form
8 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. Time phrases
3. Listening to voicemails from a friend
4. Leaving a voicemail for someone inviting them to hang out
5. Conversation practice
Homework:
1. Bring your textbook tomorrow.
2. Record a voicemail inviting a friend to go see a foreign movie, at a particular time. Say who else you will invite, too. Send your file to [email protected]
7 March 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review warm-up
2. Describing personalities (listening practice)
3. Describing people by appearance and by personality (speaking/writing practice)
Homework:
1. Google Form
6 March 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. China news story
2. Describing personality
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 25
3 March 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. World Language Survey
2. How to find Chinese translations using Wikipedia
Homework:
1. Google Form
2 March 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading our descriptions of our friends
2. Continuing chapter dialogue
3. Looking at movie times and getting tickets
Homework:
1. Textbook p. 179 activity E (click link)
1 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading and understanding the chapter dialogue
2. Describing friendships
Homework:
1. Finish your description of your friend
28 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. 2 truths and a lie
2. Vocabulary intro: chapter dialogue 1 (video) (dialogue image) (web zone- search for TOHS_Chinese3)
Homework:
1. Google Form
27 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. New structures: 快~"soon", 一起、对...有兴趣
2. Talking about shared interests and things you can do together
Homework:
1. Google Form (2 truths and a lie)
Week 24
24 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Review: 以前/以后、已经、verb得adj
2. New structures: verb过、#次
Homework:
1. Google Form
23 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Finish presentational assessments
2. Comparing weekly schedules
3. Weekends for Chinese high school students
4. Inviting friends out for coffee, lunch, dinner, or movie
Homework:
1. Google Form
22 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Finish presentational assessments
2. Your weekly schedule as a student
Homework:
1. Use this 时间表 to fill out a weekly schedule for a Chinese high school student for 星期一 to 星期五
21 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Presentational assessments
Week 23
16 February 2017 (Thursday)
Interpersonal assessment
Unit reflection
15 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Assessments
MDBG
14 February 2017 (Tuesday)
Enter WebZone and search for ChineseAssessment
Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Assessment 3
Assessment 4
Assessment 5
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. Journaling
Homework:
1. Project work (due Thursday)
09 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review activities
2. Speaking and listening activities
Homework:
1. Google Form
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, chapter 5
2. Review HW
3. Structures practice: 钟头 with verbs
4. How much do students study?
5. How much do we use our phones and devices?
Homework:
1. Complete rough draft of skit in Chinese by end of tomorrow
2. Vocab quiz 3 on Friday
3. Assessments next week
06 February 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet
2. Invitation letter 1, invitation letter 2
Homework:
1. Complete invitation letter questions
Week 21
03 February 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 14, vocab quiz #2
2. Project prep time
Homework:
1. Work on project
02 February 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review: weather
2. Dialogue reading
3. Vocab review
4. Speaking practice- introducing people, showing up at a house
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Prepare for vocab quiz 2 and interpersonal practice assessment
01 February 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review: parts of the body
2. Interpretive translation
3. Dialogue reading and listening
4. Review: introducing people, showing up at a house
Homework:
1. Google Form
31 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentational task prep time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
30 January 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet
2. Presentational project work time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 20
27 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocab quiz 1
2. Chinese New Year
26 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Review rubrics for interpersonal/presentational tasks
2. Reviewing last week's culture assignment: cyclical vs. linear perspectives on history
3. Reviewing vocabulary
Homework:
1. Prepare for vocab quiz tomorrow. Use Quizlet as a resource if you would like.
2. Wear red tomorrow for one point of extra credit.
25 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review vocabulary
24 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Quizlet vocab review
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet, 30 words
Week 19
17 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. "The Ballad of Mulan" 《木兰诗》
2. Disney's Mulan
3. Taking notes on different cultural perspectives portrayed in the Chinese poem and the American film version
Homework:
1. Complete essay by Tuesday, 24 January
Week 18
13 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Dialogue reading
2. Dialogue listening
3. Dialogue questions
4. Grammar: 又...又...
Homework:
1. Read the dialogue for Chapter 14, part 2. Examine the vocabulary list. There are 15 new terms here that you have not learned previously in this chapter.
2. Complete this Google Form.
12 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Turn in narrative expositions
2. Speaking practice: 派对在哪里开的?什么时候开的?我得带什么?
3. Group texting practice- Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4
4. Group texting task
Homework:
1. Google Form
11 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Correct work from yesterday
2. Listening practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
10 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary introduction-- part 2
2. Example sentences
9 January 2017 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Turn in narrative rough drafts
2. Grammar review: 除了...以外...、一边...一边...
3. 长得...
4. 长得像
5. What to bring to a party in China
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 17
6 January 2017 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Converting dialogue into narrative
Homework:
1. Finish rough draft of narrative exposition with character descriptions, time, and place
5 January 2017 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Unit 14 part 1- vocabulary/characters analysis
2. Writing practice
Homework:
1. Write each character from today's worksheet 3 times
2. Write these sentences in characters:
a. Lǐ Yǒu yǒu hóng tóufa, dà de hè yǎnjing, hé gāo bízi.
b. Yīnwèi Wáng Péng de gēbo, tuǐ hěn cháng, suǒyǐ tā dǎ lánqiú dǎ de hěn hǎo.
4 January 2017 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. HW descriptions
3. Drawing people based on descriptions
Homework:
1. Use Instagram to search for pictures of your favorite Chinese food
3 January 2017 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Return work from before break
2. Parts of the human body
3. Song and 老实说
4. Hair and eye color
5. Identifying people based on descriptions
Homework:
1. Write a short, 2-3 sentence description of yourself using Chinese. Example: “我有短的褐头发、褐眼睛。我的鼻子很大,很高。我的嘴巴不大,也不小。"
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. Project prep time
Homework:
1. Continue project work
2. Add 40 words to Quizlet study sheet
8 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar translation practice
2. Practice performance tasks: calling a friend and asking about the weather there and what you should pack, asking for and giving directions on the subway, and ordering Chinese food at a restaurant
3. Dialogue reading practice
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 30 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
7 December 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Pearl Harbor and the Sino-Japanese War
2. Project prep time
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 30 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
6 December 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Check HW
2. Final project rubric
3. Times of day review
4. Dialogue reading
5. Guided conversations
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 30 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
2. Return consent form
5 December 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Current events: Taiwan and the president-elect
2. Assign final project
3. Weather reports-- listening practice
4. Weather reports-- research and speaking practice
Homework:
1. Quizlet study sheet: 30 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: 40 words. Make sure you change the Flashcard settings to "Shuffle" and "Pinyin first".
1 December 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Turn in packets
2. Making shopping lists
3. Character analysis-- Chapter 9
Homework:
1. Google Form
30 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review chapters 9-11 vocabulary, colors
Homework:
1. Google Form
28-29 November 2016 (Monday & Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Review packet
2. Characters practice sheet
Week 13
18 November 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 13 listening and speaking assessment
17 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 13 vocabulary assessment
2. Chapter 13 reading and writing assessment
16 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. HW review
2. Studying for chapter 13 assessments
Homework:
1. Study with Quizlet. Only the characters in this set will be on the assessment tomorrow.
15 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Characters practice
2. Giving a friend directions in Nanjing, using a map
Homework:
1. Google Form
14 November 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Writing practice
3. Sentence addition game
Homework:
1. Write a 6-8 line dialogue between two characters. The theme is "giving a friend directions while driving."
Week 12
10 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. China's perspectives on the US election
Homework (optional):
1. *Chinese restaurant trip on Sunday, 11/13. 2:00pm at Sesame Inn.
9 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 只、不用
2. New vocabulary: Chapter 13, dialogue 2
3. Reading and listening
Homework:
1. Google Form
8 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: times of day
2. HW review
3. 几点去LA?
Homework:
1. Google Form
*Chinese restaurant trip on Sunday, 11/13. 2:00pm at (location TBD).
7 November 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: E/W/S/N
2. China provinces map activity
Homework:
1. Finish class handout
Week 11
4 November 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 除了...以外...
2. Dialogue 13 reading
3. Rewriting the dialogue for TOHS campus
4. 大风吹
Homework:
1. Rewrite your new dialogue all in characters.
3 November 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 些
2. Scavenger hunt design
Homework:
1. Google Form
2 November 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 呢/吧/吗
2. Lesson 13 grammar: 没有...那么、离...、呢、一起
Homework:
1. Make an example sentence of each grammar pattern.
1 November 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 往
2. Speaking practice: Giving directions
31 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Halloween and globalization
2. Grammar: 先...再...
3. Speaking practice prep
Homework:
1. Complete section A of speaking practice
Week 10
27 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 最
2. Giving directions to your favorite restaurant/coffee shop
3. Giving directions on TOHS campus
Homework:
1. Google Form
26 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Complete grammar sheet from Tuesday
2. 离...很近/远
3. Giving directions on TOHS campus
Homework:
1. In characters, write directions from TOHS to your favorite restaurant/coffee shop. You can use English/Pinyin for names of places and streets.
25 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 13 vocabulary quiz 1
2. 往 and 的时候-- grammar for giving directions
Homework:
1. Complete #号高速公路section from class
24 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice: 的时候
2. Directions
3. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Writing practice (see link)
Week 9
21 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Taiwan summer teaching experience- guest presenter
2. Grammar practice: 就/才
20 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar: 已经
2. Characters notes
Homework:
1. Google Form
19 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review
2. Chapter 13 Quizlet
Homework:
1. Google Form
17 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 13 vocabulary
2. Map activity
Homework:
1. Map activity from class
Week 8
14 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 12 assessment, part 2-- eating Chinese food (Meet in MPR)
13 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 12 assessment, part 1
Homework:
1. Prepare 中国菜 for tomorrow.
11 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Practice assessments for chapter 12
10 October 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice
2. Reading practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
2. Scheduling survey
Week 7
07 October 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Chapter 12 grammar
Homework:
1. Google Form
06 October 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. More characters etymology
2. Characters quiz
05 October 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Characters etymology
Homework:
1. Characters practice sheet due tomorrow.
2. Characters quiz tomorrow.
3. Tell me your shopping list for 99 Ranch Market tomorrow.
04 October 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 了
2. Quizlet and characters writing practice
Homework:
1. Characters review packet
Week 6
30 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review
2. Project assignment- making Chinese food for an in-class "restaurant day"
Homework:
1. On Tuesday, be ready to tell me what dish you and your partner will make. Let me know if there are any financial concerns.
29 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 现在
2. Making a menu
3. Ordering food
28 September 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 有时候/常常
2. Chapter 12 grammar: 除了...以外、些、etc.
3. Listening practice-- taking special orders
Homework:
1. Google Form
27 September 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 时候 shíhou
2. Characters review
3. Dialogue listening
4. How to do ______ in Chinese sentence list
5. Speaking practice
Homework:
1. Google Form
26 September 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 以前/以后, 一下/一点
2. Sichuan peppercorns 花椒, dragonfruit 火龙果, lychee 荔枝
3. Vocabulary review-- taking orders
4. Miscellaneous restaurant tips
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 5
23 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review: 一下/一点
2. Quizlet characters recognition
22 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Kahoot
2. Vegetarianism in China and in the US
21 September 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Ordering food at 小四川
Homework:
1. Google Form
20 September 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Vocabulary introduction-- meats, grains/vegetables, flavors, and styles of cooking
Homework:
1. Google Form
19 September 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Last presentation
2. Introduction to Chapter 12: Chinese food
3. Eight Great Regions of Chinese Food
Homework:
1. Google Form
Week 4
16 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Presentations
15 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Celebrating Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节
14 September 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Previewing Chapter 12
2. Grammar review
13 September 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Quizlet review
12 September 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice
2. Feedback on rough drafts
Homework:
1. Grammar packet due Wednesday
2. Presentations due Friday
Week 3
9 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar review
2. Grammar workbook practice
Homework:
1. Presentations on Tuesday
8 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Surveys
2. Character recognition practice
3. Dialogue reading, Chapters 10/11
4. Speaking tasks: Chapter 10, Chapter 11
7 September 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Example presentations
2. Characters recognition
3. Speaking tasks: Chapters 9, 10, 11
Homework:
1. See 6 September (these items are due tomorrow)
6 September 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Writing a story using conjunction words
3. Presentation preparation time
Homework:
1. Story writing due Thursday
2. Presentation rough draft due Thursday
Week 2
2 September 2016 (Friday)
Class Activities:
1. Grammar practice
1 September 2016 (Thursday)
Class Activities:
1. Reading pinyin dialogues
2. Pinyin quiz
3. Reading characters dialogues
4. Speaking tasks
Homework:
1. Characters packet due tomorrow
31 August 2016 (Wednesday)
Class Activities:
1. Pinyin and tones review
2. Pronunciation practice
Homework:
1. Pinyin/tones quiz tomorrow! Use these study tools:
Lightning Quiz
Pinyin Chart
30 August 2016 (Tuesday)
Class Activities:
1. Listening practice
2. Characters practice
Homework:
1. Characters practice sheet due Friday
2. Research your assigned city, and bring information to class tomorrow. It can be recorded in English.
29 August 2016 (Monday)
Class Activities:
1. Culture review
2. Listening practice and vocabulary review
3. Introduction to cities advertisement project
Homework:
1. Research your city and collect all information you need, in English. (Due Wednesday)
Week 1
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