Unit title: 嗨！Hi! Introducing yourself in Chinese Area of interaction focus Which area of interaction will be our focus? Why have we chosen this? Significant concepts What are the big ideas? What do we want our students to retain for years into the future? Human Ingenuity The creation and use of language as a means of communicating. Exploring grammatical patterns as a way of building and creating language. Language is a foundation for everyday life, human interaction and general learning. Communication with others always depends on some form of language. MYP unit question How can we benefit from learning a foreign language? How is learning a symbol/character-based language different to learning an alphabet based language?

Our Mandarin Goals Today Review numbers and asking how old somebody is. Understand the differences and similarities between the words he & she. Using the words he & she in sentences that we have learnt before. Developing our listening skills.

He & She Same Pronunciation but…….. Different Character

Same Pronunciation… tā

Different Character.. She 她

Different Character.. He 他

Can you translate the following sentences into Chinese Characters? 一 He is how old? 二 She is how old?

我三十一岁

我四十岁

我二十一岁

我六十八岁

他多大？

她多大？

他多大？

他多大？