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1 Getting older Children to Learn Chinese – Fun, Fun, Fun!
“I hear and forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Confucius

2 Do you remember? We learn …
10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we discuss with others 80% of what we personally experience 90% of what we teach to someone else

3 What works with older students?
VISUAL LEARNING TECHNIQUES: AUDITORY LEARNING TECHNIQUES: KINESTHETIC LEARNING TECHNIQUES:

4 Games and Activities for Starters, Practice and Plenaries
Listing 3 things learnt from last lesson Summarising a topic in 5 bullet points Cloze passage (with key words from last lesson) Drawing a timeline Finding the link among a selection of pictures Label a diagram Taboo Analysing / discussing a short video clip Artistic response to some music or a poem Who wants to be a millionaire? Murder game (whodunit?) 2-minute challenge

5 Quizzes Blockbusters Ordering elements hierarchically Matching words to topics Categories Big Brother Tongue twisters Acting out proverbs / idiomatic phrases (sketch show) Research and debates Making a school newspaper in the TL Mind mapping Modelling Becoming a weather forecaster International contact: video links, exchanges, cultural & study visits, pen pals Creative writing competition Writing and performing a rap / rock ballad

6 GROUP WORK Design a series of VAK activities for a 1 hour lesson to introduce ‘jobs’ to a mixed ability group of 15-year olds.


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