1. 中文二 H Block Course Objectives
Revisit and master Chinese Pinyin and Character Writing systems
Revisit and master basic classroom expressions and language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) learned from previous studies in the contexts of Greetings, Families, Dates & Time, Hobbies and Visiting Friends.
Develop 听说读写 language skills and cultural understanding in the context of:
Making Appointment
Studying Chinese
School Life
Shopping
Transportation

2. IC Textbook Structure and Cast
这星期的Objectives (二○一二年九月九日 ~ 九月十三日)
IC Textbook Structure and Cast
Review Pinyin, Radicals, Strokes, Stroke Order
WWW
Review L1 Vocabulary & Grammar
L1 复习Quiz - 星期五

3. Chinese name: 冯波 féng bō
开学第二天 (二○一三年九月九日星期一)
Meet Your Teacher 
English name: Bo Feng
Chinese name: 冯波 féng bō
我姓 … 叫… // what goes first?
我的名字是…
你们叫我…冯老师 féng lǎo shī
你呢?
你叫什么名字?
你姓什么叫什么?
您贵guì姓大名?

4. 你也是老师吗?
你不是老师吗?
你是学生吗?
你们都是学生吗?
你不是学生吗?
她也不是学生吗?
你们都不是老师吗?
你们都不是学生吗?
我们不都是学生吗?

5. 开学第二天 (二○一三年九月九日星期一)
Course and Class Expectations
Distribute IC Textbooks, Collect Signed Book cards
Class & Study Routines

6. 开学第二天 (二○一三年九月九日星期一) Cross Class Projects Tai Ji 太极
开学第二天 (二○一三年九月九日星期一)
Cross Class Projects
Tai Ji 太极
Celebrate 4 major Chinese holidays
Chinese Newsletter
Calligraphy
Movies
China Exchange (optional)

7. Each Unit’s Learning Objectives
Unit Test
Vocabulary Quiz (2)
Character Worksheets
Related Cultural Highlights
Vocabulary and
Application
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Textbook exercises, E to M, M to E Worksheets
Presentation/project
Integrated Comprehension
Sentence Quiz
(1 or 2)
Situational Language Practice
Grammar and Application
IC Workbook

8. Class Routines Daily Classroom greetings – led by class captain
Review or warm up activity
Learn new material
Modeled practice  Guided practice  Self practice
Practice activities include situation dialogues, games, tongue twisters, brain teaser, newspaper…
Exit progress check
Weekly
Weekly Learning Objectives
Language Lab
Quiz

10. Practice Speaking (说） of L1~L3 6 Dialogues
开学第三天 (二○一三年九月十日星期二)
Practice Speaking (说） of L1~L3 6 Dialogues
Follow me first
Practice with a partner

11. Study L1, L2, L3 Vocabulary for CC quiz
今天的功课 (二○一三年九月十日星期二)
Study L1, L2, L3 Vocabulary for CC quiz
星期五

12. Review (二○一二年九月十二日星期四)
Read out radicals p.13~14
Read newspaper, circle characters that contain known radicals
Spoken Chinese 听说 + Written Chinese 读写
Captain Duties
Lead class greetings & leave-takings – classroom manner
Maintain INFO board: month, date , weather, announce homework
Keep timer – 5 minutes before bell
New captain every week
Learning Buddy Duties
Help each other to reach the STAR
Pick up handouts and share info on missing class work and homework
Study together (in person, , phone…)

13. Essential questions Why Chinese?
What is the size of Chinese-speaking population?
How many Chinese spoken languages are there?
How many Chinese written languages are there?
What is Modern Standard Chinese pronunciation system based on? How does it compare to English?
What is the fundamental difference between Chinese characters and English words?
Why is the stroke order in Chinese writing is important?
What expressions would help you in our classroom?
What expressions or phrases would help you to survive in a Chinese-speaking environment?

14. Modern Standard Chinese Pinyin
A Chinese character has only one syllable which consists of two parts: an initial (consonant) and a final (vowel). The initial always appear initially in a syllable.
21 initials, fall into six groups. (IC Textbook p.2)
21 Initials
Simple Finals b p m f d t n l g k h j q x z c s zh ch sh r a o e i u ü

15. Finals (vowels)
Two types of finals in the Chinese phonetic alphabet - single finals and compound finals. A final usually follows an initial in a syllable. (IC p.1)
Simple Finals a o e i u ü

16. Compound finals
A compound final consists of single final(s) and/or intial(s) and creates a new sound. (IC p.6)
30 compound finals: 14 compounded single finals (in red) and 16 nasal finals (in green)
Practice 14 compound finals
Practice 16 nasal finals
w, y, and v?
(i)
(u)
(ü)
(a)
ia (ya)
ua (wa)
(o)
uo (wo)
(e)
ie (ye)
üe (yue) ai
uai (wai) ei
uei (wei) ao
iao (yao) ou
iou (you) an
ian (yan)
uan (wan)
üan (yuan) en
in (yin)
uen (wen)
ün (yun)
ang
iang (yang)
uang (wang)
eng
ing (ying)
ueng (weng)
ong
iong (yong) er

17. Drill Initials with a partner - IC p.4~5 Practice
turn your back, do the same.
Drill Compound Finals – IC p.6~7 Compound Finals
Spelling Rules – IC p.6

18. five tones describe how the pitch changes
represented pinyin by marks above the finals, read from left to right.
The absence of a tone means a neutral tone. (IC p.8)
Read out p.8~11
Examples
1 = flat, unchanging tone
mā 妈
má fán 麻烦 = trouble
2 = rising tone
3 = Falling then rising tone
mǎ 马= horse
4 = falling tone
mà 骂= scold
5 = Neutral = a gentle tone with no emphasis on rising or falling
māma 妈妈

19. (骑qí = ride, 马mǎ = horse, 慢màn = slow, 骂 = scold)
Tongue twister #1
妈妈 骑马, 马慢, 妈妈 骂马
(骑qí = ride, 马mǎ = horse, 慢màn = slow, 骂 = scold)

20. Tongue twister #2 爸爸 的 爸爸 怕 爸爸 的 妈妈, (怕 pà = fear)
可是, 妈妈 的爸爸 不怕 妈妈 的 妈妈。
(可是 kě shì = fear 不 bú = not )

21. Tongue twister #3 十四 是 十四, 不说 四 是 十, 不說 十 是 四 , 不說 十四 是 四十!
四 是 四, 十 是 十,
十四 是 十四,
不说 四 是 十,
不說 十 是 四 ,
不說 十四 是 四十!

22. 今天的功课(課) gōng kè (九月十二日星期四)
Practice Combination Tables & Spelling Rules Group 7 on
Write neatly L1D1 & D2 Char WS  start in class
Circle radical
Write:
1 pinyin, (sound out)
1 meaning,
word function (see V-table)
3~6 chars (follow stroke order and sound out)
1 or more CC (Refer V-Table or dialogues for first CC!)
Summarize Language Notes p.20,28
L1 复习Quiz – 下星期五

23. Monosyllabic Words - IC P.8 ~9
Warm Up (九月十三日星期五)
Dictation - I read, you write down the Pinyin in CN
Monosyllabic Words - IC P.8 ~9
With a partner, one speak, one dictate
around the tables
b d g j z
p t k q c
m n h x s
f l zh ch
n sh
l r
Bi-syllabic words - IC p.9~11
i, ü
i,u,o,a
u,e,a
i, u,e,a
i,u,e,a
Depends on students’ need, review Page 6 for pinyin and five tones and show useful links to practice at home ü

24. Common Classroom Expressions
Mark pinyin next to the expressions after I say it
Role play
Check my wiki –
“Get to Know You” interview
Interview second partner if time permits
Update the form, sign names
Group introductions
WWW - Character Connection (CC) exercise
L1 D1 & D2
你的照片， 他们的照片， 好看的照片， 大的照片。。。
based on your CC worksheets
Turn in

25. 今天的功课(課) gōng kè (九月十三日星期五)
L1D1 E to M Worksheets
Model examples in IC textbook
Study and read out loud
L1 复习Quiz - 星期五

26. Sandhi of the third tone
Review (九月十六日星期一)
Team practice L1D1&D2 Dialogues
Study L1 D1 & D2 CC Tables (V-table)
Go over ‘y’ and ‘w’
When finals 'i', 'u' and 'ü' make syllables themselves without preceding, they are written as follows:
i = y u = w ü = yu
Practice: Spelling Rules Group 7.
Sandhi of the third tone
In real conversations, it sounds only half way
IC p.10 D.2 and D.2 practice

27. Chinese Writing system – IC p. 11~12
Represented by characters instead of alphabets
Traditional vs. Simplified (Ex: 馬 马, 門  门, 請请)
Formation of characters
Traditional system - 6 formation categories
Pictographic 人, 水,火huǒ,山, 日, 月, 木,心 xīn,口 kǒu,本běn, 末mò
Self-explanatory 上, 下, 卡kǎ, 一, 二, 三,
Associative Compounds (two or more pictographic words) 明,休,武 wǔ, 信xìn
Pictophonetic (pictographic + sound) - majority
江, 河, 姑, 媽, 乒乓pīng pāng
Mutually Explanatory (share same radical) 老, 考
Phonetic Loan 來, 我

28. Basic Strokes and their names - IC p.15 C.
More examples on formation of Traditional characters:
Majority Self-explanatory, Associative compounds Pictophonetic
easier to memorize when you understand how they are formed
Simplified system - 3 formation categories
Simple characters (18%) – single unanalyzed component
Ex: most of Pictographic, Self-explanatory characters
Compound characters (82%) – two analyzable components: a semantic radical and phonetic
Basic Strokes and their names - IC p.15 C.
Read loud each stroke while writing in the air

29. Stroke order is important! - IC p.15 D.
Stroke number helps to find the character in a radical-based dictionary
Write numerals in the air while reading out stroke names - IC p.17
Try pronouns and your names at home
Basic Chinese Radicals - IC p.12~14
Read, write, and memorize 10 a day if possible. Build a strong foundation!
It helps when look up dictionary and taking a test
Etmology
Strokes -> radicals -> components -> characters -> CC -> phrases
Traditional writing system has 214 radicals and 1100 phonetics while simplified Chinese has 189 radicals
Read Newspaper - by teams
Circle words that you know, mark Radicals in the known words

30. Dictate numbers –> listen then write in Chinese
100 (一百 yī bǎi ), 200, 300…
1000 (一千 yī qiān), 2000, 3000…
10,000 (一萬 yī wàn), …
Do class head count – everyone shouts out his/her number
Bonus
九月十八号 hào = 九月十八日
我的妈妈 = 我妈妈
你是老师吗? = 你是不是老師?

31. (們) Flash Card Format 你們(们)好嗎? Side 1 Side 2
Radical, stroke order & number
(們)
art or clue
pinyin
definition
Make a sentence
你們(们)好嗎?

32. 今天的功课(課) gōng kè (九月十六日星期一) Language Practice 说 – call learning buddy
P.25 A.B.
P.32 C.D.E.F.
P.48 A.B.C.D.
明天Demo in class
L1D2 E to M Worksheet
Model examples in IC textbook
Study and read out loud
L1 复习Quiz - 星期五

33. Warm Up (九月十七日星期二) Team Practice 文法（＝语法） Team L1D1&D2 Dialogues
Dictation listen to CD L1D1 & D2 dialogues
Team Practice 文法（＝语法）
With a partner – 听说读写
姓，呢，叫 P. 22～25
Language Practice by LBs
是。。吗？ 不，也 p.29~34
的，个，张，有， QPr（谁，哪里，什么，几。。）p.45~48
有，两，都 p.53~54)

34. Pick a Captain! *冬瓜 dōng guā = melon *傻瓜 shǎ guā = fool
冬瓜=winter melon 西瓜= watermelon
冬瓜, 西瓜, 你傻瓜
shǎ guā bú huì chī xī guā
傻瓜 不会吃 西瓜
*冬瓜 dōng guā = melon
*傻瓜 shǎ guā = fool
*不会 bú huì chī = not know how
* 吃 = eat
***Compare it to “pick a potato” – same idea

35. 今天的功课(課) (九月十七日星期二)
Study L1 D1 & D2 CC & Grammar
L1 复习Quiz - 星期五

36. Warm Up (九月十八日星期三) L1 Review quiz 打太极 一～三 式 Check green sheet
L1D1&D2 Dialogues
L1 Review quiz
打太极
一～三 式
Check green sheet