1. 第一课 你好

2. What am I learning today?
Greetings
Sentence patterns
你好! Hello.
你好吗？ How are you?
我很好。 I’m fine.
Vocabulary
你 ， 好 ， 您 ， 我 ， 吗 ， 很
nǐ hǎo nín wǒ ma hěn
Characters：你，我，好，四，五，六，七

3. How to say hello in Mandarin? 
Warm up：
你好 nǐ hǎo
Slide three: Warm up 老师们可以根据自己的需要加入复习的内容。
Teachers can ask relevant questions to start this lesson.
How to say hello in Mandarin?  3

4. New words

5. good;
fine

6. 很
hěn
very
very

7. 吗 ma
ma ?
(interrogative word)

8. 我 wǒ
I; me
I; me

9. 你 nǐ
you
you

10. 您
nín
you（with respect）
you (respectful form of 你)

11. CAN YOU REMEMBER THE NEW VOCABULARY?
Exercises and games on vocabulary
CAN YOU REMEMBER THE NEW VOCABULARY?

12. What’re the characters on board?
好 很 吗
你 您 我

13. What are the following words in Mandarin?
good;
fine
very
I; me
you
you（with respect）

14. 好
hǎo
good; fine 很
hěn
very 吗 ma
(interrogative word) 我 wǒ
I; me 你 nǐ
you 您
nín
you (respectful form of 你)

15. Please match the vocabulary with the English meaning好 很 吗 你 您 我
very good; fine you I; me you (respectful form of 你) Interrogative word

16. you（respectful form of 你）
Let’s play
Slap the Board
good， fine
very
hello
Game---Slap the Board
Two students stand in front of the board.
The teacher or another student speak out the word, the one who slaps the correct word first wins.
you（respectful form of 你）
I，me
you 16

17. 好 您 我 very hello you Slap the Board Let’s play Game---Slap the Board
Two students stand in front of the board.
The teacher or another student speak out the word, the one who slaps the correct word first wins. 我
you 17

18. 你 好 我 您 很 你好 你好 您好 吗 Slap the Board Let’s play Game---Slap the Board
Two students stand in front of the board.
The teacher or another student speak out the word, the one who slaps the correct word first wins. 你好 您好 吗 18

19. Let’s try to write some Chinese characters

27. How many strokes are there in each character?
you 你 wǒ
I; me 我 好
Good;
fine
hǎo
How many strokes are there in each character?
Do you know?
Stroke number 7 7 6 27

28. sì 4 四 wǔ 5 五 六 6
liù qī 7 七
Stroke number 5 4 4 2 28

29. Game time: Slap the Board你 我 五 四
Game---Slap the Board
Two students stand in front of the board.
The teacher or another student speak out the word, the one who slaps the correct word first wins. 29 29

30. Game time: Slap the Board六 好 七 五
Game---Slap the Board
Two students stand in front of the board.
The teacher or another student speak out the word, the one who slaps the correct word first wins. 30 30

31. Sentence pattern

32. Basic sentence pattern
Subject +…+ adjective.
你 好！
我 好。
Notes：A word like 很 is normally needed in this
kind of sentence, but different from English,
是 (to be) is not used here.
E.g 我是很好。 (X)
我是好。 (X) 很

33. Which sentence is right?
我很好。
我是好。
你很好。
你是很好。
你好！

34. How to make a interrogative sentence with 吗?
你好 吗？
你是英国人吗？
英国: Britain 英国人: British

35. 我 吗 您 很
Can you make a
sentence
with these characters? 好 你

36. Activity: let’s make a greeting card in Mandarin 
TOM：
你好！
Activity: let’s make a greeting card in Mandarin 
Here is my card. 
How about yours?

37. What have I learnt today？
Greetings
句型：
你好。
你好吗？
我很好。
生词：
你, 好, 您, 我， 吗， 很
汉字：
你， 我， 好， 四， 五， 六， 七