Mandarin Chinese lesson four

Topic: time and date

Session time: 60 minutes
Objectives
Introduce
objectives

topic

and

Activity
lesson Show students slide 1 and slide 2 to bring out the topic and learning objectives.

Time
1 min

Recap the numbers learned in Ask students to recall the numbers. If the students cannot remember, ask them to 4 mins
lesson two
listen to the recording on slide 3.
Learn to talk about time

Go to slide 4, and introduce the words and examples. Then move on to slide 5 to 10 mins
look at more examples. To introduce two more words a quarter and half. Use
slide 6 to drill through it.
Learn to talk about daily routine
Introduce a few words for daily routine on slide 7, and then move to slide 8 to look 5 mins
at some sentences. Ask students to talk about their daily routine using the sentence
structure in examples.
Learn to talk about date and week Show students slide 9, and listen to the recording on this slide. Ask students to 20 mins
days
repeat after it. Then go to slide 10 to introduce how to say a certain date in Chinese
using the example on this slide. Continue to move to slide 11 to show students how
to say their birthdays. After it, teacher can ask students to say their birthdays in
Chinese. Move slide 12 to continue introducing week days, and drill through it.

Learn to use question word ji

Learn to write characters

Conclusion

Mover to slide 13, and show students how to use ji to make questions about time, 10 mins
date and days with examples. Introduce some new words in the examples. Drill
through the questions, and ask students to answer them. Reveal the possible
answers on slide 14, and ask students to check their answers.
Show students how to write the characters on slide 15, and give them some time to 9 mins
practice in class.
Go through what we learned today, and leave some homework.

1 min