Years 5/6 Chinese Program Second year – Semester One
Links with Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards
- Bu səhifədəki naviqasiya:
- Use simple spoken and written Chinese about school life
- Topic 12 (Y6T2b): ‘COME SUN OR RAIN!’ Calendars, Weather and the Dragon Boat Festival Lessons: Approx. 7 (45 min each)
- 听tīng
- Teaching and Learning Activities Resources
- Explore the training module section of the following Language Learning Space challenges for more online activities or use the whole challenge as an advanced option.
- Cultural/Intercultural Understandings
- Links with Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards
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Topic 12 (Y6T2b): ‘COME SUN OR RAIN!’ Calendars, Weather and the Dragon Boat Festival |
Lessons: Approx. 7 (45 min each) | ||||
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Overview: Having already learned clock times and week days, students now learn more time-related words including those for days, dates and seasons. In this topic students will learn how to specify the date of their birthday and will learn about the date of the Dragon Boat Festival whilst learning a bit more about this traditional holiday. They will also try using some basic weather words which can be helpful in conversation and in viewing weather forecasts in Chinese contexts. The key verb for this topic is听tīng which means ‘to hear’ or ‘to listen’. | |||||
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Key vocabulary and structures |
Literal Translation |
Full translation | ||||
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生日Shēngrì |
Life-day |
Birthday | ||||
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你的生日是几月几号? Nǐ de shēngrì shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào? |
You-possessive birthday is which month which day? |
When is your birthday? | ||||
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祝你生日快乐！Zhù nǐ shēngrì kuàilè! |
Wish you birthday fast-happy! |
Happy Birthday! (As sung: ‘Happy birthday to you…’) | ||||
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一月yī yuè, 二月èryuè… 十二月shí'èryuè |
First month, second month…. twelfth month |
January, February… December | ||||
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昨天 Zuótiān今天jīntiān明天míngtiān |
Behind day, current day, bright day |
Yesterday, today, tomorrow | ||||
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下星期一xià xīngqīyī, 下星期三xià xīngqīsān |
Under weekday one, under weekday three |
Next Monday, next Wednesday | ||||
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三天后 Sān tiān hòu |
Three days later/behind |
3 days from now | ||||
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两个月前Liăng gè yuè qián |
Two (measure word) months before/in-front |
2 months ago | ||||
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天气Tiānqì |
Day/sky/heavens gas/air |
Weather | ||||
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预报Yùbào |
Advance report |
Forecast | ||||
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听天气预报Tīng tiānqì yùbào |
Listen weather forecast |
Listen to the weather forecast | ||||
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有小雨Yǒu xiǎoyǔ |
Have small/a-little rain |
Light rain | ||||
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刮风guā fēng |
Scrape-wind |
Windy | ||||
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下雨xià yǔ,下雪xià xuě |
Down-rain, Down-snow |
Rainy, snowy | ||||
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晴天qíngtiān, 阴天yīn tiān |
Clear-day, Shady-day |
Sunny, overcast | ||||
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晴转阴qíng zhuǎn yīn, 阴转晴yīn zhuǎn qíng |
Clear-turning-shady, Shady-turning-clear |
Fine becoming overcast, overcast becoming fine | ||||
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冷lěng, 热rè |
Cold, hot |
Cold, hot | ||||
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多云duōyún |
Many clouds |
Partly cloudy | ||||
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度dù |
Degree (celcius) |
Degree | ||||
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零下língxià |
Zero-down |
Below zero | ||||
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打雷Dǎléi, 有雾yǒu wù |
Hit-thunder, have-fog |
Thunder, fog | ||||
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夏天,秋天,冬天,春天 Xiàtiān, qiūtiān, dōngtiān, chūntiān |
Summer-sky, Autumn-sky, Winter-sky, Spring-sky |
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring | ||||
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端午节快乐! Duānwǔ jié kuàilè! |
Duānwǔ festival happy! |
Happy Dragon Boat Festival! | ||||
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吃粽子Chī zòngzi |
Eat dumplings (glutinous ones wrapped in leaves) |
Eat Zong-zi (These ones are just called ‘Zong-zi’ in English) | ||||
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夏天到 Xià tiān dào |
Summer-sky arrive |
Summer is here | ||||
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划龙舟 Huá lóng zhōu |
Row dragon boat |
Row a dragon boat | ||||
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Teaching and Learning Activities |
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There is a variety of video clip material relating to dates and birthdays. Going through these as a class (with the pause button at the ready) will allow students to see and hear important phrases. They can take notes, repeat aloud, discuss new words and compare options for question and answer phrases. Encourage them to take notes to use in a conversation about themselves and their partner. |
Growing Up With Chinese Ep. 10 (15min) ‘Dates’: http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/20100903/100852.shtml Cultural and historical information about the cultural traditions of birthdays in China including some vocabulary (4min 37s): Chinese Birthday Celebrations! Off the Great Wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odpy9yypL34 Asking someone when their birthday is in different ways (teacher led clip with written Pinyin, 3min 8s): Happy Birthday in Mandarin / Chinese Live Mandarin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrPbxh-NMk Vocabulary and sentences about birthdays and an explanation of the Happy Birthday song in Chinese (3min 21s): Learn Happy Birthday Song 生日快乐 in Mandarin Chinese! Learn Chinese with Emma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUz2UVdNC1I | |||||
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Play ‘Get in Order’. This activity can be used to practise years, months, birthdays, etc. How to play: Divide the class into two or three groups. Give each student a card. They are required to ask and compare each other's dates and get into line from the earliest to the latest dates or vice versa. The same game could also be played with birthdays. |
Chinese Language Games: Get in Order www.lls.edu.au/teacherspace/professionallearning/16 | |||||
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Digital games about dates and birthdays can be accessed via the recommended Quizlet and BBC links. Depending on the technology available to the class these could be used as a whole group (i.e. on a digital whiteboard), in small groups or individually. |
Time periods word memory game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/mandarin/my_calendar/games/magic_cards_time_periods Months word reading memory game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/mandarin/my_calendar/games/magic_cards_months Months listening memory game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/mandarin/my_calendar/games/hit_the_word_months Quizlet cards on birthday sentence construction: https://quizlet.com/19451977/when-is-your-birthday-flash-cards | |||||
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Try a quick prioritisation game: have students list the five most important weather words they think it would be useful to know in Chinese. When they have done so, ask them to join with a partner and reprioritise or negotiate a new top list of 5 words. Then do this renegotiation once more as a group of four. Around this stage encourage them to use dictionaries or the internet to find these five terms in Chinese and present them to the class with an explanation for why they were selected as the most useful to know. |
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The teacher-led lesson clip by Emma and the song by Groovi Pauli will give the students more vocabulary exposure, as will going through the BBC page of weather words and pronunciation files. |
Clip (4m 55s): Teacher led lesson on learn Different Weather in Mandarin Chinese- Learn Chinese with Emma! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJHyXa9Sv2M Song (1m 44s): ‘Summertime is here!’ 暑假来了 (shǔ jià lái le) by Groovi Pauli & Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ7tuPpJi8M Weather word identification memory game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/mandarin/our_world/games/magic_cards_ourworld_weather
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The two Growing Up With Chinese episodes about weather cover a lot of content about discussing activity plans, listening to weather reports and wondering whether to proceed with plans if there might be ‘isolated showers’. These episodes could perhaps be treated as extension activities for students who want to proceed through them to pause and take notes. |
Growing Up With Chinese Ep. 22 (15min) ‘Weather, Part 1’: http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/20101223/105335.shtml Growing Up With Chinese Ep. 23 (15min) ‘Weather, Part 2’: http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/20101227/102572.shtml | |||||
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The Quizlet card games will encourage students to memorise some of the main vocabulary. |
Quizlet cards on weather: https://quizlet.com/16751897/weather-flash-cards | |||||
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Students design a weather report or weather forecast (either digitally or on poster paper), perhaps for a strange planet with unusual weather. |
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The Dragon Boat Festival is a popular celebration which occurs around the summer solstice every year in China (the exact date changes owing to the lunar calendar). Students can see the modern day celebrations and become familiar with some key phrases via the Groovi Pauli song. |
Song and explanation (4min): Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 (duān wǔ jié) by Groovi Pauli & Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN37kwEONEc | |||||
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The clip from Hello China gives an overview of the more sombre story attributed to the older traditions of the Dragon Boat Festival. The ‘Growing Up With Chinese’ episode on ‘Dragon Boat Festival’ touches on the traditions of making Zongzi and introduces some new useful words and sentence structures. |
Informative clip (2m 40s): Hello China - Dragon Boat Festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYtZ6KX-IkM&index=33&list=PLCFDD3F76245D00A9 Further information on Dragon Boat Festival customs http://www.travelchinaguide.com/essential/holidays/dragon-boat.htm Growing Up With Chinese Ep. 30 (15min) ‘Dragon Boat Festival’: http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/20110125/106553.shtml | |||||
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Students compile a list of the Chinese festivals and celebrations they have explored so far, listing common features and key differences. |
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Explore the training module section of the following Language Learning Space challenges for more online activities or use the whole challenge as an advanced option. | ||||||
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Advanced option: LANGUAGE LEARNING SPACE CHALLENGE - PHONE ZONE! TOPIC: Birthdays (LEVEL: Beginner) Students learn to ask and answer questions about their birthday, sing 'Happy Birthday' in Chinese and explore the origin of the Chinese word for month. They are familiarised with customs relating to how Chinese people celebrate birthdays. http://www.lls.edu.au/teacherspace/allchallenges/30 | ||||||
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Advanced option: LANGUAGE LEARNING SPACE CHALLENGE - FIRE AND ICE! TOPIC: Weather (LEVEL: Intermediate) Students learn weather-related vocabulary, how to understand and give a simple weather report in Chinese. They also explore the origin of characters for describing the weather. http://www.lls.edu.au/teacherspace/allchallenges/10 | ||||||
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Cultural/Intercultural Understandings The understandings cover a selection of possible areas where students could reflect on Chinese culture and their own. It is not prescriptive but rather a guide for teachers to add or adapt. | |||||
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In recent decades, birthdays in China have started to look more like celebrations that Westerners may be familiar with (presents, cakes, candles, singing etc.). However, traditionally birthdays have only been cause for great celebration for little children and adults 60 plus. Traditionally, a baby was thought to ‘turn one’ shortly after being born because age was calculated from conception rather than birth. Rather than adding a year to one’s age every birthday, Chinese tradition also dictated that everyone got one year older at Chinese New Year. Tiny babies could therefore be referred to as ‘two years old’ within a matter of days if they were born near the end of the lunar year. Peaches and long noodles are included among other traditional festivities for birthday celebrations. Lots of Chinese people get to celebrate their birthday on the actual anniversary of their birth and their ‘Chinese Birthday’ shortly after. Even though ‘Dragon Boat Festival’ is the official translation for this festival, ‘端午Duānwǔ’ doesn’t really mean ‘Dragon Boat’ at all. Actually, ‘端Duān’ is an aspect word and the ‘午Wǔ’ refers to this holiday’s original position which was the fifth day of the fifth month (五月, Wǔyuè) of the traditional Chinese calendar which used to be known as 午 (Wǔ). This word can also mean midday or middle, and this festival happens right around the middle of the year. Dragon boat races are a visually distinctive part of the celebrations so it was a catchier and more memorable name for English speaker to use when referring to this festival. The tradition of having Dragon Boats and of having Zongzi (glutinous rice dumplings) are both said to come from the sad story of Qu, a patriotic, loyal minister who ultimately drowned himself after being slandered in ancient China (around 278 BC). The story says that people tried to rescue him in long boats and threw Zongzi into the river to distract hungry fish from his body. Today, Dragon Boat races are much more fun and the feasting is a joyous occasion for families. | ||||||
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Links with Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards |
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Access information from weather forecasts - 天气预报, tiānqì yùbào |
Y6 Ach. St. | |||||
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