schedule of ChIN 1-1

2008-2009 课程进度表（一）

Chinese I

上课内容

任课教师：王秀娟

复习、预习和作业

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时 内容 间 08/28 A 10：5011：30 周四

Orientation to Chinese I: 1. Discussion: course expectation and materials 2. Lecture: introduction to China and Chinese language 3. pronunciation(simple finals, initials & tones) 4. Chinese names

Speaking practice: 你好！我是 XXX。 Practice pronunciation of names Initials: b p m f d t n l ; j q x Vowels: a o i Chinese pronunciation

08/29 B 周五

1. Pinyin practice: Initials & compound finals 2. Learn to say greetings: 老师好！ 同学们好！再见！ 3. Learn to say 北京欢迎你！ while listening to the song.

Pinyin practice: Chinese pronunciation Workbook P1-6; tones for preparation

09/02 C 周二

1. Pinyin practice: greetings 2. zh ch sh; z c s practice 3. Tones practice P8-9;P13 4. 她们是我朋友。

Workbook P7-9 Oral practice: 他、她是…;你们好；她 们…

Pinyin 星期

09/03 D 周三

Pinyin: practice greeting words with Pinyin.

Learn to say: What’s your name? 请问你叫什么名字？ 谢谢！不客气！

09/04 E 周四

1. Pinyin: Initials and finals, especially j q x ju+finals 2. Greetings: 你好！我叫… 你们好！ 她是/叫… 请问你叫什么名字？ 3. Character writing：一，二， 三…

Workbook P11-12 Speaking practice: Greetings

Speaking practice: Greetings Writing practice: strokes, 横，竖， 撇，捺。 Homework: write 1,2,3,… on a piece of paper

Monday is Labor Day

Diary: 1. Pinyin is not that difficult for 9th grade students. The teacher could first introduce those which have similar sounds with English, and ask them to do nǐ hǎo, wáng lǎo shī … Thus their interest will be aroused. When they are able to pronounce my name xiù juān, I know their biggest trouble in learning Pinyin is gone.

2. The teacher does not need to put every new character into English. It depends. From 我 to 我们， 他/她 to 他们/她们，I didn’t try to emphasize 们， but ask them to see, listen and say. I first addressed to one, and then 2 of them , and three, and one again. To my surprise, when they were asked to do greeting activity , they all could put it correctly.

3. After students have learned simple greetings, the teacher can ask them to read the whole thing of Pinyin in alphabetic table, and more practice is required at this stage. Exercise like producing the sound is necessary. The teacher can ask students to produce jīn tiān xīng qī yī (Today is Monday), for the second day students are able to report the day in Chinese.