Unit title: 嗨！Hi! Introducing yourself in Chinese Area of interaction focus Which area of interaction will be our focus? Why have we chosen this? Significant concepts What are the big ideas? What do we want our students to retain for years into the future? Human Ingenuity The creation and use of language as a means of communicating. Exploring grammatical patterns as a way of building and creating language. Language is a foundation for everyday life, human interaction and general learning. Communication with others always depends on some form of language. MYP unit question How can we benefit from learning a foreign language? How is learning a symbol/character-based language different to learning an alphabet based language?

Numbers LO: Learn about stroke order Review the numbers from 11-99 Learn about tones Learn how to say your age

Starter: Read the sums below and for each question tick if correct or cross if false. EXT. Write the correct answer for the false answers.​ Example: 2 + 4 = 六 一。10 + 9 = 十七 二。66 – 20 =　四十六 三。47 + 51 = 九十八 四。28 x 3 = 八十六 五。93 ÷ 3 = 三十   十九    八十四  三十一

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Tones LO: Learn about stroke order Review the numbers from 11-99 Learn about tones Learn how to say your age

nǐ duō​ dà 你 多 大 you many big

nǐ duō​ dà ? 你 多 大 ？ How old are you?

wǒ 我 I

suì​ ​​​​​ 岁 years old

你多大？ 我 岁 Age + + I am …….. years old

我六岁 I am 6 years old

我二十岁 I am 20 years old

nǐ​ duō​ dà​ wǒ​ suì​

Age Write out the characters, pinyin and English for: ‘years old’, ‘How old are you?’ , ‘You’, ‘I am…years old’, ‘I’ on 第十八页。 Write out the grammar note on 第四页。 EXT: Write out the Chinese for each of the ages below: 11 15 20 36 58

3) Hope to ……(learn/achieve…) So, you think you know your numbers? Work with a partner to translate the following mobile phone numbers into Chinese (characters and pinyin!): a) 明明: 14579 632 454 b) 小红: 19820 352 746 c) 丽丽: 19753 241 687 3) Hope to ……(learn/achieve…)

Homework Decorate your Chinese exercise books so they are identifiably ‘Chinese’ and cover with plastic. Learn the characters and pinyin for the numbers 1-10.Test on Monday.

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