1. 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?

2. Today’s lesson objectives
Review summer homework
Review rules and expectations from last lesson
Learn how to say numbers in Chinese from 1-10
Learn the Chinese hand signals for numbers

3. Expectations – what I expect from you:
Listen in silence when somebody else in the room speaks
2. Arrive to lessons on time, with all equipment and be ready to learn.
3. Follow instructions and respect each other and property

4. I will need the following for all of my lessons:
Exercise book and vocabulary book
Textbook
Stationery
(pencil, pen, ruler, coloured pen, gluestick)
Planner/ Homework diary

5. What you can expect from me:
Rewards: ‘sticker’ system – for good pieces of work/listening exercises/manners/trying your best/participating. These will be added up at the end of each half term and the student with the most stickers can expect a prize
Sanctions: late/incomplete homework/rudeness/failure to follow instructions/not respecting fellow classmates/constant failure to bring equipment and other forms of poor behaviour will result in detentions, being placed on ‘report’, being sent to HoD, withdrawal or letters/phone calls home

6. Monitor and record your progress and share details of your progress with you
Regularly mark your books
To help you when you are stuck
To challenge you so you make progress!

7. Numbers

8. yī​ 一 1

9. èr​​ 二 2

10. sān​​​ 三 3

11. 二 三 一

12. sì​​​​ 四 4

13. wǔ​​​​​ 五 5

14. liù​​​​​​ 六 6

15. 二 三 四 一 五 六

16. qī​​​​​​​ 七 7

17. bā​​​​​​​​ 八 8

18. jiǔ​​​​​​​​​ 九 9

19. shí​​​​​​​​​​ 十 10

20. 二 三 四 一 五 六 七 八 九 十

21. 五

22. 四

23. 一

24. 九

25. 八

26. Practise!

27. Numbers
Write out the characters, pinyin and English for the numbers 1-10 from page 18.
EXT: Practise the 3 characters that you find most difficult in your exercise book.

28. yī​
èr​
sān​
sì​
wǔ​

29. liù​
qī​
bā​
jiǔ​
shí​

30. 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:
b) 小红:
c) 丽丽:
3) Hope to ……(learn/achieve…)

32. 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.