1. Foreign Language Survey
December 16, 2016

2. Warm up response For each type of food write: What it is
What the kids thought of it
What you think you would think about it
Food type 1
Food type 2

3. Let’s take a look at china!
Slightly smaller than the United States
Fourth largest country in terms of land area behind:
1. Russia
2. Canada
3. United States

4. China - Geography Mt. Everest: Yangtze River: The Gobi Desert:
Tallest mountain on Earth (29,029 ft.)
On the border of China and Nepal
Yangtze River:
Longest River in China
Third longest river in the world
Empties into the East China Sea at Shanghai
The Gobi Desert:
Large desert in northern China and southern Mongolia
Picture: By Jialiang Gao (Original Photograph) [GFDL ( CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( or CC-BY-SA ( via Wikimedia Commons

5. Notes Set up a page in your notebook for notes.
Make 3 columns with the titles:
Government
Economy
Culture

6. China - Government Government type: communist
Chief of state: president
Head of government: premier
Picture: by Antilong (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons
Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013

7. China - Government
Only members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), parties allied with the CCP, or CCP approved candidates can be elected
No major political opposition groups exist
Image: By Converted from Image:Flag of the Chinese Communist Party.svg by User:PhiLiP with Inkscape. Outline added for visibility by User:Henry Dorsett Case [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Emblem of the Communist Party of China

8. China - Government
China is divided into 23 provinces*, 5 autonomous regions, and 4 municipalities
Despite its size, China is only within one time zone
*China considers Taiwan its 23rd province
By Map_of_PRC_with_province_names_zh-cn.svg: Created by User:PhiLiP. derivative work: Translation by Peter17 (Map_of_PRC_with_province_names_zh-cn.svg) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( or GFDL ( via Wikimedia Commons

9. China - Government Hong Kong Occupied by the United Kingdom in 1841
Returned to Chinese control in 1997
China has promised Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy
Hong Kong Flag (from CIA World Factbook): red with a stylized, white, five-petal Bauhinia flower in the center; each petal contains a small, red, five-pointed star in its middle; the red color is the same as that on the Chinese flag and represents the motherland; the fragrant Bauhinia - developed in Hong Kong the late 19th century - has come to symbolize the region; the five stars echo those on the flag of China
Hong Kong picture:

10. Chinese food in America…
Go back to your warm-up page
First, we will get the reality of what foods we think are Chinese are not really Chinese at all!
Now we will watch some actual Chinese people trying food at Panda Express…
Track what foods the Chinese people try
Track their reactions by marking how many people like it and how many don’t like it
Have you tried these foods? What did you think?
Video clip #1
Video clip #2

11. China - Economy GDP per capita: $9,800 World rank: 121st
Monetary unit: yuan/renminbi
Currency picture:

12. China - Economy
China’s economy has been moving from being controlled by the government to having more private businesses
China is the world’s largest exporter of goods
Picture: by Beat Strasser (Flickr: China Shipping Line) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons

13. China - Economy
China is the second largest economy behind the United States
Pollution is a long-term problem
Picture: by High Contrast (Own work) [CC-BY-2.0-de ( via Wikimedia Commons

14. Chinese people try our foods…
fortune cookies
String cheese
Snacks (Korean people)