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

3. 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: = 六
一。 = 十七
二。66 – 20 =　四十六
三。 = 九十八
四。28 x 3 = 八十六
五。93 ÷ 3 = 三十   十九   
八十四 
三十一

4. Number-randometer!

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

6. nǐ
duō​ dà 你 多 大
you
many
big

7. nǐ
duō​ dà ? 你 多 大 ？
How old are you?

8. wǒ 我 I

9. suì​ ​​​​​ 岁
years old

10. 你多大？ 我 岁
Age + +
I am …….. years old

11. 我六岁
I am 6 years old

12. 我二十岁
I am 20 years old

13. nǐ​
duō​
dà​
wǒ​
suì​

14. 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

15. 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…)

16. 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.