Whole-school Mandarin resources: social issues

Are you learning or teaching Mandarin? I have developed different worksheets and 57 pictures of different settings you can talk about in class. I based my work on an ESL pack I developed and thought it could be equally effectively used for different languages. The worksheets are in English and your students need to find the Mandarin equivalents. There is an end of lesson fun game where the students show their knowledge in a game of Bingo.

This booklet contains eight units, which cover topics including employment, city and environment, housing, school life, health, entertainment, media and travel. Chinese, pinyin, and English format makes it easy for revision. Sentence structures in each lesson is provided to practice speaking. It can be used for S3/S4 pupils. It's a very handy booklet for children to learn by themselves and for teacher to use as lesson materials. Pupils can also use it as a revision tool to study for assessments.

Key characters - must know for GCSE Chinese Mandarin

This is an example of CLIL program, delivering the science topic-Food Chain in Chinese language. This PPT has adopted an unique way to present Chinese language to beginners. Vividly and colorfully demonstrated, this PPT becomes very popular with my students. It provokes cognitive thinking to a great extent besides Chinese language learning.

Let’s get to know China! This worksheet includes 17 pages with a great variety of activities and exercises about China. The materials have informative exercises about the things that China is famous for, such as Dynasties, Mao Zedong, the Cultural Revolution, the Great Wall, Tibet, Pollution and many other things! Crosswords, word searches, puzzles and other kinds of activities are included to make it a fun and interesting class. Overview: Page 1: China in pictures Page 2/3: Brief introduction to China Page 4: History of ancient China Page 5/6: History of modern China Page 7: The Great Wall Page 8: The Terracotta Warriors Page 9: Confucianism Page 10/11: Chinese attractions Page 12: Chinese New Year Page 13: Hong Kong: One country, two systems Page 14: Pollution Page 15: Factories: Made in China Page 16: Tibet Page 17: Revision The answers and an answer sheet are included. The following questions are just a few of the things that will be handled in the worksheet. - What are dynasties? - Who is Mao Zedong and what did he do? - What is Confucianism? - What is the difference between Hong Kong and China? - Why were the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall built? - Why is there so much pollution in China? - What is the Cultural Revolution? You might also like these worksheets: South Korea Japan Egypt India Geography - Asia Ancient Civilizations You can save money by purchasing bundles! All units: 28 Country Studies Asian Country Studies Keywords: China, Pollution, Tibet, Dalai Lama, Communists, Communism, Mao Zedong (Tse tung), Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, Dynasties, Confucianism, Confucius, One-Child-Policy, Shanghai, Panda.

These pages could also be used to write different stories, using the pictures as a stimulus. ***** Please note - these resources provide visual prompts and support to the students, not direct language instruction ************** Welcome to the Let’s Write in Mandarin! pack. There are lots of ways of using this teaching pack. It could be used as writing assessment for students learning Mandarin. The students could write about a topic in Mandarin before starting a unit, and then write again about the topic, using the second worksheet at the end of the topic to see how much they have progressed. It could also be used as an introduction to guided writing. Students can write sentences as a class and share the sentences together and they can then write them on their own. Alternatively, students could work in pairs - one student dictates to the other what to write down about what they see in the picture.