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Hey guys, welcome to my shop. I am an AU based Mandarin/ESL teacher with experience of K-12 language teaching and adult education. I do hope the resources I am sharing here contribute to your teaching. If you have any questions or great ideas that you'd like to discuss, feel free to contact me via social media. You may easily find the link to my Instagram/Pinterest account on my homepage. Let's collaborate and make language learning super fun for kids!
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Excellent for vocabulary drill, helping students consolidate their knowledge of colours vocabulary as well as practise handwriting skills.
Works well for both individual work and group activity.
Can be either used in class or set as homework.
Students write down the colours either in Pinyin or Chinese characters (depending on their levels.)
Optional activity: Ask students to share which colours they have learned are not listed on that worksheet.
Appropriate for K-12.
Suitable for Primary Level!
Students learn to say and write animals’ names in Chinese. Students create a mini-book using provided templates. Students also learn the use of different measure words in counting animals.
Including:
Flashcards
Word mat
Animals worksheets
Mini-book templates
Measure words worksheets
Overview
This activity pack is purposefully designed for Mandarin beginners. It is highly recommended to Mandarin teachers as well as parents who are homeschooling their children or would like some extra fun work for their Mandarin-loving kids. 26 creative and original worksheets are included to support learners with different backgrounds and learning needs.
For Mandarin learners, mastering numbers helps to lay a solid foundation to the learning of many other concepts where numbers play an essential and inseparable part, such as talking about time and shopping. This practical activity pack provides a wide range of entertaining activities and drilling exercises focusing on developing students’ different language skills. It enables teachers/parents to help students learn, review and consolidate their knowledge of numbers in Chinese in a charming and fun way!
Highlights
• Engaging Worksheets
26 thoughtfully designed worksheets, including a variety of engaging activities, some of which contain differentiated versions for different levels of students. Collaborative and interactive activities promoting pair work or group work are also included in this pack. Take the Matching Cards activity for example, students can play in pairs or groups. The Cut&Match worksheets (two versions: ice cream cones & pencils) can be printed out on A3 papers to create larger cards. Before cutting out the cards, students can play Fly Swat in pairs using the sheet. Don’t forget to laminate the sheets to increase durability.
Note: for all included worksheets, students can write in either Chinese characters or Pinyin according to their levels.
• Handy Answer Keys
Carefully designed Answer Keys to help simplify the process of checking answers and provide scaffolding where needed.
Peer Assessment - When checking answers, teachers could ask students to swap their worksheets with one another and peer mark each other’s work.
Scaffolding (Exemplars) - To best scaffold some students, teachers/parents can use a reasonable part of the Answer Key sheet as exemplars to show students explicitly what they need to do.
• Fostering Handwriting Skills
Creative ways of exploring the numbers in Chinese characters and fostering students’ handwriting skills through using the uniquely designed Three-Step Writing Initiative.
• Various Uses
This activity pack can be applied in varied ways that best suit educators’ needs. For example, the included worksheets can be used to assess students’ knowledge, to be given to students as homework or to be provided to causal casual/relief teachers as set work.
50 pages in total (excluding cover page).
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Two Word Mats about Numbers are included.
Word Mat 1
零,一,二,三,四,五,六,七,八,九,十,百
Word Mat 2
十,二十,三十,四十,五十,六十,七十,八十,九十,百,千,万
Tips: Print out the word mats on A3 paper, have them laminated to increase durability. Use the word mats as scaffoldings in the classroom.
Use this set of entertaining worksheets to learn/revise colours.
Check out the enriched pack here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/colours-activity-pack-for-mandarin-beginners-12128540
Overview
Check out this collection of creative and fun paper cutting activity! TEN original templates specially designed for 2022, the Year of Tiger. This collection purposefully includes three Chinese characters that are related to the celebration of the Year of Tiger, 寅(yín), 吉(jí) and 春(chūn). Through this activity, children are afforded with opportunities to learn about this Chinese folk art, explore different cultural elements and look at Chinese characters from a fun perspective.
Students’ complete work also makes fantastic bulletin board display! Kids love seeing their work up on the wall, especially as part of the Spring Festival celebration!
Highlights
Creative Design
Chinese characters and cultural elements are meaningfully integrated. Explicit instructions and sample work are available on each template. Easy to follow and cut with no less fun.
Two Versions
Two versions are included in the file, coloured and uncoloured. Each template in the coloured version contains 2 pages which need to be printed on both sides on white paper, while the uncoloured one can be simply printed out on any colour paper you wish.
Flexible Uses
★Spring Festival celebration & classroom decoration
This collection makes a great in-class activity at the beginning of the new school year as we look to celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival around February. Using students’ completed work to decorate the classroom will certainly give them a real sense of achievement.
★Co-curricular activity
This collection serves as an engaging and charming co-curricular activity which can be run during breaks or after-school time.
★Remote learning activity
Students would enjoy spending time doing some paper cutting and decorating their house (with their parents) at home!
★Set work
Of course, this activity would make great set work for casual/relief teachers.
Happy Cutting Everyone!
Wishing you all a great start to the new year. :)
This set of word mats is a must-have for Mandarin/bilingual teachers in their classrooms. These well-designed display posters are fantastic resources that can greatly assist students’ language acquisition in the classrooms. They can be used in so many different ways, such as introducing new vocabulary, revising learned words, playing games, supporting students in their learning activities and so on.
The student version of word mats have also been included in this set where Pinyin and Chinese characters of each word has been purposefully removed. They can be used as worksheets or in-class quiz sheets. Students can be given the plain word mat to take down notes when they are first introduced to the vocabulary or to use it as a revision worksheet.
Topics included are:
My Family
Colours
Numbers (2 pages)
Countries
Animals (2 pages)
Transport
Ball Games
Musical Instruments
Daily Routines
My Hobbies
I’m Sick
Food
Drinks
Fruit (3 pages)
Vegetables (3 pages)
Clothes
Total pages: 44 pages
This collection of Match It! worksheets is highly recommended for teaching/learning Mandarin Chinese. Kids love cutting and matching up cards! These charming and entertaining worksheets can be utilized in varied ways, at different stages of teaching and learning, to enhance students’ language acquisition. Both Pinyin and Chinese characters are provided to support students.
Suggested ways of using this collection:
Matching
Flip Flop
Assessment
Extension Work
Homework
Set Work
**Note: detailed uses of this collection is attached. **
Various topics are covered in this collection. 30 original sets of cards are in included.
List of Topics
Numbers (2 pages)
Days of the Week
Months (2 pages)
Family Members
Body Parts (2 pages)
Colours (2 pages)
Clothes (2 pages)
Animals (4 pages)
Hobbies (2 pages)
Daily Routines
Questions Words
Pronouns
Verbs (2 pages)
Food (2 pages)
Dessert
Fruit (2 pages)
Veggies (2 pages)
Sports
Weather
Feelings
Transportation
Countries (2 pages)
Continents
Occupation (2 pages)
Electronic Devices
Stationery
Rooms
Furniture
Festivals
Christmas
Must-haves for Mandarin beginners! ♡
Charming ways of learning Mandarin Chinese!
Themes included in this bundle:
Numbers
Clothes
Colours
Family
Body Parts
Animals
Click on each product to view detailed information.
Overview
This ultimate activity pack is a thoughtful collection of fun, engaging and exciting Christmas-themed activities for Mandarin learners. It is highly recommended to Mandarin teachers as well as parents who are homeschooling their children or would like some extra fun work for their Mandarin-loving kids. 63 creative and original worksheets are included to support learners with different backgrounds and learning needs.
Christmas has been an all-time fun theme to learn towards the end of a school year. Learning it in a foreign language can bring so much joy! This practical activity pack provides a variety of engaging and entertaining activities and drilling exercises focusing on developing students’ different language skills. It also allows teachers/parents to help children learn, review and consolidate their prior knowledge of numbers and colours as well as handwriting skills in Mandarin Chinese in a uniquely charming way!
Through this activity pack, students learn to say and write core Chinese characters. These words will be reinforced through various fun learning activities, ranging from craft activities to colouring activities.
This activity set includes:
Write & Colour Worksheets (6 core words)
Vocabulary Introduction Worksheets (2 sets, 4 pages)
Mix & Match (3 pages)
Count & Match (3 pages)
Cut & Match (2 pages)
Holiday Craft (4 pages)
Candy Box Craft (1 page)
Christmas Dice (2 pages)
Holiday Finger Puppets (4 pages)
Christmas Wheel (4 pages)
Mix & Match Cards Template (1 page)
Christmas Puzzle (2 pages)
Count Worksheet (4 pages)
Ornament Colouring (1 page)
Colour by Number Colouring Worksheets (16 pages)
Colour by keys (2 pages)
Free Colouring Worksheets (5 pages)
I hope you will enjoy this set and have fun celebrating Christmas with your students! ☺
Clothes - Activity Pack for Mandarin Beginners
Activities included in this pack have been purposefully designed and selected for teaching and learning the Clothes unit. With assistance of the provided materials, students learn to identify and name different pieces of clothing, recognize different verb-noun collocations and to describe what people wear using familiar sentence structures.
This set includes:
• Worksheets with instructions
Note: for all included worksheets, students can write in either Chinese characters or Pinyin according to their levels.
• Answer keys
A set of Mix&Mach Cards
A set of worksheets for the Dress the Mannequin activity
40 pages in total.
Language points covered in this pack:
Vocabulary
Nouns
*Clothes
Core Vocabulary
裤子(kù zi) - pant
裙子(qún zi) - skirt
连衣裙(lián yī qún) - dress
校服(xiào fú) - uniform
T恤(tì xù) - t-shirt
毛衣(máo yī) - sweater
外套(wài tào) - jacket
手套(shǒu tào) - glove
帽子(mào zi) - hat
袜子(wà zi) - sock
围巾(wéi jīn) - scarf
鞋(xié) - shoe
Extension Vocabulary
*Colours
Verbs.
穿(chuān) - wear
戴(dài) - wear
Sentence Structure
Personal pronoun + 穿/戴+ Clothes
e.g. 他穿毛衣。
Check out this Handwriting Pack for the Sports Unit!
This pack includes:
2 pages of intensive writing worksheets.
3 sets of fun ‘Trace&Write’ worksheets, recommended for Mandarin beginners.
① ‘Trace&Write’ with colour illustrations
② ‘Trace&Write’ with uncoloured sports
③ ‘Trace&Write’ without pictures (students can draw their own illustrations)
(*Each set consists of 8 pages.)
Students should trace the words first before writing by themselves. They can then colour in the listed piece of clothing the way they like.
Vocabulary list:
运动,足球,篮球,排球,网球,板球,棒球,冰球,乒乓球,羽毛球,骑车,游泳,跑步,跳绳,滑雪,滑冰
Happy Handwriting!
Christmas Chant - Santa, Santa, What Do You See?
Students learn a chant, which is the Chinese equivalent of Santa, Santa What Do You See?, to help them practise the relevant language. After learning the chant, use this collection of worksheets to drill key vocabulary and relevant sentence structures with your class/children.
This collection consists of 11 creatively designed activities, ranging from matching activity to make a Santa, Santa, What Do You See? wheel activity.
If you like this activity, click the link to check out the Ultimate Christmas Activity Pack (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-ultimate-activity-pack-for-mandarin-beginners-12425149). This collection of worksheets is excluded from the activity pack.