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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!
Use this worksheet to teach/learn numbers in Mandarin Chinese!♥
Click the below link to view the complete activity pack for the NUMBERS unit with more activities provided.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/numbers-activity-pack-mandarin-chinese-12271018
Numbers 1-10
1. Chinese characters tracing and colouring worksheet
2. Caterpillar Activity Worksheet
3. Revision Worksheet (Mix and Match)
4. Exercise Worksheet (Circle the right number)
5. Chinese characters practice worksheets
6. Count, write down numbers and colour
7. Word Search Worksheet (Pinyin)
Students learn about the Mid-Autumn Festival and the legends related to this festival.
Students learn to say ‘Happy Mid-Autumn Festival’ in Chinese.
Students colour in the beautiful Moon Goddess - Chang’e.
Students can then draw the cute Jade Rabbit to keep the Moon Goddess accompany. (Note: For younger children, teachers might need to demonstrate drawing a bunny on the board. Students can draw on their worksheet along with the teacher. This can be an optional activity for young learners.)
Please see the cover image as a sample.
Students need to interview at least 6 people from their class and record their birthdays in the below table. They need to ask and answer the questions in Mandarin Chinese.
**Simple and fun activity **
Video
Watch the video introducing Days of the week in Mandarin Chinese, and then have students work on worksheet.
Worksheet
Students need to cut out the 7 days and paste them in the right order.
Play around with the 7 days a bit before pasting them on. The teacher (or ask a student) to call out the 7 days of the week randomly and ask students to arrange their words according to the order they hear.
Check out this for more relevant activities:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/seven-days-of-the-week-word-order-worksheet-mandarin-chinese-11935142
Seven Days of the Week
Two word order activities are included.
Video
Watch the video introducing Days of the week in Mandarin Chinese, and then have students work on worksheet.
Worksheet
Students need to cut out the 7 days and paste them in the right order.
Play around with the 7 days a bit before pasting them on. The teacher (or ask a student) to call out the 7 days of the week randomly and ask students to arrange their words according to the order they hear.
Learn to write ‘妈妈,我爱你’ in characters or Pinyin( mā mā,wǒ ài nǐ).
Two types or worksheets included:
Mother’s Day Card
Mother’s Day Postcard (pint on both sides)
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. :)