Chinese Characters - AT
Students were asked to demonstrate their knowledge of the stroke order of a Chinese character and write the Pinyin and English meaning. Students were also asked to write numbers 1 to 10 in Chinese characters and draw a picture to demonstrate understanding …
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Self Introduction - AT - Chinese
Students had learnt the language to enable them to write a basic self-introduction. In this task, students were asked to prepare a self-introduction in Pinyin (with tonal marks) demonstrating their learning. This activity took place in class with no additional …
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Self-introduction (Audio) - AT
Students were asked to deliver a short speech about themselves and their family. Students were asked two questions by the teacher at the end of the speech.
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Creating a dictionary - AT
Students were asked to create a personal dictionary to help them learn and remember Chinese for an upcoming assignment. Students could include Chinese that they wanted to learn or revise such as numbers, greetings, colours, family members, tones and age. …
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Reflection on constructing sentences - AT
Students had completed a unit on describing clothes and constructing sentences using appropriates adjectives and verbs. Students were asked to reflect on and discuss how to construct sentences describing clothes using appropriate verbs, vocabulary and …
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Reading Chinese characters - AT
Students were asked to read Chinese characters and translate them to tell the time and also demonstrate understanding of characters for different forms of transport.
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Letter to a friend - AT
Students had learnt how to talk about their own family and construct short, informative texts. In this task, students were asked to write a short letter about their family to an imaginary penfriend. They were to include names, ages and occupations.
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Part time work - AT
The role play took place at the end of a unit on part time work. Students learned vocabulary, expression, grammar and idioms related to the theme of the unit. Students discussed differences in cultural attitudes in Australia and China towards having a …
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Script of a conversation on part time work - AT
Students were asked to write in Chinese characters the script of a conversation about part time work.
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Writing task - AT
Students were asked to write a semi-formal email to a friend using Chinese characters, on how they felt about not having a smart phone, why they feel they should have one and how they would use it.
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Writing task – weather forecast
Students were asked to write in Chinese characters about the weather forecast in a city of their choice.
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What do you like to watch? - AT
Students were asked to discuss what TV programs they liked to watch. This was a formative task after completing a module of work.
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Reflection on learning Chinese - AT
Students were asked to respond in English to unscripted questions on learning Chinese.
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At the doctor’s - AT
Students had worked on a unit on health where they learnt the vocabulary and expressions to use to explain symptoms and remedies for ailments. Students were asked to create and then enact a role-play between a patient and doctor at the doctor’s surgery. …
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Interview: Mobile phones at the table - AT
The interview took place at the end of a unit on eating etiquette in China. Students discussed (in English and Chinese) the cultural practices related to sharing a meal with family and friends in China and the similarities and differences between Australia …
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Clap the number of characters - AT
Students were learning the names of animals in Japanese, the pronunciation of each word and the associated hiragana. Students were asked to clap the number of characters in each word whilst pronouncing each word and reinforcing their understanding of …
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Who am I? - AT
Students were asked to play the game Who am I? in Japanese. Students listened to and read on the screen, key word clues relating to numbers and animal call sounds to work out which animal was the answer to the question.
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Parts of the body -AT
Students had completed a unit of work on body parts and body part kanji. They completed a series of oral, aural and written activities to provide evidence of learning.
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Kanji writing and drawing activity - AT
Students had been learning about body parts in Japanese and corresponding kanji characters. They were asked to write the kanji character attempting to use stroke order and draw the body part creating a mnemonic device. Scaffolding was provided with an …
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Matching numbers to Japanese kanji - AT
Students were asked to sing a numbers song while completing a written activity matching numbers to the correct kanji in their workbooks.
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