Lesson Plan
Year: TY
Student number: 12 Girls, 12 boys
Lesson: Chinese Language and Culture, Session 11
Class time: 50 Minutes
Date: 27/11/2013
The learning intention
Learn how to prepare a simple Chinese meal.
Experience Chinese food and Social.
Learn about Chinese table manners. Learn more Chinese
characters of food and good wishes.
Practice speaking simple Chinese.
Sing a Chinese song.
Use previously learned skills.
Teamwork.
Previous learning topics
Chinese cuisine.
How to use chopsticks.
Student will have developed their
skills in
Making Chinese lanterns.
Making flash cards.
Learning and writing Chinese characters of food and
drink.
They will use these resources
A power point guide incorporating slide show from
Chinese Food and Tea by Confucius Institute.
Utensils and ingredients for making fried rice and tea.
Chopsticks, bowls and cups.
Fortune cookies and panda biscuits.
Equipment for making Chinese lanterns and flash cards.
Placemats made in previous Chinese paper cutting
lesson.
Video camera for recording.
They will have been introduced to
new contents
What is needed to make fried rice
Different types of Chinese tea leaves
Chinese table manners.
Chinese Characters on food and drink and good wishes.
Student will be asked to display
their understanding through
the following assignments
Cooking the fried rice.
Make Pu erh tea.
Make flashcards to recap and teach new characters.
Make Chinese lanterns to decorate the tables.
All sit together to eat and socialise
Use chopsticks, dos’ and don’ts’.
Table manners (wait till everyone is ready before you
eat!).
Talk to each other in simple Chinese.
Sing Chinese song for entertainment.
Contained in syllabus statement
Culture - Chinese Food and Tea.
Language - Happy Chinese Unit 3 Lesson 7 to 9
Stages of the lesson and methods
to be used
Use power point slides to recap on previous learning and
what the lessons aim to achieve.
Explain the activities.
Divide class into six groups as follows:
1. Cooking group.
2. Tea making group.
3. Lantern making and table setting group.
4. Flash cards making group.
5. Entertaining group.
6. Film group.
Distribute instruction cards to each group leader.
Allow all groups to work.
Set table and serve fried rice, tea, fortune cookies and
panda biscuits.
All sit down to a meal.
Talk on table manners and chopsticks etiquette.
Recap learned characters on food and drink.
Learn new characters on good wishes.
Sing a Chinese song.
Cleanup.
Preparation time
2 hours:
Prepare power point slides.
Write Instruction Cards.
Assign group leaders according to his/her strength.
Gather equipment and resources.
Cook some white rice and fried rice.
Resources
Power point slides.
Instruction cards.
Cooking utensils, wok.
Electric hob from Science lab.
Rice, sauces, egg, pea, onion, garlic, oil.
Pu erh tea leaves.
Fortune cookies and panda biscuits.
Bowls, cups, chopsticks, teapot, trays.
Placemats.
Cards, markers, scissors, staplers.
Video camera, Go Pro
Laptop, projector.
Review
Power point slides: Useful.
Cooking group: Good job!
Tea group: Good but remember to provide a strainer for
the tea leaves
Flash cards group: Great job and they learned some new
characters.
Table setting group: Good job but need to make sure
there are enough settings for everyone. Also use paper
bowls instead of china.
Entertaining group: Should sing in rounds as instructed!
Go Pro did not work.
Projector needs new cable!
Student feedbacks
Very enjoyable and fun.
Love the activities.
Learn a lot about Chinese food culture and table
manners.
Learn a lot through the activities.
Love the tea.
Love the food.
Love the teamwork.
Put knowledge into action.
Real experience.
Flash cards help learning new vocabulary.
Real ‘TY’ way of learning.