Unit 10 动动更健康! dòng dòng gèng jiàn kāng (Activity Brings a Healthier Life!)
3. Trip to the countryside 下乡 xià xiāng
Prior Knowledge: Activity vocabulary from previous units
Framework Objectives
O4.3 Listen for sounds,
rhythm and rhyme
IU 4.4 Learn about
different ways of
travelling to the
country/countries
LLS Ask for clarification
or repetition
Support
Use word cards and props
more extensively
Extension
Children recall vocabulary
by themselves with some
prompts in English too add
richness to their story.
Children work without any
prompts in particular cards
or resources that provide
the pin-yin
Main
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Pronunciation of poem. Look at different translations and discuss which
they children prefer and why they are different. Look at the different sounds
within the poem and the rhythm of it

Talk about day trips out of the city or away from home. Where do the
children go? Add some vocabulary around possible day trips using the
ones offered by the children - examples include beach / countryside /farm:
海滩 hǎi tān (beach)
乡村 xiāng cūn (countryside)
农场 nóng chǎng (farm)

Create sentences and then conversations using the activity vocabulary and
the locations and as much vocabulary as you can from previous units – see
teaching note . Work with as complex or simple vocabulary as you think the
children need too to make sufficient and reasonable progress. Ways of
achieving this include
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Using photos of places and/or children to create a story board
Giving the children some props they must use in their story
Asking a child to relate a trip put that they have taken in English and then
dividing it up create a Chinese version
Ask a partner school in China to relate simply a trip out and use that as the
basis for sentence construction
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Once stories have been created using one of more ways, vary the story by
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Changing the children involved. Start again with the same pictures /
flashcards to create a new story that is similar but not identical. Add mimes
and hold up flashcards at the right time.
Changing the children involved again. Ask questions that the children need
to respond to about the story
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Translate the conversations word by word literally to show how sentences
are constructed in Chinese. Then alter certain aspects / words within the
story and replay the conversation with the children.
ICT opportunities
(levels of difficulty 1=
easier, 3= more
complex)
Photos of places and / or
children to create
storyboard around trips
away (2)
Access to BBC clip given
below or equivalent (2)
Unit 10 动动更健康! dòng dòng gèng jiàn kāng (Activity Brings a Healthier Life!)
3. Trip to the countryside 下乡 xià xiāng
Throughout the week:
Repeat some sentence within the story. Ask the children
to repeat the sentence changing some part of the
sentence.
Give the children a word and they create sentences with
that word.
Main Follow up Activities
Repeat some of the stories and the poem in front of a
friendly audience. If native speakers or older children
learning Chinese, ask these people to ask questions
about the story that the children have to respond to.
Read the stories using the pinyin. Notice with the children
which words are not well represented phonetically by the
pinyin. Ensure the children pronounce these correctly.
Encourage the children to ask for the sentences within the
stories to be repeated and the sentence construction
clarified (LLS)
ICT Follow up Activities
Play the BBC video on a trip into the countryside or
some other video you have source that is suitable
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/6258.html
If you watch the above video do some research on
the Great Wall of China referring to the work done
in unit 9 on Chinese history and work out when it
was built. Add a ribbon to the history rope created
in Unit 9 on the Tang Dynasty. Note many tourists
will visit the Great Wall when travelling to China.
Video cast the best stories using props, mimes and
picture cards and add to the class language
leaning blog (2).
Learning Outcomes
Children
• understand and work with the implications of how literal translation shows how
different Chinese is
• improve their ability to create sentences
• read pin-yin whilst understanding its phonetic weaknesses
National Curriculum Links
Primary Framework for Literacy:
Teaching Tips
• If available use software to help build the sentences as an alternative. If not use a word
magnet application online or the interactive whiteboard
Resources
Picture cards as appropriate
Props to help story telling
Pin-yin cards as appropriate
• Make this a revision session using as much vocabulary as possible from other previous
units: unit 1 language for family / Unit 2 for numbers of miles Unit 3 for activities and
animals / Unit 5 for things to take /Unit 6 for food and drink /Unit 7 for weather and forms
of transport and days /Unit 8 for toys and money
• Gradually built up the children’s ability to create their own conversations. This must be by
incrementally showing them how much vocabulary they have learnt that is relevant to
their lives.
Strand 1 Speaking: Y4 - Use and reflect on some ground rules for sustaining
talk and interactions
Strand 1 Speaking; Y3 – choose and prepare poems for performance,
identifying appropriate expression, tone volume and use of voices and other
sounds
ICT Resources
Sentence creation software if available
Or pinyin to place on interactive whiteboard
Video-cast equipment and application
Unit 10 动动更健康! dòng dòng gèng jiàn kāng (Activity Brings a Healthier Life!)
3. Trip to the countryside 下乡 xià xiāng
老师的词汇
Teacher Language
学生的词汇
Children’s Language
Unit 10 动动更健康! dòng dòng gèng jiàn kāng (Activity Brings a Healthier Life!)
3. Trip to the countryside 下乡 xià xiāng
Child 1
我喜欢去农场。
wǒ xǐhuān qù nóng chǎng .
( I like to go to the farm.)
Child 2
你和谁去？
Nǐ hé shéi qù ？
(Who do you go with?)
– 我姐姐、我妈妈、我爷爷、奶奶和我的朋友
小宝。
Wǒ jiě jie 、wǒ mā ma 、wǒ yé ye 、nǎi nai hé
wǒ de péng yǒu Xiǎo Bǎo.
(My sister, my mother and my grandparents and
my friend Xiao Bao.)
你做什么？
Nǐ zuò shén me ？
(What do you do?)
你吃什么？
Nǐ chī shén me ？
(What do you eat?)
农场的苹果。
Nóng chǎng de píng guǒ.
(Apples from the farm.)
天气怎么样？
Tiān qì zěn me yàng ？
(What is the weather like?)
天气晴朗，风很大。
Tiān qì qíng lǎng，fēng hěn dà.
(It is sunny and windy.)
你带了什么？
Nǐ dài shén me ？
(What do you take with you?)
我的电话、帽子和墨镜。
Wǒ de diàn huà 、mào zǐ hé mò jìng.
My phone, hat and sunglasses.）