Chinese Course Outline
Primary School – once a week
Term/
Lesson
Number
Term 1
1
Lesson Objectives
Cultural and Intercultural
language Component
Activities/Tasks
Topic: Greetings
Objectives: Basic class instructions.
Different ways of greetings.
Cultural: People say hello
different ways to different
people.
1. line up to say hello to each
other in different ways.
2. Greeting song.
2
New Language: Ni hao! Nin hao! Ni men
hao! Ni hao ma?
Zai jian !
Intercultural: compare with
Maori language. ( Need their
teach to help.)
Topic: Greeting
Objectives: How to answer greetings.
Culture: Story about
Mamahuhu.
1. Greet each other in lines
and change partners.
2. watch dvd
Intercultural: Different order
of Chinese name.
1.Line up to ask name to
each other.
3. watch dvd of Hao Kit.
Language: Ni hao ma?
Hen hao.
Bu cuo.
Bu hao.
Mamahuhu.
3
Topic: names.
Objectives: how to ask and say your own
name.
Language: Ni jiao shenme mingzi? Wo
jiao……
2. Game: one kid cover eyes
and ask, another one answer
in strange voice. The kid with
eyes covered should guess
who he or she is.
3. watch dvd
4
Topic: name
Objectives: How to express different
narratives.
Culture: None
Watch dvd.
Culture: none
1. Role play: Suppose one
kid lost his book when
he walking, the other
catch up and give the
book back. One says
Xiexie ni! The other
answers Bu ke qi!
2. watch dvd.
1. Role play : Suppose they
are on a plane and it’s
crowded there and they
bump into each other.
2. watch dvd.
Language: Wo jiao……
Ni jiao……
Ta jiao……
5
Title:thanks
Objectives: how to express thanks
Language:
Xiexie ni!
Bu ke qi/Bu yong xie.
6
Title: apologize
Objectives: How to apologize.
Culture : none
Language:
Dui bu qi!
Mei guan xi!
Term 2
1
2
Topic: quiz
Objective: Go over what has been learnt
last term.
Language:
Ni hao! Nin hao ! Ni men hao !
Ni hao ma ?
Hen hao/bu cuo/bu hao/mamahuhu
Ni jiao shenme mingzi ?
Wo jiao......
Ni jiao......
Ta jiao......
Xie xie !
Bu ke qi !
Dui bu qi!
Mei guan xi!
Zai jian !
Topic: instructions
Objectives: Learn useful class instructions
Cuture : None
Different paper with
different English sentences .
Divide kids into several
groups and they get the
1.paper and do group work
to translate the sentence
into Chinese. The group that
first finishes wins.
Culture：Tell them about how
kids behavior in China’s
classes.
Simon says.
3
Language:
Shangke!
Qili!
Qing kan!
Qing ting!
Qing anjing!
Qingzuo!
Jushou!
Xiake!
Topic: number
Objectives: count the numbers from 1 to
10 and recognize the characters.
Intercultural:
Compare with Maori numbers.
Language: yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, qi, ba, jiu,
shi
4
5
Topic: number
Objectives: Learn to recognize Chinse
characters of number from 1 to 10.
Language: 一二三四五六七八九十
Topic: number from 11 to 100
Objectives: Learn to say 11 to 100
Culture：lucky,unlucky
numbers
Culture: compare with Maori
1 .Do number finger signs.
2. Chopsticks game: use
chopsticks to get lollies
within 10 seconds. The
others all count 1 to 10 in
Chinese.
3. watch dvd.
Fly swatter.
Bingo
Language: shiyi ( ten plus one)…ershi(two
tens)……yibai(one hundred).
6
7
8
9
Topic: age
Objectives: Learn how to ask age and
answer
Language:
Ni ji sui?
Wo …… sui.
Topic: age and zodiac
Objectives: say the age and know what
zodiac they have.
Language:
Wo …… sui.
Wo shu …….
Topic: zodiac
Objectives: animals
Language:
12 animals in Chinese and English
Title: Nationality
Objectives: How to ask and answer
nationalities.
Language:
Culture: it’s not impolite to ask Role play:
people about their age. And
Act like young kids, or adult
people respect the old.
or the old and let the other’s
guess the age.
Culture:
Chinese Zodiac story.
1. Paper cutting: draw their
own zodiac wheels.
2. watch dvd.
Culture: None
1. Do PowerPoint work.
2. watch dvd.
Intercultural:
How to say China in Chinese.
It’s Zhongguo, which means
middle country. Tell why.
1. say any other countries in
Chinese to let kids to guess
what country it is.
2. Tell their nationality in
Chinese if they don’t know.
10
11
Ni shi na guo ren?
Wo shi….guo ren.
Topic: family
Objectives: learn family members and
Chinese characters
Language:
baba, mama, gege, jiejie, didi, meimei 爸
爸， 妈妈， 哥哥， 姐姐， 弟弟， 妹
妹
Topic: family
Objectives: to express how many people in
your family and who they are. And how to
express measurement.
3. Draw the national flags.
Cutural:
1. In Chinese family people
don’t call name directly, to
show respect.
2. One child policy in China.
3. Little emperor. Little sun.
Fly swatter game.
Intercultural:
Compare the families between
China and New Zealand. And
probably teach them some
other family members.
To say to each other and
record the family member of
each other.
Culture: Chinese people have
different words for aunty and
uncle of mother’s side and
father’s side.
Culture: Chinese people have
different words for aunty
and uncle of mother’s side
and father’s side.
Intercultural:
Borrowed words from the
west.
1. watch the ppt. and say
the name of the food.
2. line up to say Wo
xihuan…… and get
pictures to paste and
colour.
3. watch dvd
Culture:
Introduce Spring Festival and
the food to eat.
1. Watch the ppt. and say
the names of the food.
2. Watch introduction
about Spring Festival.
3. Line up to get the
pictures.
4. watch dvd.
Each kid prepare their own
speech and I help. They are
allowed to put in more
sentences.
Language:
1. Wo jia you …… kou ren.
2. Wo jia you baba, mama, gege……
3. yige, liangge, sange……
Term 3
1
2
3
4
Topic: family
Objectives: more family members
Language:
Yeye, nainai, shushu, ayi,
Waigong, waipo, jiujiu, yima.
Topic: western food
Objectives: names of western food.
Language:
1. Hanbaobao, pisabing, shutiao, shupian,
qiaokeli, bingqiling, naixi, kekoukele
2. Wo xihuan chi……
3. Wo xihuan he……
Topic: Chinese food
Objectives: names of Chinese food.
Language:
1. mifan, miantiao, baozi, gulaorou,
mapodoufu, jiaozi, chunjuan, sumigeng
2. Wo yao……
Topic: Speech
Objectives: practice to prepare for speech
Language:
Nimenhao!
Wo jiao……
Jinnian …… sui.
Wo shu……
Wo shi Xinxilan ren.
Wo jia you……
Intercultural:
Compare with Maori New
Year Matariki.
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Wo xihuan chi……, he……
Xiexie! Zaijian!
Topic: Speech
Topic: Speech competition
Topic: culours
Objectives: some basic colours
Language:
Hongse, huangse, baise, herse, lanse, lvse,
zise, kafeise, fenhongse, huise
Topic:Sports
Objectives: Sports names
Language: qiu(球)：ball
Lanqiu, zuqiu, paiqiu, ganlanqiu, shuiqiu,
pingpangqiu, wangqiu, bangqiu, qugunqiu.
Topic: games
Objectives:
Youyong, paobu, ticao, huauchuan,
tiaoshui, tiaogao, qi zixingche
Topic: time
Objectives: how to express o’clock and
minute
2
Language: ban (半)，ke(刻)
Ji dian le? 几点了？
Topic: food
Objectives: making dumplings
1. Recognize the colour and
tell them quickly.
2. watch dvd.
Culture:
New Zealanders like
ganlanqiu.
1. imitate playing a game
and the others guess
what game it is.
2. watch dvd.
Culture: China’s bike kingdom.
1. imitate playing a game
and the others guess
what game it is.
2.
watch dvd.
1. Paper cutting and make
their own clock and
write down the time on
it
2. watch dvd.
When time goes to 2 o’clock
it’s not er but liang(两)。
Draw 2 time hands on their
clock. And write down the
question, then answer it
according to their own clock.
Culture:
Dumplings are the popular
food and also the festival food
for Spring Festival.
Topic: Quiz
Objectives: All that they have learnt.
Topic: paper cutting
Objective: double happiness
Language: xi( 喜，囍)
3
Culture:
The facial costume of Beijing
opera are different . Tell the
different meaning of different
colour.
Language:
Dian(点), fen(分)
Topic: time
Objectives: How to express a quarter and a
half.
Language: jiaozi. Kuaizi. Niurou
Term 4
1
1. Draw their names from a
hat and then do the speech.
2. Choose the better ones to
be in the competition.
Topic: paper cutting
Objectives: spring
Culture:
1. Chinese paper is an art in
China.
2. double happiness is used in
wedding and decorate the
rooms and even the cars.
Culture:
Spring festival people do
Kids learn how to wrap
dumplings.
Group work and to see
which group finishes the
first.
Do paper cutting and paste
into their book or window or
take home.
1. Do paper cutting and
paste into their book or
Language: seasons
Chun, xia, qiu, dong
春夏秋冬
4
5
6
7
8
paper cutting and paste it on
the window.
Topic: characters and questions
Objectives: to recognize more characters
and learn more questions for conversation.
Language: 我， 你， 他， 她，它， 们，
好， 中， 国。
And 3 questions they would like to ask. I
help them.
Topic: character and questions
Culture: watch vedio Wild
Objectives: YCT characters.
China.
Language: 大， 小， 多， 少
And 3 questions they would like to ask.
Topic: characters about animals
Objectives: YCT characters.
Culture: watch cartoon
Tadpoles finding their mom.
Language: 鱼， 鸡， 蛙， 虾
Topic: characters about animals
Objectives: YCT characters.
Culture: watch cartoon
Single-log bridge.
Language: 熊猫， 牛， 虎， 兔， 猫，
老鼠，猴
Topic: Farewell and taiji
Culture: Taiji is from Kongfu
but now for people to
exercise.
window or take home.
2. 4 kids holding a piece of
paper with different
character on and I call
the season, they run to it
to see if they all get it.
Fly swatters.
1. Fly swatters.
2. answer questions from
video.
Answer questions.
1. What’s the story about?
2. How many animals
there? Name them.
Name all the animals.