Lesson Plan
TCLP teacher’s name: Li Xiulan
Grade level:
Grade 5 Language level: Beginners
Lesson title:
Chinese Spring Festival
Homework:
Make a greeting card
Feedback
Chinese Spring Festival is the opportunity to introduce Chinese history, customs,
festivals, paper-cutting and special food to the teachers and students. They are very
interested in them. Through watching PPT about the festival, students got general ideas
about the Spring Festival and became excited and eager to learn words and sentences
related to it. Paper cutting is new and fun to them. Writing thank you cards to teachers
both in English and Chinese is a good way to practice writing Chinese as well as to
express their thanks.
Step 1—Desired Results
Lesson goals
To develop their abilities of Chinese listening, speaking and reading, especially
listening and speaking, paying special attention to the tones
I.Students get to know more about Chinese Spring Festival and customs.
II. Students can speak out some greeting sentences and some words related to Chinese
Spring Festival
III. Learn to do Chinese paper cutting and write thank you cards in Chinese.
IV. Learn to respect different cultures
Essential Questions
I. Do you know Chinese people have two new years?
II. What’s the Chinese Spring Festival?
III. How do Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival?
Lesson Objectives
Students will be able to:
I.know more about Chinese Spring Festival
II. speak out some greeting sentences and some words related to Chinese Spring
Festival
III. do Chinese paper cutting
IV. write thank you cards in Chinese
V. sing the Chinese song “Happy New Year”
Step 2—Assessment Evidence
Performance task — Match the Chinese words with pictures, write thank you cards in
Chinese and do paper cutting
Performance criteria:
Make dialogues and do the role play fluently and sing the Chinese song freely
Step 3—Learning Plan
Materials needed
Lanterns, Chinese calendar, pictures, cards, color paper, scissors and markers
Learning procedures
I.Greeting and warming up by singing the Chinese song “Happy New Year ”
II.Show Chinese calendar and tell the students the date of Chinese Spring Festival
III. Play PPT about Chinese New Year
IV.Learn the words related to the festival 春节(Spring Festival), 春联 (couplet)， 饺
子 (dumpling)，红包(red envelope)，年夜饭（Spring Festival Eve Dinner），福
（good luck）羊年（year of sheep）
presenting real objects to them “realia”
A. Ask the students to read the words by themselves according to pinyin
B. Read after the teacher for several times, paying attention to each student’s
pronunciation
C. Ask some students to come to the front and read the words individually
D. Match the words with pictures
III. Learn the sentences 新年好（Happy New Year），恭喜恭喜（congratulations）
IV. Role play: Ask the students to greet each other
V. Do Chinese paper cutting and write thank you cards
VI. Practice the Chinese song Happy New Year
Step 4—Reflection
Group work:
1.Doing some match games
Each group has pictures and cards of words. Ask the students to match them and see
which group will be the fastest.
2.Having a dialogue
Greet each other about Chinese Spring Festival