2009 Chinese IB Culture Project and Presentation Power Point and Oral Presentation On Voice thread.com 1. Topic option 1: research on a city from China, Hong Kong or Taiwan Information includes a map, location, population, famous site, weather, any useful tourist information, or your own experiences. Site all sources. 2. Topic Option 2: research on Chinese custom, holidays or food. Examples: Chinese tea drinking, Chinese New Year, or Dim Sum. 3. Make a Power Point with 3- 5 slides. 4. All information needs to be in Chinese Character, presentation in Chinese. You can use an online translator to help you, however, students are encouraged to write down their draft and have instructor check the writing and pronunciation of the words. 5. Upload your Power Point to create a Voicethread project by using your Voicethread account. Record your oral presentation to your PPT. The length of your voice time: 2-3 minutes. 6. Send your voicethread http//: address to the class HW email -- ivcchi1b@gmail.com 7. Due Date: Oct 14, 2009 Examples of city 北京 上海 beijing shanghai 重慶 chongqing 南京 nanjing 杭州 西安 hangzhou xian 昆明 香港 kunming xianggang 蘇州 廣州 成都 suzhou guangzhou chengdu 洛陽 臺北 luoyang taibei 深圳 拉薩 shenzhen lasa 天津 tianjin 桂林 guilin 開封 kaifeng 哈爾濱 haerbing 青島 qingdao 武漢 wuhao 敦煌 dunhuang 瀋陽 珠海 shengyang Zhuhai Evaluation: 50% on Power point and 50% on Oral Presentation 1. Information needs to be in Characters, correctness of characters and sentence structures. 2. Good arrangement of your ppt. and quality of the project / picture/ layout /design / information / resource 3. The oral presentation part is Understandable, correctness of pronunciation. 4. Useful websitea. MDBG Chinese-English http://usa.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=translate b. Online Reading and listening, Character with pinyin http://ecl.iflytek.com/ListenToThis/#