ABC USD Foreign Language Assistance Program
5 – Step Communicative Lesson Plan
Example
Date:
Wednesday, 10/28/09
Level: Novice
Text:
pp.
Unit Title: 太吵了
Story
Book
Objective:
- Students will be able to speak sentences using the new phrases and new vocabularies: 安静，白
天，晚上 and 2 vocabularies: 買，頭,
- Students will be able to write these 8 vocabularies in Chinese: 安, 静，白,天，晚, 上 買，頭
Materials Needed: Story book, Projector, flashcards, markers, and pictures.
B. Steps/Plan
Teacher will be:
Students will be:
Setting the Stage:
Brainstorming on the shown PPT, flash cards, and
 Story book, Showing PPT, flash Cards and
pictures.
pictures
Minutes: 5
Comprehensible Input:
- Use pictures, props, realias, and TPRS to teach
new vocabularies : 安, 静，白,天，晚, 上 買，
and how to use measure words: 頭，隻，塊
- Read the story to the students using TPR and
gestures to help students understand the 5
animals doing day and night..
Guided Practice:
 Using flash cards to have students make
sentences with new vocabularies: 安, 静，白
,天，晚, 上 買，頭
 Playing quick fingers.
Students will say short sentences applying new
vocabularies and sentence patterns.
E.g.
 上課了，請安静。（PPT-pictures）
 王老先生買了一頭牛（show the picture- Mr.
Wang bought a caw）
 牛白天叫。(Imitating the sound of caw.
 這隻牛白天叫，晚上也叫。（Show pictures of
daytime and evening and ask question about
caw’s sound）.
Minutes: 20
 Students will be able to identify new
vocabularies: 安, 静，白,天，晚, 上 買，頭
 Students will be able to say sentences
using the learned sentence patterns
上課了，請安静.。
王老先生買了一頭牛。
牛白天叫。
這隻牛白天叫，晚上也叫。
Minutes: 10
1
UCLA Language Materials Project
2
Independent Practice:
Have students play “Q/A” using flash cards in
groups.
Worksheet: Matching.
Evaluation/Assessment/Closure:
 Checking for comprehension during each
activity.
 Have students retell the story with their
shoulder partners.
Based on the pictures of story book, students
will be able to say the following sentences.
 上課了，請安静.。
 王老先生買了一頭牛。
 牛白天叫。
 這隻牛白天叫，晚上也叫
Minutes:10
Students will retell the story with their shoulder
partners.
Minutes:5
C. National Standards:
 Communication : Interpersonnel, interpretive, presentational
 Comparions : Chinese measure words 頭，隻 vs American terms.
 Communities：Students will share what they have learned with their peers during recess time
as well as with their family after school.
D. Language Arts (Explain in detail):
Listening: teacher’ input, video tape, CD, peer practicing
Speaking: playing hot pencil, playing bingo, practicing dialogue with partners
Reading: playing Quick Finger, reading flash cards, reading PPT
Writing: practicing new words on writing board or worksheet
E. Language Development (Explain in detail): listening/reading comprehension, speaking, word
analysis, reading fluency
 Students will be able to use Chinese measure words 頭，隻
宀 ), 静（青），白 （白）, 天（人），晚（日）, 上
Introducing the radical of new vocabulary：安(
（ 一 ），買（貝 ），頭 (頁)。
http://usa.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=radicals。
http://usa.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=chardict&cdcanoce=0
&cdqchi=上
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