Lesson Plan(Grade 4)
Lesson title:
Countries
Step 1—Desired Results
Lesson goals
Students will be able to listen and speak twelve countries in Chinese, express the countries they want to go most, and
read the Chinese characters with Pinyin of the countries.
Essential Questions
How to express different countries in Chinese?
Lesson Objectives
Students will be able to recognize twelve words in Chinese: U.S.A., China, Russia, U.K., France, Germany, Japan,
South Korea, Mexico, Canada, Italy, Australia.
Students will be able to make a conversation in Chinese: Where do you want to go most? I want to go to …… most.
Step 2—Assessment Evidence
Performance task —Teacher will say or empower students to say the names of countries to ask students to find them
on map, and point to countries to ask students to say the names.
Performance criteria —Students can find the right countries and say the countries in Chinese correctly.
Step 3—Learning Plan
Materials needed
the pictures of twelve countries’ flags
the pictures with different countries’ typical things on
the cards with Chinese characters and Pinyin of the twelve countries’ names
a map of the world
Learning activities
Warm up/Activator: (5 minutes)
Play the game of “Simon says” to review the words of body parts.
Introduction to Lesson: (3 minutes)
Show students a map of the world to introduce the seven continents and show them the areas where the twelve
countries are.
Guided Practice: (30 minutes)
Teacher will show students pictures of flags one by one to introduce the new vocabulary, when introduce each country,
teacher can review the colors with students together and ask a student to find this country on the map. After learned six
words, Teacher will say Chinese and ask students to point to the correct flag, then teacher will point to the flag to ask
students to speak Chinese. Use the same way to teach the other six words. When all the twelve words have been
learned, teacher will point to the map to help students to review the words again and empower students to speak words
or point to the map to practice.
When students get familiar with the pronunciation, teacher will start to show the cards to introduce the characters with
Pinyin. Then students need to match the flags and the cards, then they can stick the cards onto the map at the right
place.
Teacher will teach the two sentences to make a conversation, then students need to ask the persons who sit beside to
practice the sentences.
Teacher will show some pictures with different countries’ typical things on to ask students to guess which country it is.
Independent Practice: (15 minutes)
Students will make a tally by themselves, choose at least six countries to write on their note book, and then go around
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classroom to ask at least fifteen classmates which country they want to go most, there will be some volunteers to report
their results, then we can find out which is the most popular country that most people want to go in their class.
Review/Discuss/Clarify: (4 minutes)
Students can write some countries in Pinyin and draw the typical things from this country and share with each other.
Summarizer/Closure: (3 minutes)
Organize all the countries according to different continents.
Step 4—Reflection
Students learned countries in Chinese fast, because most of the names end with “guo”, they also enjoyed guess the
country when I show them some pictures with typical things on or give them hint by telling them the colors of the flag in
Chinese. They can speak most of the countries in Chinese now when I point the country on the map, they also enjoyed
to practice them when they have lunch in cafeteria where hangs some different flags.
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