Daily Lesson Planning
Content: Foreign Language (Chinese)
Teacher: Mrs. Dewhirst
Level: 1A/1B
Date: 11/19, 11/25, 11/27, 11/29
Class: 6G/Rm 162/Rm 164/Rm 27/7G
Unit: IV
Lesson 1: My family
Lesson 2: There are 5 people in my family.
Lesson 3: I have one elder brother.
Lesson 4. My elder sister is a nurse.
Standards:
1.5 Exchange information and knowledge
2.3 Obtain information and knowledge
4.1 Use appropriate expressions and gestures in interactions such greeting, farewells, school routines and
other daily activities
3.5 write lists and short notes
4.4 Identify distinctive cultural products from the target culture (origami)
5.1 Ask and answer questions regarding similar/different writing system in the target language
5.2 Give examples of ways in which the target language differs from/is similar to English
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to
1. name the family members
2. ask/answer the questions about the family
3. identify and write the characters: family, the names of family members
3. ask/answer the question about the occupation of family members
4. fold origami: house/fish/dog
5. use the measure word to count the people
6. work with peers cooperatively
Assessment:
1. Individual product: my family tree/ a paragraph to introduce my family
2. Pair product: asking/answering the questions about the family/occupation
3. Whole class investigation: our parents’ occupation
4. Individual product: characters
5. Individual product: origami: a fish/dog family
6. Sentences: (Ticket to Go)
Areas of Interaction:
Approaches to Learning: Using organizing, study buddies, self-assessment, notes taking/collecting skills
Homo Faber: focus on the products of human creativity
SIP:
1. Students will have multiple and varied opportunities to understand and to use new vocabulary
correctly in daily reading and writing
2. Students will observe teacher modeling, experience guided collaborative instruction, and practice
independent analysis and identification of main ideas and supporting details, and use them as a basis for
interpretation.
Instruction Block:
Activator: 11/19: Silent work: Dictionary: how do you call the following people in Chinese:
11/25: Silent work: Mrs. Dewhirst has the following people in her family. Who are they?
11/27: Silent work: Tom has the following people in his family. Could you draw his family tree?
11/29: Silent work: how do you call the occupations in Chinese? (use your dictionary)
Mini Lesson:
11/19
1.Teacher leads the students to read the today’s new words by group/teams/individuals
2. Teacher introduces the character: family
3. Teacher directed game: who is this person?
4. Teacher shows the steps to make an origami--- paper house
11/25
1. Teacher leads the whole class to make a family tree for Mrs. Dewhirst
2. Teacher introduces the key words of today’s lesson: have/ don’t have, then leads the whole class to
make a paragraph to introduce my family.
3. Teacher shows the steps to make an origami--- fish
11/27
1. Teacher leads the whole class to review the family tree of Tom (activator), and review the names of
the second relatives.
2. Teacher introduces the characters: names of the family members
3. Teacher shows the steps to make an origami--- dog
11/29
1.Teacher leads the students to read the today’s new words (occupations) by group/teams/individuals
2. Teacher introduces the sentence structures used to ask and answer the questions about the family’s
occupations.
3. Teacher directed game: who is this person’s occupation?
4. Teacher shows the learned characters on TV and asks students to give their meanings
Learning Activity
11/19
1. Individual work: practice the new character
2. Individual work: make an origami with the new character on it
3. Individual work: worksheet: review the learned characters
11/25
1. Individual work: draw a family tree, and follow the pattern given by the teacher to write a paragraph
to introduce my family
2. Individual work: origami: a fish family and a paragraph to introduce this family
3. Pair work: Create a skit and act it out (Do you have …..?)
11/27
1. Individual work: practice the new characters (the names of family members)
2. Individual work: make an origami—a dog family with the labels of Chinese characters
3. Individual work: worksheet: 1. Identify the learned characters 2. Sentences: use have/don’t have to
11/29
1. Pair work: practice the new sentences used to ask and answer the questions about the occupations
2. Individual work: a paragraph to introduce the occupations of my family members
3. Team work: special investigation and report/introduce the occupations of our parents
Homework: 11/19: practice the new character
11/25: teach others to fold an origami and label it with Chinese character
11/27: make flashcards for today’s new characters
11/29: a family tree with a paragraph for introducing the occupations of family members
Wrap up activity: ticket to go
11/19: write the new character 5 times
11/25: the key words of today’s lesson
11/27: what is on the TV
11/29: list 5 occupations
Differentiated Instruction: Chalkboard, posters, OH, oral questions, paired or group work, gestures,
signals, objects,
Materials: Nihao 1& 2 Textbook, dictionaries, overhead projector, transparencies, markers, worksheets,
flashcards, backpack, organizer: family tree, TV, laptop, pictures of occupation, the tools used by some
occupations