Creativity in the teaching of Chinese: Developing

learning games and fun classroom activities

By Sheautian Tan & I-Han Huang

17 May 2013

10th Annual Chinese Conference

IOE Confucius Institute for Schools 1

10TH ANNUAL CHINESE

CONFERENCE (2013)

Creativity in the teaching of Chinese:

Developing learning games and fun classroom

activities

Presented by

Sheautian Tan (NQT, Cornwallis Academy)陈筱恬 http://www.sheautian.com/

I-Han Huang (IOE PGCE) 黄意涵 http://ihanlaoshi.blogspot.co.uk/

CONTENT

Games

Games

Games

…

And …

GAMES!!!!

POWERPOINT

NON-ELECTRONIC

DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE

WEBSITE

RAP

CNY Activities

Explanation of each

game/activities has been

written. They are at the

notes on each slides.

POWERPOINT

běi jīng 北 京

Created by Sheautian Tan

上海 Created

by Sh

eautian

Tan

Where is Angry Bird?

1. 1st Jan

5. 14th Feb

9. 20th Apr

12. 11th Nov

10. 8th Aug

2. 16th Mar

7. 16th Jun

4. 25th Dec

8. 7th Jul

11. 23rd Oct

3. 5th Sept

6. 29th May

Creativity in the teaching of Chinese: Developing

learning games and fun classroom activities

By Sheautian Tan & I-Han Huang

17 May 2013

10th Annual Chinese Conference

IOE Confucius Institute for Schools 2

5 4 3

2 4 -1

-2 - 3 3

-3

6

-2 1. Nov 11th

5. Mar 20th is mom’s

birthday

2. Dad’s birthday.

4. My birthday is July 10th.

3. Panda’s birthday

is Nov 3rd.

6. Your birthday is Jan. 31st.

12. Older sister’s

birthday is Feb 21st.

10. May 16th.

7. Her birthday is 27th July.

8. 9th Sept. is panda’s

birthday.

11. Dec. 29th.

9. Dad’s birthday

is Jan 12th.

★ Random Numbers ★

一月 十二日

十一月 十一日

六月 十七日

七月 九日

十二月 三十日

五月 三十一日

八月 二十六日

九月 五日

二月 十四日

Noughts & Crosses

L, R, S, W

NON-ELECTRONIC

CHARADE

爸爸 妈妈 哥哥 姐姐 弟弟 妹妹 有 没有

bà ba

mā ma

gē ge

jiě jie

dì di

mèi mei

yǒu

méi yǒu

Father

Mother

Older brother

Older sister

Younger bro.

Younger sis.

Have

Don’t have

SPEAK WITHOUT SHOWING YOUR TEETH!

爸爸 妈妈 哥哥 姐姐 弟弟 妹妹 有

没有

bà ba

mā ma

gē ge

jiě jie

dì di

mèi mei

yǒu

méi yǒu

Father

Mother

Older brother

Older sister

Younger bro.

Younger sis.

Have

Don’t have

Creativity in the teaching of Chinese: Developing

learning games and fun classroom activities

By Sheautian Tan & I-Han Huang

17 May 2013

10th Annual Chinese Conference

IOE Confucius Institute for Schools 3

Miss, I can read your Miss, I can read your mind!

爸爸 妈妈 哥哥 姐姐 弟弟 妹妹 有 没有

bà ba

mā ma

gē ge

jiě jie

dì di

mèi mei

yǒu

méi yǒu

Father

Mother

Older brother

Older sister

Younger bro.

Younger sis.

Have

Don’t have

爸爸 妈妈 哥哥 姐姐 弟弟 妹妹 有

没有

bà ba

mā ma

gē ge

jiě jie

dì di

mèi mei

yǒu

méi yǒu

Father

Mother

Older brother

Older sister

Younger bro.

Younger sis.

Have

Don’t have

BANG!

CHARACTERS CHARACTERS RELAY

1 1

1 1

9 9

9 9

T

WHO READ THE WHO READ THE LAST ONE?!

读：Read out the paragraph with a partner in turns. You can read 1 ~ 5 characters each time. The person who reads out the last character loses!!!

我喜欢吃麦当劳，因为我觉得麦当劳比肯德基好吃。但是(dàn shì; but)弟弟觉得肯德基比麦当劳好吃。妈妈觉得火鸡比比萨好吃。爸爸不喜欢吃薯条，他觉得薯条比炸鱼难吃。

shuí zuì kuài shuí zuì kuài

谁最快? WHO IS THE

FASTEST?

chú fā

出发 START dào dá

到达 ARRIVE

qián jìn liǎng bù

前进两步 2 STEPS

FORWARD

zàn tíng yì jú

暂停一局SKIP ONE THROW

hòu tuì liǎng bù

后退两步 2 STEPS

BACKWARD

MONOPOLY

Creativity in the teaching of Chinese: Developing

learning games and fun classroom activities

By Sheautian Tan & I-Han Huang

17 May 2013

10th Annual Chinese Conference

IOE Confucius Institute for Schools 4

1 2

3

BINGO! ALARM TALK ALARM TALK

Team A, Team B and Team C

). No

it.

Team A, Team B and Team C

Teacher will pick one student to set a time (between 30s and 2mins). No

ones should know the time he/she set, but only teacher.

Then, after teacher press start on the timer, this student need to hold

the toy and say sentence (sentence need to be based on the sentence

pattern teacher said).

After the student done saying the sentence(s), he/she need to pass the

toy to the other person of the other group. (Make sure you say the name

of the person that you want to pass to.)

If the alarm rang, means that its times up! And the team who still

holding the toy will not get the points, but the other two teams will get

it.

DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE

LOTTERY

http://gsyan888.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/flash-lotto.html

TRAIN GAME (REARRANGE TRAIN GAME (REARRANGE SENTENCE)

http://www.brenda88.idv.tw/2010/04/06.html

CONNECT 5

http://gsyan888.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/flash-gomoku.html

Creativity in the teaching of Chinese: Developing

learning games and fun classroom activities

By Sheautian Tan & I-Han Huang

17 May 2013

10th Annual Chinese Conference

IOE Confucius Institute for Schools 5

PAIR UP

http://gsyan888.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/flash-match2.html

MEMORY MEMORY GAME

WEBSITE

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QUIZLET

http://quizlet.com/_dk5fj

http://www.goanimate.com

http://goanimate.com/videos/0GxUQMvg3tKw?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0aDXgBv6ZIV0

GOANIMATE

Creativity in the teaching of Chinese: Developing

learning games and fun classroom activities

By Sheautian Tan & I-Han Huang

17 May 2013

10th Annual Chinese Conference

IOE Confucius Institute for Schools 6

http://www.zimflex.com

ZIMFLEX RAPS

Days of a week 星期 + number 星期 + number xīng qī

星期一，Yippy 星期二，Uh-huh 星期三，Sunny 星期四，Silly 星期五，Woohoo 星期六，Roll it 星期日，Reading

shàng wǔ shàng wǔ

上午 上午 shàng wǔ shàng wǔ

上午 上午 xià wǔ xià wǔ

下午 下午 wǎn shàng wǎn shàng

晚上 晚上

xià wǔ xià wǔ

下午 下午 wǎn shàng wǎn shàng

晚上 晚上

shì

是 is

MORNING!

AFTERNOON!

EVENING, NIGHT!

星期一，兔子穿新衣。 星期二，兔子肚子饿。 星期三，兔子去爬山。 星期四，兔子看电视。 星期五，兔子去跳舞。 星期六，兔子去溜冰。 星期日，兔子过生日。

Created by Sheautian Tan

兔子的一个星期 CHINESE NEW YEAR ACTIVITIES

Kungfu Fan

Making “Snake”

Calligraphy

Designing own Beijing Opera masks

Chinese Market

Creativity in the teaching of Chinese: Developing

learning games and fun classroom activities

By Sheautian Tan & I-Han Huang

17 May 2013

10th Annual Chinese Conference

IOE Confucius Institute for Schools 7

Rewards system for TERM 3: 1 yuan for: 1) meet your target in the lesson 2) good behaviour (not on consequence system) 3) positive learning attitude—respectful and bring all equipment 2 yuan for attending lunch time club 5 yuan for attending after school club 10 yuan for 2 sublevel improvement in Term 3 Assessment comparing with Term 2 20 yuan for 3 sublevel improvement in Term 3 Assessment comparing with Term 2 30 yuan for 4 sublevel improvement in Term 3 Assessment comparing with Term 2

Estimated Price of each items:

rubber: 5-10 yuan; red envelop: 10-15 yuan; pens: 15-20 yuan; angry birds pen:20-25 yuan notebook:20-25 yuan; small lanterns:25-30 yuan; angry birds pencil case with stationaries: 30-35 yuan large panda lantern:30-35 yuan;

yuán

元 Yuan

Thank you for your listening!

Any questions???