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A Games Based Approach to Primary Mandarin
Rachel Tiefenbrun
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Benefits of using games:• purposeful interaction
• promotes participation
• builds confidence
• increases motivation / focus
• encourages independent work / thinking
• develops social skills
• allows teacher to monitor / support
• effective language learning tool
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Characteristics of best games:
• clear linguistic goal
• simple game goal / outcome
• avoid elimination
• element of contest
• adaptable to different ability levels
• luck element
• appropriate pace / length
• appropriately placed in lesson
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Language focus: numbersLO: Learn to recognise number
characters 1-10.
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LO:
Understand the two rules for building numbers 11-99.
Learn to recognise and pronounce numbers 11-99.
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Language Focus: datesLO: Learn to say the months of the year in sequence.
The Last word
Birthday Line
Hands under the table
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LOs:
Learn that in Chinese, the date is written the opposite way round to the date in English.
Learn to write / say dates in Chinese to include month and day date.
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Language focus: pictographsLO: learn to recognise up to 30 modern characters by
looking at their ancient equivalents.
Game 1: Matching memory game: ancient pictographs to English words.
Game 2: Matching memory game: ancient pictographs to modern characters.
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Game 3: Beat the clock: match all three.
Game 4: Beat the Oracle.
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Language focus: radicalsLO :Learn to recognise and pronounce 8 animal characters.
Learn to ask and answer the question: 你有没有…
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LO:
Learn to recognise and / or pronounce up to 4 commonly used measure words: 个,碗,杯,只。
Differentiation?
Extending learning beyond the game?
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Tips for playing games:
• Teach children interactive language for playing the game
• Model game first
• Be firm / fair about enforcing rules
• Familiarize children with the names of the games to reduce the need for instructions
• Keep games in a box for fast finishers and encourage regular use
• Stop the game when children are all still on task
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Useful reference books (not specific to teaching Mandarin but many of the games can be adapted):Games for teaching Primary French - Daniele Bourdais and Sue Finnie (Crown House)Practising Modern Foreign Languages in the Primary Classroom - Sue Cave (Brilliant Publications)Primary Communications Box - Carol Nixon and Michael Tomlinson (Cambridge University Press)500 Activities for the Primary Classroom -Carol Read (Macmillan Books for Teachers)
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Please contact me if you have any questions or would like further information
about the games used in the workshop.