Area of interaction focusWhich area of interaction will be

our focus?Why have we chosen this?

Human Ingenuity•The creation and use of language as a means of communicating.•Exploring grammatical patterns as a way of building and creating language.

Significant conceptsWhat are the big ideas?

What do we want our students to retain for years into the

future?

Language is a foundation for everyday life, human interaction and general learning.

Communication with others always depends on some form of language.

MYP unit question

How can we benefit from learning a foreign language?

How is learning a symbol/character-based language different to learning an alphabet

based language?

Unit title: 嗨！ Hi! Introducing yourself in Chinese

Numbers1-10

•Review summer homework

•Review rules and expectations from last lesson

•Learn how to say numbers in Chinese from 1-10

•Learn the Chinese hand signals for numbers

Today’s lesson objectives

一1

yī

二2

èr

三3

sān

一 三二

四4

sì

五5

wǔ

六6

liù

一 三二 四

五 六

七7

qī

八8

bā

九9

jiǔ

十10

shí

一 三二 四

五 六 七 八九 十

五

四

一

九

八

Practise!

Numbers

• Write out the characters, pinyin and English for the numbers 1-10 from page 18.

• EXT: Practise the 3 characters that you find most difficult in your exercise book.

sān

sì wǔ

yī èr

liù qī bā

jiǔ shí

So, you think you know

your numbers?

Work with a partner to translate the following mobile phone numbers into Chinese (characters and pinyin!):

a) 明明 : 14579 632 454

b) 小红 : 19820 352 746

c) 丽丽 : 19753 241 687

3) Hope to ……(learn/achieve…)

Homework• Decorate your Chinese exercise

books so they are identifiably ‘Chinese’ and cover with plastic.

• Learn the characters and pinyin for the numbers 1-10.Test on Monday.

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/videos/start/