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LISTENING/SPEAKING

Bingo

Learning outcome:

Children will have practised listening to Mandarin words and choosing the appropriate characters to write the words they hear.

You will need:

A bingo template with different characters/words and separate cards with the same words.

How to play:

• Print a number of different characters/words on the bingo template and on separate cards

• Give each child a bingo template and put all the separate character/word cards into a box

• Pull each character out of the box and read it aloud to the class

• When pupils hear a word/character that is on their card, they mark it off their char t or cover it with a counter • Students then cover each word as it is called out • The frst child to cover all their characters shouts ‘bingo! ’ • This game can also be used as a revision exercise at the end of a unit or period of study

Differentiation:

To make it harder, the children must read out all their characters to check that they are correct. They can also write their own characters on their templates instead of being given them printed out. To make it easier, children can sit in groups with the assistance of an educational assistant, or reduce the amount of characters needed to call ‘bingo’ to a row instead of all characters on the card. You can also use both – with a small prize for calling a row (child shouts ‘line! ’), and a larger prize for getting all characters on the board. It is also possible to play bingo with only radicals, or with compound words of two, three or more characters according to the level of your class.

LISTENING/SPEAKING

The Name Game

Learning outcome:

Children will have practised reading Mandarin nouns and problem-solving.

You will need:

Post-It Notes with nouns in Mandarin, pinyin and English (see below for differentiation).

How to play:

• Stick a Post-It Note on each child’s forehead without them looking at it

• The aim of the game is to ask other children questions in order to discover what is on the note

• Ask the children to move around the room asking each other one question at a time to guess what is on their note • Alternatively, divide the children into pairs and have them ask each other questions

• Once the children have guessed who/what they are, ask the children to sit down and ask them one by one to reveal their identity

NB It may be necessary to pre-teach the question forms that you want the children to practise during the lesson. This game can also be very good for practising the use of measure words as they are very common and are always used with nouns – you could perhaps focus on a par ticular group of measure words that are used with a cer tain type of nouns.

Differentiation:

Give more able students a note that has Mandarin, pinyin and English on it, so the less able ones have more clues; vice versa, give less able students a note with Mandarin only so the more able students have more of a challenge.