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ALL FOUR SKILLS

The Restaurant

Learning outcome:

Children will have learned to read from a menu, place an order and respond to prompts.

You will need:

Pictures of various foods, and/or food-related props such as a packet of noodles, a teapot and a loaf of bread.

How to play:

• Ask the children to come to the front of the class in pairs – one is the restaurant owner/waiter, the other is the customer • Give a vocabulary list/‘menu’ to the customer

• The restaurant owner will ask the customer what he/she would like, and the customer must choose an item from the menu and read it out

• The owner will then pick up the correct prop/picture and give it to the customer – the class must then vote to check whether it is the correct item

Differentiation:

Differentiate for less capable Mandarin speakers by reviewing or pre-teaching the vocabulary necessary for ordering from a simple menu. Menus can either have just Chinese, Chinese and pinyin or Chinese, pinyin and English. Alternatively, the customer may choose more than one item.

ALL FOUR SKILLS

Mosquito!

Learning outcome:

Children will have learned to recognise words aurally and in their written form.

You will need:

Cards in the shape of mosquitoes, each with one character or word on; as many as you need for the game depending on the length of the game. Also, individual pieces of paper and marker pens, plus two plastic fy swatters.

How to play:

• Attach the mosquitoes to the whiteboard or wall

• Hand out individual sheets of paper/whiteboards and marker pens

• Practice pronouncing each of the words

• Ask children to recite the words as you point to each mosquito • Select two children to be the swatters, and ask them to stand in front of the whiteboard or wall

• Pronounce a word and ask the swatters to swat the corresponding mosquito

• Ask the children sitting down to write the correct word (in groups) and tell you if the winning swatter was correct

Differentiation:

The game becomes more competitive if the frst swatter to swat correctly gets a point; for a more collaborative game, ask the two swatters to agree which answer is correct. To differentiate for higher levels of Mandarin the mosquitoes can also contain shor t phrases or collocations of characters; the children work together in pairs and must swat two characters that go together to make up a valid compound word.