Subject Teacher: Zhe Wu Contact: zhe@askeris.no
Grade 6 Language Acquisition
Mandarin Expectations: In order to succeed in Mandarin lessons, students are required to dedicate at least 15 minutes a day.
02/06/2017
Today, Grade 6 enjoyed a field trip to Sangrok martial arts training center in Oslo. The Grade 8 students kept a positive attitude and participated in activities related to Chinese Wushu martial arts.
01/06/2017
Students have started their summative assessment this week. They wrote scripts for their short plays and performed their plays in groups. I recorded their voices when they performed their group work. Please enjoy.
Group one
Group two
Group three
Group four
12/05/2017
This week students continue their learning about school communities. They have learned some new words, such as, 谁的， 书包， 谁 etc. And they also started to work together on their group work.
05/05/2017
This week students have learned vocabulary about address, such as 在哪， 楼， 几楼，街，路， 在学校，在家， 小学，中学，大学。 Students have practised to form different sentences with these new worlds. Students are encouraged to practise with the websites of Quizlet at home.
12/03/2017
Unit two---School Communities
Key concept: Communities
Related concepts: Audience, meaning, patterns
Statement of Inquiry: A school community is considered as a part of your identity and an important place to build social relationships.
Inquiry questions:
Factual - What is a school community?
Conceptual - What are differences between your school and those in other countries?
Debatable - What role does a school community play in your life?
The summative assessment and the rubric
02/06/2017
Today, Grade 6 enjoyed a field trip to Sangrok martial arts training center in Oslo. The Grade 8 students kept a positive attitude and participated in activities related to Chinese Wushu martial arts.
01/06/2017
Students have started their summative assessment this week. They wrote scripts for their short plays and performed their plays in groups. I recorded their voices when they performed their group work. Please enjoy.
Group one
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Ashish, Erik B, Oscar, Jaesung, Harendran
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Group two
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Inish, Alezender, Christofer, Anuska, Danish
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Group three
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Noor, Henrik, Erik S, Arthav, Viana
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Group four
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Omkar, Monica, Swayam, Lyn, Piotr
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Group two
Group three
Group four
12/05/2017
This week students continue their learning about school communities. They have learned some new words, such as, 谁的， 书包， 谁 etc. And they also started to work together on their group work.
05/05/2017
This week students have learned vocabulary about address, such as 在哪， 楼， 几楼，街，路， 在学校，在家， 小学，中学，大学。 Students have practised to form different sentences with these new worlds. Students are encouraged to practise with the websites of Quizlet at home.
01/04/2017
This week students were engaged in different activities to review vocabulary from current and previous lessons, which allowed students to gain confidence in speaking and listening.
24/03/2017
This week students were engaged in different activities to review vocabulary from current and previous lessons, which allowed students to gain confidence in speaking and listening.
24/03/2017
This week students have learned some new sentence structures, for instance, how to ask the address of their school or home. All students seemed enjoying the new word game.
12/03/2017
This week students have learned new words about schools, such as 学校. Students also linked the new words to the knowledge they have learned, such as 在学校，在家，哪个学校，哪个老师， 哪个妈妈. Students are encouraged to practise with the website of quizlet at home.
Unit One---- Chinese New Year
Key Concepts: Perspective
Related Concepts: Purpose, Meaning and Function
Global Contexts: Personal and Cultural Expression
Inquiry questions:
Factual:How do Chinese celebrate Chinese New Year?
Conceptual: What are the differences and similarities between Norwegian New Year and Chinese New Year?
Debatable: Does learning new cultural change who you are and how you are connected to another culture?
The Rubric of the Summative Assessment
17/02/2017
In order to help students understand better the rubric and summative assessment, Grade 6 did peer assessment for their Chinese New Year poster work. It was nice to see most students work hard on it. After that they did end unit self-reflection.
10/02/2017
This week, students have been practising the knowledge they had learned about Chinese New Year through different activities, such as competition games, word cards. Students really enjoyed these activities.
07/02/2017
On Monday the school celebrated the Chinese New Year. Grade 6, 7 & 8 presented an assembly on the theme of Chinese New Year and after that they taught the younger kids Chinese New Year traditions with different activities. At lunch time, they tasted some Chinese food which they really like. Grade 6, 7 & 8 did a fantastic job. It was a very successful celebration and everyone had a nice time. A big thanks to their engagement.
26/01/2017
This
week students have continued to learn about the Chinese New Year.
They made lanterns and hung them up in the class.
14/01/2016
新年好!
(Happy New Year!) Students have been learning about new year phrases
in Chinese and some celebrations and traditions for Chinese New Year.
Students have started to learn a new Chinese song and are encouraged
to practise at home. Please see the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frcKDw9IVgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ADlc9JwAA
Unit Two---- My family and I
Key Concepts: Identity
Related Concepts: Purpose, word choice and form
Global Contexts: Orientation in space and time
Inquiry questions:
Factual:What is your family like?
Conceptual: What is the role of family? Is it different in various cultures represented in class?
Debatable: Do you think family is important to us?
Rubric of Summative Assessment
07/12/2016
Students took summative assessment and did self-reflection as well. Most students did a good job in their summative assessment.
20/11/2016
These
weeks students have learned to talk about their family
members. Students also used new vocabulary and sentence
structures to introduce their family members
to their groups. All students were creative
and enjoying the activities.
13/11/2016
This week students have learned how to form a negative sentence in Chinese and different ways of forming question sentences. Students were required to make a dialogue in groups and role-play the dialogue with their classmates.
06/11/2016
Grade 6 has learned all the initials and finals in Pinyin (Mandarin
pronunciation). They have been practising writing conversations using
pinyin. This week, students have learned to ask someone's nationality
and say the names for various countries. Students can practise at
home with these websites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLuDpdt5Ry8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uS9f2W9TIo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQ0Rz5GLpQ
21/10/2016
Students have learned quite a lot of pinyin this week. Hopefully soon they can read by pinyin. They also learned how to ask someone's age and their first Chinese song-the number song. Students are encouraged to practise the song with the following link. You are welcome to listen their song by clicking here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH5pvIO9OGQ
Unit One---You and I
Key concept: Communication
Related concepts: Audience, meaning
Statement of Inquiry: Proper communication helps to improve human relationships by expressing our own ideas appropriately and understanding the meaning of others.
Inquiry questions:
Factual - What is a effective communication?
Conceptual - How can one be social and get along well with others?
Debatable - Who says courtesy is so important, especially in a different cultural context?
Rubric of Summative assessment
22/09/2016
This week Grade 6 have continued to learn greetings in Chinese. The students learned a few new Chinese characters and understood the basic structure of Chinese sentence. They practiced with different activities. In addition, students have learned how to count numbers from one to twenty.
04/09/2016
This week students have been introduced Chinese pronunciation system and they have also learned to exchange names with others and practiced with games. Students are encouraged to review new words with the website of quizlet at home.
https://quizlet.com/
Username: AIS-Chinese
Password: chinesetime
26/08/2016
This week, students have started to learn new Chinese words with stories. Stories encourage students to ask questions, and help them understand Chinese culture and memorize the new words. They have also learned to exchange names with others and practiced it with games.
They also learned Pinyin and four tones. Students were asked to practice at home with the websites (see below). This website offers Chinese Pinyin with audio. In addition, Grade 6 learned to greet people in Chinese.
Pinyin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwyQK62tO_U
Pinyin chart
https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php
