\u201cThis is the day my stepmom and dad got married. This one is the day of my little brother’s birthday\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
9th Grade Mandarin 1 speakers and writers are sharing information about important moments in their lives in written and verbal presentation. (This is my hardest class to catch student quotes because even our year one speakers\u2019 class is over 80% in the target language and I don\u2019t speak any Mandarin!) \u201cNi zhi dao ma\u2026\u201d Someone was using a good, advanced structure, I\u2019m told. Their teacher pauses to clarify in English that two ways to say \u201cI don\u2019t care\u201d have very different connotations\u2014one rude and the other a more neutral way of saying, “I have no preference.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students\u2019 posters each present three important moments in their lives and they are practicing their phrasing by presenting one another\u2019s posters, adding an element of needing to both read and present at once. After they complete this, students play a round of bingo with small cards of Mandarin characters. The teacher reads the character three times and students turn the card over. They pause sometimes in English to discuss things, like tricks they have for remembering a character\u2019s meaning. \u201cIt [Su\u00ec] looks to me like a sun setting over the mountain, which makes sense with ‘age’ because mountains have to be there a long time just to form.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIt [Su\u00ec] looks to me like a sun setting over the mountain, which makes sense with ‘age’ because mountains have to be there a long time just to form.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Students then play collaboratively against their teacher in bingo, with one student running the game. If they win three times before she does, they get to write their name down for \u201cgame points\u201d on a chart paper in the classroom, which they do (with glee).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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