Mandarin Teaching Module 5

MODULE 5

 

DESCRIPTION: This module is designed for participants to find out more about their partners with a focus on their best friend. Teachers will need to prepare participants for the necessary vocabulary and language skills required for this module. This Module contains three tasks for each school; for the Australia participants, they need to find out who their partner’s best friend is, the two activities they both often do together, and three things to describe the personality of their partner’s best friend.  For the China participants, they need to find out who their partner’s best friend is, the two activities they both often do together, and three things to describe the appearance of their partner’s best friend.

 

DURATION: 6 days (任务期限: 6 天)

 

AUSTRALIA PARTICIPANTS:

Cool! Now you have got to know a little bit about your partner’s family and school.  Your next task is to find out about their best friend. Please do a little detective work to find out who your partner’s best friend is and two activities they often do together; also, ask him/her to tell you three things about the personality of their best friend. This time please make sure you ask questions and reply to your partner in MANDARIN only.

 

OUTCOME: When you have gathered all this information, please write a paragraph in English about your partner.

 

DUE DATE: You need to find out all the information by DD/MM! Good luck!

 

CHINA PARTICIPANTS:

太棒了！现在你更进一步的认识了你的伙伴的家庭背景和学校。接下来请你调查一下你的伙伴最要好的朋友是谁，请你的伙伴告诉你两件他/她和最要好的朋友常做的活动。最后，请你的伙伴用三句话描述他最要好的朋友的外貌。这次咱们得请你只能用英文提问和答复你的伙伴所提出的任何问题。

 

成果: 请将你所得到的资料整合起来并用中文编写成一段有关介绍你伙伴的短文。

 

任务期限: 你得在X月X号以前完成这些任务哦！加油！

 

Assessment 评估

Assess how adequately students can use the target language to communicate with their partners.  Please tick the box below to indicate the results for each of your students.

此一任务的评估是由老师根据学生们能否适当地使用目标语言和他们的伙伴沟通来判断学生们的学习成果。请在下面的表格里根据你学生的表现打

 

Interaction Sample

 

TEACHER’S NOTE

-In this module, participants are to use their target language to perform the tasks, i.e. the Australia participants use Mandarin and the China participants use English.

 

-Unlike previous tasks, the tasks contained in this module are nearly the same for both groups, except one of them where they need to use three words to describe their best friend’s personality (for the Australian participants) and appearance (for the Chinese participants). While participants might share too much information prematurely, this is less likely in this module due to more challenging requirement of having to use the target language.

 

-The duration of this module was originally set for 4 days, but was extended to 7 days due the lag in communication between both groups, which has always been a big problem in setting up a realistic timeframe for each module. The duration has been modified to 6 days here to allow sufficient time for completing the tasks.