Grade 10: Acquiring Information

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

• process and adapt information from age-appropriate Chinese-language resources to complete authentic tasks
• convey acquired information with an increasing level of competency in oral and written language

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Invite students to examine posters, flyers, or movie listings in the newspaper and to role-play deciding which movies to watch or which items to buy.
• Ask each student to watch a daily Chinese TV program at home for a week and report back to the class on the progress of the story, topics discussed, or characters. Students are then assigned to work in groups, so that they can compare notes.
• Have students select comic strips from local Chinese-language newspapers and explain them to the class or role-play them.
• Introduce a short Chinese movie, giving the context, time, and setting. Challenge students to predict what might happen in terms of plot and relationship development, based on given key words and pictures, if available. After showing short segments, discuss the story as a class. Then form groups and have each group present one section of the story.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• When students work with newspapers, posters, TV programs, movies, or comic strips, look for evidence that they are able to:
  • find the information they need to complete the assigned tasks
  • record and represent the information using Pinyin and some Chinese characters
  • use a variety of strategies to help them understand the material (e.g., making predictions from the context, looking for familiar words and patterns, using illustrations, using dictionaries)
• Provide opportunities for students to apply and monitor their Chinese language skills in real-life situations. For example, ask students to brainstorm situations outside of school in which they can use Chinese (e.g., conversing with someone who speaks Chinese when making a purchase, ordering a meal, asking for directions). Work with them to develop criteria for assessing their degree of success. Assign partners and have them work together to complete selected out-of-school tasks in Chinese. Then ask each pair to submit an outline of the task, along with an evaluation of the level of success achieved.

• Chinese Unmasked - Volumes 1 & 2
• Concise English-Chinese/Chinese-English Dictionary (Oxford)

• Childhood of Wang Mian
• The Dragon's Tongue Series
• Tadpole and the Whale

• Chinese Mandarin Resource Book - Volumes 1, 2, and 3
• Hanyu (Revised Edition)
• Zhongguotong

• Chinese and Characters

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