Unit title: 嗨！ Hi!

Introducing yourself in
Chinese
Area of interaction focus Significant concepts
Which area of interaction will be our What are the big ideas?
focus? What do we want our students to retain
Why have we chosen this? for years into the future?

Human Ingenuity Language is a foundation for

•The creation and use of everyday life, human
language as a means of interaction and general
communicating. learning.
•Exploring grammatical
patterns as a way of building Communication with others
and creating language. always depends on some form
of language.

MYP unit question

How can we benefit from learning a foreign
language?
How is learning a symbol/character-based
language different to learning an alphabet
based language?
Today’s lesson objectives

•Review summer homework

•Review rules and expectations
from last lesson
•Learn how to say numbers in
Chinese from 1-10
•Learn the Chinese hand signals for
numbers
 Expectations –
what I expect from you:
1. Listen in silence when somebody else in
the room speaks
2. Arrive to lessons on time, with all
equipment and be ready to learn.
3. Follow instructions and respect each
other and property
I will need the following for all of my lessons:

Exercise book and

vocabulary book

Textbook

Stationery
Planner/
Homework diary (pencil, pen, ruler,
coloured pen, gluestick)
What you can expect from me:
1. Rewards: ‘sticker’ system – for good pieces
of work/listening exercises/manners/trying
your best/participating. These will be
added up at the end of each half term and
the student with the most stickers can
expect a prize
2. Sanctions: late/incomplete
homework/rudeness/failure to follow
instructions/not respecting fellow
classmates/constant failure to bring
equipment and other forms of poor
behaviour will result in detentions, being
placed on ‘report’, being sent to HoD,
withdrawal or letters/phone calls home
3. Monitor and record your progress and
share details of your progress with
you
4. Regularly mark your books
5. To help you when you are stuck
6. To challenge you so you make progress!
Numbers
yī​
一
1
èr​​
二
2
sān​​
三
3
一 二 三
sì​​
四
4
wǔ​
五
5
liù​​
六
6
一 二 三 四

五 六
qī​​
七
7
bā​​
八
8
jiǔ​
九
9
shí​​
十
10
一 二 三 四

五 六 七 八
九 十
五
四
一
九
八
Practise!
 Numbers
• Write out the characters, pinyin and
English for the numbers 1-10 from page
18.
• EXT: Practise the 3 characters that you
find most difficult in your exercise
book.
yī​ èr​ sān​

sì​ wǔ​
liù​ qī​ bā​

jiǔ​ shí​
So, you think you know
your numbers?
Work with a partner to translate the following
mobile phone numbers into Chinese
(characters and pinyin!):
a) 明明 : 14579 632 454
b) 小红 : 19820 352 746
c) 丽丽 : 19753 241 687
 Homework
• Decorate your Chinese exercise books
so they are identifiably ‘Chinese’ and
cover with plastic.
• Learn the characters and pinyin for the
numbers 1-10.Test on Monday.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/
real_chinese/videos/start/