This PDF introduces students to family vocabulary, Valentine's Day, and love.
Students will trace 我爱我的家 and draw their family members.
Small hearts templa... Read More...
Escape Rooms are so much fun and students learn while they are engaged in collecting items online to escape a room.
Creative Chinese is developing lots of ne... Read More...
Use this fun board game to review details of the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations.
Just print the board and cut out the cards. Place the cards on the board. ... Read More...
Kahoot is a fun game platform where students can demonstrate their learning through online quizzes and games.
Game Title: Chinese Characters - Pictographs
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Students will learn many ways of getting around - plane, bus, boat, car, motor-bike, tractor, bike, truck, and helicopter.
Keynote: transport game
PDF: tr... Read More...
To teach toddlers Mandarin, it is important to have lots of props that engage young learners. Colorful scarves are very tactile and can be used to teach lots of... Read More...
For young children, it is important that they are actively involved and one of the best ways to make sure that happens is to use a variety of props.
When lea... Read More...
Students will learn to read characters and say colors in Chinese.
When students land on a Chinese character, the English translation needs to be given. If th... Read More...
If you have a projector in your classroom, use this Ppt to teach colors. Begin by teaching the students an easy rhyme:
红色，红色， 红色，red, red, red,
绿色，绿色， 绿色，... Read More...
Students will learn months, days and dates or review new content with this fun board game. Just download the cards (included) and place on the board.
Throw t... Read More...
Students will review vocabulary related to countries, nationalities, and be able to read characters about expressing nationality.
Download the Nationalities ... Read More...
Students will play BINGO to review or learn new vocabulary for Integrated Chinese: Chapter 3. Topics include: days, dates, time.
Download Integrated Chinese ... Read More...
Download these BINGO game cards to review characters for Integrated Chinese Book 1: Chapter 1. (no pinyin)
Download these BINGO game cards with pinyin... Read More...
Check out these resources to teach Nationalities.
Nationalities Flashcards
你是哪国人？Video
Countries I want to visit Video
Dice Game - Countries... Read More...
This is a fun game for students to review numbers 1-10. There are 2 parts to the activity - the cookie jar and the cookies.
You can cut out the cookies prior... Read More...
Need a new way to review vocabulary?
Try this fishing game. Download and print the fish templates. Attach a paper clip to each fish and insert a Chinese char... Read More...
Making sure students understand the Chinese language can be challenging. With Elementary School students the easiest way to ensure understanding is to use props... Read More...
This is a popular game students love to play. Instead of the number coordinates used in the traditional battleships game, this variation uses Chinese names of a... Read More...
Print the Quiz Cards (English) and cut each card out carefully. Students will play card games in small groups. When they pick up a card, they need to follow the... Read More...
Download the cue cards for a simple Roleplay.
Students will learn sit, stand, dance, etc., and be a robot to take commands from classmates.... Read More...
Use the Fish game to help students recognize Chinese characters. Make fishing rods with rulers, strong and magnets to pick up the fish.... Read More...
After students have learned some simple radicals and characters, I then introduce the Chinese character Hunt game.
Students as young as 5 can play the game, ... Read More...
The Fishing Game uses fishing rods made from a chopstick, a piece of yarn, and a small magnet.
Cut out the fish templates Attach 1 or 2 paper clips to each ... Read More...
The first stage in teaching characters to students, is to focus on the shape and components.
See below for the stages I use to introduce characters. I print ... Read More...
