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ES Chinese: JG1

EMERGENT

Unit:

All About Me

Essential Questions:

What information would you like to share with your new friends?
What makes you special from other people? (Name, age, country you are from/have been to, and how you look- body parts)
How many people are there in your family? How can we introduce our family members?
What’s your hobby? What do you like to do at school? (Winter sports, summer sports, and water sports)
How to tell people how you feel?

Unit:

Color and Food

Essential Questions:

How to tell the color about things in our environment?
How can we order food and drinks for ourselves and our family?
Is there any difference between Chinese food and food from your country?

Unit:

Animals and Chinese Culture

Essential Questions:

Can you tell people the names of different animals we see in the zoo?
How can we tell the difference between variety of animals (eyes, nose, tails, mouth, etc)?
What zodiac animals do we have in Chinese Zodiac signs (Sheng Xiao)?
What’s your zodiac sign?
What are the Zodiac Signs of your family?

Unit:

Professions and People who Help Us

Essential Questions:

What jobs do people do (doctors, teachers, workers, nurses, ayi, guards etc)?
What jobs do you want to do?

Unit:

Transportations and Places

Essential Questions:

How do you go to school?
How do your classmates go to school? What transportations do you take in China?
How to introduce different places we have been to/ we are going to (hospitals, schools, police station, resultants, hotels etc.)
What places do we have around our school?
What places do we have around our compounds?

Unit:

Weather and Clothes

Essential Questions:

How many seasons in Beijing? How to say different clothes we wear in different seasons? How can we tell different colors/ sizes of clothes?
What’s the weather like today? What are you wearing today?
What languages do we use when we shop clothes?

Unit:

Survival Chinese

Essential Questions:

What Chinese language do we need in our daily life?

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