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ES Chinese: SG1

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Unit:
  • All About Me
Essential Questions:
  • How do we use sentence patterns to organize ideas?
  • How do we introduce yourself in Chinese?
  • What are the differences of family member names between Chinese and English/your home language?
Unit:
  • Like and Dislike
Essential Questions:
  • How do you express your likes and dislikes in Chinese?
  • How do you use basic sentence structures to ask and answer questions about people’s likes and dislikes?
Unit:
  • Weather and Seasons
Essential Questions:
  • How do you describe different weather and seasons in Chinese?
  • Can you explain how the weather and season impact people’s daily life?
Unit:
  • Transportation
Essential Questions:
  • What are the forms of transportation in Chinese?
  • How does transportation connect people between different communities?

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Unit:
  • Chinese Characters
Essential Questions:
  • How have the Chinese characters evolved?
  • What are structures of Chinese characters?
  • What are the strategies that we can use to help recognize the characters? (Strokes, radicals, Pinyin)
Unit:
  • Start to Read (recognition and read aloud)
Essential Questions:
  • Can you make a connection between the sound and characters?
  • When do we pause and use different tones to help us understand?
  • How do we read aloud to make us understood?
  • What kind of reading strategies can we use to decode the text?
Unit:
  • Start to Write (characters, phrases and sentences)
Essential Questions:
  • What are the rules of writing Chinese characters?
  • How do we balance the structure of the Chinese characters?
  • How do we construct phrases according to the meaning of Chinese characters?
  • How do we construct a complete sentence?

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