Transcript Project “ The four great inventions in ancient China

Design Curriculum and
Engage Students Study
Chinese Through Project
Resesrch
Helen Guo
Palmer Trinity School
Design Curriculum
Use 5C’s design Chinese curriculum
Use cultural elements as themes of
course units
Teach daily-life cultural elements
Compare cultures all the time
Follow the 5 c’s and standards For Foreign language
learning
Each culture element is a lead
Student-centered study
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Students online research
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Edit students’ research info to form a text
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Vocabulary, grammar, culture comparison, and connection are formed
accordingly
design curriculum
My Chinese 5
Theme
主题
7．Chinese Culture
Promotes the Spirit of
Martial arts 中华文化
弘扬武术精神
Vocabulary
生词
Grammar and
Chinese language
Expressions
语法和汉语表达
少林寺Shaolin ， 武当山
1．Use past and past
mountain Wu-Dang，功夫Kong-fu， perfect to describe origin
练功practice Kong-fu，长时间
and history of kong-fu
long time，师傅master，武打
2. is not…but…不是…而
acrobat fighting ，武术 martial art， 是
精神spirit，弘扬promote，传播
3. All in all 总之
spared ，继承inherit，提倡
4. Due to由于
advocate，起源origin，和尚
monk，佛教Buddhism，保护
protect，
Cultures
文化
Many young people
like Kong-fu, this unit
helps students to
have a deeper
understanding of
martial arts
2. Movie Talks
谈论电影
8. Idea of Feng- Shui
风水说
非常棒wonderful，动作片 action film，
影星 movie star
爱情片romantic film，全世界 all over the
world，喜剧片comedy film，值得 worth
主演 leading actor，恐怖片horror film，
感人 touching
影迷 fan， 男演员 actor，最佳导演best
director，制造商film maker，花费spend，
形势form，时髦stylist，60 年代1960’s，
21世纪21 century，注重 emphasis，大
型broad- scale，场景scene，现代
modern， 科技手段tech skills，音响效果
sound effect，好莱坞Hollywood，迪士
尼Disney，震撼shock，精彩 great
1.measure word部
风水Feng-shi，重要important，生活
life，部分part，相信believe，房子
house，结构structure，办公室office，
朝向direction，祖宗ancestors ，保佑
bless，带来bring，好运good luck，
灾难disaster ， 否则otherwise，如
果if，导致cause，避免avoid，生活
life，应用apply，到to ，实际上in
fact，
Use conjunctions：
如果 … 就 if
只要 … 就 only…
否则 … 就 otherwise
非得 must
2. two verbs next to each
other这部电影值得看。
3. use past tense and past
perfect tense to describe “ I
saw…, I have watched…, I
had watched…”
4. use I feel/I think 我觉得/
我认为to discuss opinions
5. from now on 从此
6．不但 … 而且 not
only…but also…
Compare Chinese popular
movies with American movies
Compare Harry Potter with
Monkey King
Feng-Shui is one of the
most popular superstitions
in Chinese culture. It has
been developed to many
theories. Nowadays there
are still many people study
and practice it and the
theories of Feng-Shi in daily
life.
Using cultural elements design a curriculum
My Chinese 3
Theme
主题
2.Different life
styles
不同的生活方
式
Book 3
lesson 4
Vocabulary
生词
Grammar and Chinese
language Expressions
语法和汉语表达
城市city，比than，天气
1. comparative adverb比
weather，出门get out，冷
than
cold，热hot，得，许多many，
to compare seasons
广告advertisement ，马路
longer/shorter, population
road，挂hang，停车park， larger/smaller, weather
人口population，长long，短 hotter/colder, 习惯get
short，超市supermarket，小 used to,
吃店snack bar，早餐
breakfast ，晚餐dinner，习
惯get used to，向 … 问好say
hello to sb，山区mountain
area，
Cultures
文化
People in
different
countries have
quite different
eating habits
and life style
Southern
Chinese and
northern
Chinese also
have different
eating habits
Using cultural elements design a curriculum
My Chinese 2
Theme
主题
Vocabulary
生词
2. Evolution of Chinese
characters汉字的 进化
Chinese characters汉字，Chinese 1.Past tense了，
language汉语/中文, evolution演
2. Passive voice: 被 ，
变, speak说，write写，China中国，example:
history 历史, a few thousands of
经过上千年的演变，汉
year几千年，pictography象形字， 字被简化成了今天的样
develop发展，simplify简化，
式。
form 样式
3.due to 由于
纸paper，笔brush，墨ink，砚台 1. Past tense and past
ink stone，宝treasure，
perfect 成了
写write，毛笔字/书法calligraphy， 2. use a verb, not a
练习practice，需要need，style风 infinitive 需要大量练习
格, 不同different , 流派genre,
3. must 必须
start 开始, popular流行, study学
4．although … but…虽然
习,
… 但是…
3. Four treasures of the
study
文房四宝
Grammar and Chinese
language Expressions
语法和汉语表达
Cultures
文化
Project research
“Evolution of Chinese
characters汉字的 进化”
Chinese culture values
calligraphy greatly and treats
it as a kind of fine arts.
Chinese calligraphy has
many different genres. 中国
的书法有很多不同的流派。
Teach daily-life cultural elements
Gifts and congratulations in different cultures
8, 4
Project “Chinese lucky numbers, mascots, and taboos”
A survey about my course themes
Survey questions:
What are the five themes in the list do you like the most?
What are the three themes you like the least?
This survey will help me for the future course design
Survey results
themes that middle school students like better
1)
The great inventions in Ancient china 中国古代的四大发明
2)
Chinese food 中国食物
3)
Chinese mascots and taboos 中国人的吉祥物和禁忌
4)
My summer vacation 我的暑假
5)
Chinese zodiac 中国的十二生肖
6)
China’s traditional holidays and celebrations 中国的传统节日和庆祝活动
Survey results
themes that middle school students like better
1)
Life of Chinese and American high school students 中国和美国的中学生活
2)
Protect our environment and wild animal 爱护环境和野生动物
3)
My school and my classes 我的学校和我的课程
4)
Gifts and congratulations in different cultures 不同文化的节日祝贺
5)
Different diet habits in different region 不同地域的饮食和习惯
Survey results
The themes high school students like better
Communicating and Understanding People with Different cultures 不
同文化交流和理解
Life style in different cultures 不同文化的生活方式
Life of Chinese and American high school students
中国和美国的中学生活
Legends and celebrations of traditional Chinese holidays 中国传统节日的传说和庆祝
Movie Talk 谈论电影
Chinese food 中国食物
Survey results
The themes high school students like
Chinese calligraphy 中国书法
Travel and study abroad 出国学习和旅游
Chinese mascots and taboos
中国人的吉祥物和禁忌
The great inventions in Ancient china
Idea of Feng Shui
中国古代的四大发明
风水说
Difference between Chinese and Western Medical Treatment 中医和西医的区别
Communicating and understanding people with different cultures 不同文化间的交流
Survey results
The themes high school students dislike
Beijing opera 中国京剧
Ancient clothing and modern fashion 古代服装和现代时尚
The themes middle school students dislike
Chinese vs Western Medical Treatment 中医和西医治疗
Idea of Feng Shui 风水说
Religions and Life Styles of China’s 56 Ethnic Groups 中国56个民族和信仰
Different diet habits in different region 不同地域的饮食和习惯
Chinese food
Eating habits in different regions - A Bite of China
Northern vs. southern Chinese foods
Western vs eastern foods
examples of Study history through great ancient
contributions
Project “ The four great inventions in ancient China
Paper 造纸术
Movable printing 印刷术
Gunpowder 火药
Compass 指南针
Study history through great ancient contributions
Readings: Zheng He’s seven voyages (Ming,1405 -1433) to Indian Ocean
Zhang Heng ( Han, 78-139) designed the first seismograph to record
earthquakes 张衡测震仪
Videos about technology in ancient China
Project “song dynasty”
Song’s advanced technology
Students learned a great deal of Song dynasty after project “ The four great
inventions” and they are more interested in learning people’s life, policies,
and how Song finally fall and Mongols took the power from Song
The famous Chinese painting “清明上河图”
reflected people life at that period
Song’s decline and Mongols’ conquest of Song
Mongol-Song war ended in 1279
My hometown inner Mongolia
Mongolia is located in northern border
one of 56 ethnic groups
People’s live in inner Mongolia
Language and schools
Naadam festival twice a year – sports festival- horse racing and wrestling
Project “china’s han and tang dynasty”
Divide students into groups, some group chose Han while others chose Tang
So they can present the same time.
Teacher support and direct a
comparison Han and Tang from
different aspects of politics,
openness of the emperors, wars,
compare ancient philosophies
Who were the ancient Chinese philosophers?
Zhuangzi 庄子(Chuang Tzu ?369-286 BC ), Laozi 老子(?604-484 BC) and
Confucius 孔子( 551-479 BC)
What were their famous philosophies?
Students work on their research and have many interesting findings
Ask students “What can we still benefit from these ancient philosophies?”
Ancient Chinese philosophies
Zhuang Zhou Dreams of Being a Butterfly 庄周梦蝶
Once upon a time, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a
butterfly flitting about happily enjoying himself. Suddenly he awoke.
He did not know whether he was Zhou, who had dreamed of being
a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was Zhou.
The Death of Wonton 混沌之死
The emperor of the Southern Seas was Shu 倏, the emperor of the Northern Sea
was Hu 忽, and the emperor of the Center was Hun-dun 混沌. Shu 倏 and Hu 忽
often met each other in the land of Hun-dun, and Hun-dun treated them very well.
Wanting to repay Hun-dun 's kindness, Shu and Hu said, 'All people have seven holes
for seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing, but Hun-dun does not have. Let's chisel
some holes for him.” So every day they chiseled one hole in him, and on the seventh
day Hun-dun died when seven holes completed.
study Ancient Chinese philosophies
Zhuangzi and the skull 庄子与骷髅的对话
When Zhuangzi was going to Chu, he saw by the roadside a skull, he asked it saying,
"Sir, was it some insatiable ambition that drove you to transgress the law and brought
you to this? Was it the fall of a kingdom, the blow of an executioner's axe that brought
you to this? Or had you done some shameful deed and could not face the reproaches of
father and mother, of wife and child, and so were brought to this? Was it hunger and
cold that brought you to this, or was it that the springs and autumns of your span had
in due course carried you to this?" He then put it under his head as a pillow and went
to sleep. At midnight the skull appeared to him in a dream and said to him, "All that
you said to me is just what I should expect from a live man. Among the dead, none is
king, none is subject, there is no division of the seasons; for us the whole world is
spring, the whole world is autumn. No monarch on his throne has joy greater than ours.
How can you imagine that I would cast away joy greater than that of a king on his
throne, only to go back again to the toils of the living world?"
Compare a traditional Chinese treatment and a modern
western equipment
Culture comparison
Chinese and American High schools
Videos “Chinese Schools 中国学校 ”
Texts and discussions on life of Chinese and American high school students
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