Animals Activity Pack (Mandarin Chinese) - 动物

Overview
This activity pack is purposefully designed for Mandarin beginners. It is highly recommended to Mandarin teachers as well as parents who are homeschooling their children or would like some extra fun work for their Mandarin-loving kids. 31 creative and original worksheets are included to support learners with different backgrounds and learning needs.

For young learners, learning about animals in a foreign language can bring so much joy! This practical activity pack provides a variety of engaging and entertaining activities and drilling exercises focusing on developing students’ different language skills. It allows teachers/parents to help children learn, review and consolidate their knowledge of animals in Mandarin Chinese in a uniquely charming way!

Highlights
● Engaging Worksheets
31 thoughtfully designed worksheets, including a variety of engaging activities. Collaborative and interactive activities promoting pair/group work are also included in this pack. For example, when complete the Cut & Paste worksheets, students can work in pairs or small groups (of no more than 3 people) and play Mix & Match. Moreover, worksheets included have also been designed to better suit the need of teaching different sub-topics, including Pet Animals, Zoo Animals and Farm Animals.
Note: For all included worksheets, students can write in either Chinese characters or Pinyin according to their levels.

● Handy Answer Keys
Carefully designed Answer Keys to help simplify the process of checking answers and provide scaffolding where needed.

Peer Assessment - When checking answers, teachers could ask students to swap their worksheets with one another and peer mark each other’s work.

Scaffolding (Exemplars) - To best scaffold some students, teachers/parents can use a reasonable part of the Answer Key sheet as exemplars to show students explicitly what they need to do.

● Fostering Handwriting Skills
Creative ways of demonstrating stroke orders of each Chinese character and helping students develop their handwriting skills through using the uniquely designed Three-Step Writing Initiative.

● Various Uses
This activity pack can be applied in varied ways that best suit educators’ needs. For example, the included worksheets can be used to assess students’ knowledge, to be given to students as homework or to be provided to causal casual/relief teachers as set work.

Total Pages: 61 pages
Answer Key: Included
Teaching Duration: 1 Semester