Hey guys, welcome to my shop. I am an AU based Mandarin/ESL teacher with experience of K-12 language teaching and adult education. I do hope the resources I am sharing here contribute to your teaching. If you have any questions or great ideas that you'd like to discuss, feel free to contact me via social media. You may easily find the link to my Instagram/Pinterest account on my homepage. Let's collaborate and make language learning super fun for kids!
Hey guys, welcome to my shop. I am an AU based Mandarin/ESL teacher with experience of K-12 language teaching and adult education. I do hope the resources I am sharing here contribute to your teaching. If you have any questions or great ideas that you'd like to discuss, feel free to contact me via social media. You may easily find the link to my Instagram/Pinterest account on my homepage. Let's collaborate and make language learning super fun for kids!
Overview
Check out this collection of creative and fun paper cutting activity! TEN original templates specially designed for 2022, the Year of Tiger. This collection purposefully includes three Chinese characters that are related to the celebration of the Year of Tiger, 寅(yín), 吉(jí) and 春(chūn). Through this activity, children are afforded with opportunities to learn about this Chinese folk art, explore different cultural elements and look at Chinese characters from a fun perspective.
Students’ complete work also makes fantastic bulletin board display! Kids love seeing their work up on the wall, especially as part of the Spring Festival celebration!
Highlights
Creative Design
Chinese characters and cultural elements are meaningfully integrated. Explicit instructions and sample work are available on each template. Easy to follow and cut with no less fun.
Two Versions
Two versions are included in the file, coloured and uncoloured. Each template in the coloured version contains 2 pages which need to be printed on both sides on white paper, while the uncoloured one can be simply printed out on any colour paper you wish.
Flexible Uses
★Spring Festival celebration & classroom decoration
This collection makes a great in-class activity at the beginning of the new school year as we look to celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival around February. Using students’ completed work to decorate the classroom will certainly give them a real sense of achievement.
★Co-curricular activity
This collection serves as an engaging and charming co-curricular activity which can be run during breaks or after-school time.
★Remote learning activity
Students would enjoy spending time doing some paper cutting and decorating their house (with their parents) at home!
★Set work
Of course, this activity would make great set work for casual/relief teachers.
Happy Cutting Everyone!
Wishing you all a great start to the new year. :)
Christmas Chant - Santa, Santa, What Do You See?
Students learn a chant, which is the Chinese equivalent of Santa, Santa What Do You See?, to help them practise the relevant language. After learning the chant, use this collection of worksheets to drill key vocabulary and relevant sentence structures with your class/children.
This collection consists of 11 creatively designed activities, ranging from matching activity to make a Santa, Santa, What Do You See? wheel activity.
If you like this activity, click the link to check out the Ultimate Christmas Activity Pack (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-ultimate-activity-pack-for-mandarin-beginners-12425149). This collection of worksheets is excluded from the activity pack.
By completing this booklet, students learn Chinese equivalent of the well-known
If you like this activity, click the link below to check the Ultimate Christmas Activity Pack. This booklet is excluded from the activity pack.
Overview
This ultimate activity pack is a thoughtful collection of fun, engaging and exciting Christmas-themed activities for Mandarin learners. 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. 63 creative and original worksheets are included to support learners with different backgrounds and learning needs.
Christmas has been an all-time fun theme to learn towards the end of a school year. Learning it 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 also allows teachers/parents to help children learn, review and consolidate their prior knowledge of numbers and colours as well as handwriting skills in Mandarin Chinese in a uniquely charming way!
Through this activity pack, students learn to say and write core Chinese characters. These words will be reinforced through various fun learning activities, ranging from craft activities to colouring activities.
This activity set includes:
Write & Colour Worksheets (6 core words)
Vocabulary Introduction Worksheets (2 sets, 4 pages)
Mix & Match (3 pages)
Count & Match (3 pages)
Cut & Match (2 pages)
Holiday Craft (4 pages)
Candy Box Craft (1 page)
Christmas Dice (2 pages)
Holiday Finger Puppets (4 pages)
Christmas Wheel (4 pages)
Mix & Match Cards Template (1 page)
Christmas Puzzle (2 pages)
Count Worksheet (4 pages)
Ornament Colouring (1 page)
Colour by Number Colouring Worksheets (16 pages)
Colour by keys (2 pages)
Free Colouring Worksheets (5 pages)
I hope you will enjoy this set and have fun celebrating Christmas with your students! ☺
Fun activity pack for Mandarin beginners.
Learn about the Mid-Autumn Festival through various entertaining activities.
This set includes:
Festival vocabulary write&colour worksheets (3 core words)
Mix&Match
Mid-Autumn Festival Dice Template
Make Lanterns with banners
Mid-Autumn Festival Postcards
Mid-Autumn Festival Stripes Puzzles (4 puzzles included)
Mid-Autumn Festival 3×3 Grid Puzzles (4 puzzles included)
Answer keys provided.
Total Pages: 34 pages
Answer Key: Included
Teaching Duration: 1 Week
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with this creative and entertaining Agamograph activity. It is such a fun yet easy way to integrate art into our language classroom. Through this activity, students learn about the Mid-Autumn Festival as well as the core Chinese characters related closely to it. Chinese poems are integrated creatively into this activity. Moreover, this Agamograph set provides opportunities for students to further develop their understanding of Chinese characters and improve their handwriting skills. Students can take their work home to share with their family and friends. Their completed artworks can also be displayed in the language classroom or school hallway, which will be very impressive to the school community.
★Differentiation★
Different versions of worksheets are included in this set, catering to students’ various needs. For beginner students, worksheets contain both Pinyin and Chinese characters. Moreover, stroke orders of contained characters are provided to facilitate students handwriting. The integration of Chinese poetry in this activity exposes background learners (native students) to the depth of learning Chinese.
This activity set includes:
Picture & Hanzi (18 pages)
Hanzi & Hanzi (8 pages)
Picture & Poem (8 pages)
Display templates (2 pages)
I hope you will enjoy this set and have fun making the Agamograph and celebrating Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival with your students! :)
Pages: 46
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
This collection of Match It! worksheets is highly recommended for teaching/learning Mandarin Chinese. Kids love cutting and matching up cards! These charming and entertaining worksheets can be utilized in varied ways, at different stages of teaching and learning, to enhance students’ language acquisition. Both Pinyin and Chinese characters are provided to support students.
Suggested ways of using this collection:
Matching
Flip Flop
Assessment
Extension Work
Homework
Set Work
**Note: detailed uses of this collection is attached. **
Various topics are covered in this collection. 30 original sets of cards are in included.
List of Topics
Numbers (2 pages)
Days of the Week
Months (2 pages)
Family Members
Body Parts (2 pages)
Colours (2 pages)
Clothes (2 pages)
Animals (4 pages)
Hobbies (2 pages)
Daily Routines
Questions Words
Pronouns
Verbs (2 pages)
Food (2 pages)
Dessert
Fruit (2 pages)
Veggies (2 pages)
Sports
Weather
Feelings
Transportation
Countries (2 pages)
Continents
Occupation (2 pages)
Electronic Devices
Stationery
Rooms
Furniture
Festivals
Christmas
Check out this Handwriting Pack for the Clothes Unit!
This pack includes:
2 pages of intensive writing worksheets.
3 sets of fun ‘Trace&Write’ worksheets, recommended for Mandarin beginners.
① ‘Trace&Write’ with colour illustrations
② ‘Trace&Write’ with uncoloured clothes
③ ‘Trace&Write’ without pictures (students can draw their own illustrations)
(*Each set consists of 7 pages.)
Students should trace the words first before writing by themselves. They can then colour in the listed piece of clothing the way they like.
Vocabulary list:
衣服,毛衣,裤子,裙子,T恤,连衣裙,外套,校服,袜子,帽子,手套,围巾,鞋
Happy Handwriting!
Check out this Handwriting Pack for the Sports Unit!
This pack includes:
2 pages of intensive writing worksheets.
3 sets of fun ‘Trace&Write’ worksheets, recommended for Mandarin beginners.
① ‘Trace&Write’ with colour illustrations
② ‘Trace&Write’ with uncoloured sports
③ ‘Trace&Write’ without pictures (students can draw their own illustrations)
(*Each set consists of 8 pages.)
Students should trace the words first before writing by themselves. They can then colour in the listed piece of clothing the way they like.
Vocabulary list:
运动,足球,篮球,排球,网球,板球,棒球,冰球,乒乓球,羽毛球,骑车,游泳,跑步,跳绳,滑雪,滑冰
Happy Handwriting!