12th Annual Chinese Conference UCL IOE CI
I met so many wonderful teachers at this years conference. I promised I would share all my links and my online presentation.
https://app.emaze.com/@ALCOTTTF/chinese-conference-2015
Jess McCulloch @jessmcculloch
was the Australian teacher who introduces the lesson by jumping into the lesson. Follow her on twitter to see the great work and fun activities she uses in her Mandarin lessons.
Here is a link to the magic sack that I demonstrated at the end of the session;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/magic-change-bag
Here are all the links that I recommended;
Chinese Conference 2015
Great recommended websites
Simone Haughey’s school blog
www.robinhoodpmfl.wordpress.com
Simone Haughey’s Mandarin resources website
Whiteboard / Writing apps
Show me
Kids doodle
The quiz websites you can use for self assessment also;
Ebooks LFEE – please see my soon to be publised blog posts about Meryl James’ session explaining these ebooks more fully;
http://www.scilt.org.uk/Thehappyemperorandotherstories/tabid/4605/Default.aspx
Funny drawings of learning chinese
Awesome Chinese website with games. posters and videos
http://learnchinesewithyaolaoshi.weebly.com/
Ideas for use in Chinese lessons
Letter monster
https://twitter.com/tesResources/status/302447631572025344/photo/1
Chinese Flag
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/china-flag-printables
Carnation scrap paper
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese-carnations-scrapbook-paper
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese-cloud-design-scrapbook-paper
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese-lanterns-scrapbook-paper
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese-papercuts-scrapbook-paper
Reception Pandas
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/panda-crafts
Fortune sticks
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/sites/default/files/pdf/chinese_fortune_sticks.pdf
Progress in languages
http://janetlloyd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/evidence-of-progress-in-primary.html
Here is a fabulous link to Beijing Underground literally translated. The names will fascinate your students.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/04/24/beijings-subway-stops-literally-translated/
Pinyin pirate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsDIEyrUoJk&feature=channel_page
Assessment stickers
http://hampshirelanguages.wikispaces.com/Assessment
Please check out the Mini books series on Clare Seccombe’s wonderful blog site. Clare shares great ideas that can be transposed into Mandarin.
http://changing-phase.blogspot.co.uk/
http://lightbulblanguages.co.uk/
Check out Janet Lloyd’s blog for amazing practical ideas for use in the primary languages classroom.
To help your students with memory, check out Spaced Learning. Rory Gallagher explains it more here and has successfully taught many characters in Japanese to his students.
http://staffrm.io/@rorygallagher/pn0gW0nIYA
For help with memorisation, please see David Hyner website. He explains using humour, horror and love to make learning and memorisation more memorable.
My presentation
https://app.emaze.com/@ALCOTTTF/chinese-conference-2015
Please leave a comment if you have found this useful and if you have used any of these ideas in your lessons.