04Jul
2015
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UCL IOE CI Chinese Conference – Meryl James

Meryl James shared some fabulous ideas of initial approaches to beginning Mandarin. She began with explaining that once you knew the numbers, you could say the months of the year and days of the week. I liked the idea of writing the Chinese characters with your body, 人 Rén meaning person. Stand up straight with […]

20Jun
2015
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12th Annual Chinese Conference UCL IOE CI – Friday

It was great to be part of the UCL IOE CI Chinese Conference. The exhibition of the Confucius Classrooms students and teachers hard work was impressive and looked beautiful after the hard work of the Hanban teachers. Katharine Carruthers, Minister Counsellor Shen, Dame Nicola Brewer and Professor Chris Husbands started the Conference with encouraging words […]

14Jun
2015
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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 […]