Year 2 Mandarin Overview Term 4 2014 My Home 我的家 Unit Descriptions This term, Year 2 students will learn about homes, with an emphasis on their home. Throughout the unit, students will learn to give their address, describe types of housing, and name various rooms in a typical house. Students will develop their appreciation of the Chinese culture through the introduction of the Hakka roundhouses of southern China. Learning Outcome Students will be able to say their address in Chinese, indicate in which form of housing they live and describe their home using colour words, numbers, and other common adjectives. Assessment Assessment will be carried out before the end of week 7 for the topic housing. It will include the following: •
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Listening and understanding the spoken word Reading and pronouncing the vocabulary Being able to construct sentences orally Main Vocabulary fáng zi
house gōng y ù
Apartment c h ú fáng
Kitchen y ù shì
Bathroom k è tīng
living room fáng jiān
Room c è suǒ
Toilet 房子
公寓
厨房
浴室
客厅
房间
厕所
h u ā yuán
Garden y ó u yǒng c h í
Pool f à n tīng
dining room yáng t á i
Balcony s h ū fáng
Study (room) jiā
House / home zhù z à i
Live in/ at yǒu
Has / have méiyǒu
Doesn’t have hěn
Very w ò shì
Bedroom měi
beautiful dà
Big xiǎo
small 花园
游泳池
饭厅
阳台
书房
家
住在
有
没有
很
卧室
Other Vocabulary 美
大
小
Sentences n ǐ zhù zài nǎ l i
Where do you live? wǒ zhù zài
I live in/at…………. 你住在哪里？我住在 ………….。
wǒ zhùzài bái sè de fáng z i gōngyù
我住在白色的房子/ 公寓。
I live in a white house/apartment block. wǒ jiāyǒu
我家有 …………。
wǒ jiā méiyǒu
我家没有 ………。
wǒ jiā hěn
我家很 ……。
My home has……………. My home doesn’t have………… My home is very……………. I love my home wǒ à i wǒde jiā
我爱我的家。
Additional Vocabulary structures: Extension classes will learn additional vocabulary and structures including the following. chē k ù
车库
chǔcáng s h ì
储藏室
huāyuán
花园
Garage Storeroom Garden w ǒ z à i shūfáng kànshū
I’m in the study reading. m ā m ā z à i w ò shì shuìjiào
Mum is in the bedroom sleeping. mèimèi z à i fàn tīng chī fàn
Little sister is in the dining room eating. g ē g e zài c è suǒ x ǐ shǒu
Big brother is in the toilet washing his hands. Dad is in the garage cleaning the car. 我在书房看书。妈妈在卧室睡觉。
妹妹在饭厅吃饭。
哥哥在厕所洗手。
bàba zài chēkù x ǐ chē
爸爸在车库洗车。
Learning Activities 1.
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3. 4. 5. Various oral games aimed at developing fluency. Interactive/online games aimed at improving character recognition. Guessing game in pairs – 你在哪里？ Listening activity – Label the house. Writing activity: 我的家。 tǔ lóu
Hakka Roundhouses 土楼 The Hakka are an ethnic group living in the province of Fujian in the south east of China. There is one thing that sets the Hakka apart in China -‐ their architecture: they build enormous round communal houses called tulou. A tulou is a round or square-‐shaped home for an entire community, capable of housing hundreds of people. The oldest of the tulou is more than 600 years old. The Hakka, who have suffered much in China, built these unusual homes like fortresses as a way of defending themselves. The only doorway, which is several metres thick, enabled the Hakka to easily fight of invaders and to remain in control of their whole-‐village homes. Circular and up to four stories, most tulou are 10 metres high with the largest being almost 20 metres, and have a diameter of up to 77 metres. The walls are 1.5 metres thick and made of dried earth and brick. This means that the tulou are cool in summer and warm in winter. The tulou are built around a central courtyard, which serves as the village meeting place for the inhabitants and where they can live self-‐sufficiently for many months. In the middle of the tulou is the ancestral hall, the common space where the hundreds of inhabitants celebrate marriages and organize funerals. Everything is built in such a way so that the residents of the community practically never have to leave. There are still almost 400 such fortress-‐homes today. The windows of the tulou that look outward are very small in order to avoid all attacks. Each family occupies one vertical unit. The kitchens and bathrooms are on the ground floor, storage areas on the first floor, while the bedrooms are on the second and third floors. In the two floors of the outer circle, there are 30 to 50 rooms for guests. The tulou were classified in 2008 as World Heritage by UNESCO. Still little known outside of China, these unusual village houses are attracting more and more tourists from within China. fáng zi
房子
chú fáng
厨房
gōng yù
kè tīng
客厅
公寓
yù shì
浴室
cè suǒ
厕所
fàn tīng
shū fáng
yáng tái
wò shì
huā yuán
yóu yǒng chí
饭厅
卧室
书房
花园
阳台
游泳池