2 2 w de xio mo My little

2. 2: 我的小猫 wǒ de xiǎo māo My little cat Jinbu 1 Chapter 2, Unit 2 以 前 学 过 的 Institute of Education IOE Confucius Institute for Schools chǒng wù 汉 字 Practise word order of Chinese sentences describing pets Learn how to say the date Learn how to say: my, your, his/her Learn how to say when somebody’s birthday is Adapted from lessons donated by colleagues at Dartford Grammar School fēi cháng Can you add the English? Can you use them in a sentence?

Why are the characters in the box in the following order? a. 一 b. 小 c. 只 d. 有 e. 我 f. 狗 Give a reason, then put them in the correct order to make a sentence. Reason: They are in the order of stroke order – 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 Correct order: e d a c b f

Team Sentence Organising 一 My father has two big fish 二 My mother has three small dogs 三 My elder sister has one extremely big cat 四 My elder brother has two very small birds 五 My family has five people 六 I have one younger sister, one younger brother

我是一只小小鸟 • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Iv 3 ECRn 7 Axg& feature=related

Date LO: • Practise word order of Chinese sentences describing pets • Learn how to say the date • Learn how to say: my, your, his/her • Learn how to say when somebody’s birthday is

yuè 月 month (moon)

sān yuè 三月 March

bā yuè 八月 August

rì 日 date (sun)

Chinese date = Month + Date 四月二十二日 22 nd April

Chinese date = Month + Date 九月三十日 th 30 September

写 yuè rì 月 日 month (moon) date (sun) Grammar To say the month or date in Chinese, just put the correct number before the character for month/date. To say the date in Chinese, always put the month before the day: Chinese date = Month + Date EXT: Write today’s date in Chinese and pinyin.

阅读 • 第二十四页， 练习一。 EXT：Write the pinyin for each date given.

听力 • 第二十四页， 练习二。 • EXT= Write the characters for each date you hear.

Date LO: • Practise word order of Chinese sentences describing pets • Learn how to say the date • Learn how to say: my, your, his/her • Learn how to say when somebody’s birthday is

de 的 possessive marker

nǐ de 你的 your

tā de 他的 his

shēng rì 生日 birthday

shì 是 is

jīn tiān 今天 today

Practice each character at least 5 times: rì yuè jīn shēng de Extension 1: Test your memory: cover, write, check. Extension 2: write a word that contains each character. For example, for 你, you would write 你好.

写 Write out the new words below in your vocab book and copy the grid explaining the use of 的. shēngrì shì 生日 是 birthday is EXT: Write out when your or members of your family’s birthdays are using the following dates: 4 February 12 October 14 July

Date LO: • Practise word order of Chinese sentences describing pets • Learn how to say the date • Learn how to say: my, your, his/her • Learn how to say when somebody’s birthday is