Unit title Hi Introducing yourself in Chinese Area

Unit title: 嗨！Hi! Introducing yourself in Chinese Area of interaction focus Significant concepts Which area of interaction will be our focus? Why have we chosen this? Human Ingenuity • The creation and use of language as a means of communicating. • Exploring grammatical patterns as a way of building and creating language. What are the big ideas? What do we want our students to retain for years into the future? Language is a foundation for everyday life, human interaction and general learning. Communication with others always depends on some form of language. MYP unit question How can we benefit from learning a foreign language? How is learning a symbol/character-based language different to learning an alphabet based language?

Greetings LO: • Learn phrases used when greeting people

nǐ hǎo 你好 hello

zǎoshang hǎo 早上好 good morning

zài jiàn 再见 goodbye

lǎoshī hǎo 老师好 hello teacher

máng bu máng 忙不忙? (Are you) busy

bù máng 不忙 not busy

hěn máng 很忙 very busy

Writing 1. Write out the 7 new phrases from page 十八。 2. Practise writing out each new character on the worksheet.

nǐ hǎo lǎoshī zǎo shang hǎo

máng bu máng zàijiàn

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