Lesson Development Organizer

Lesson Title:___ Fruits_____________

Teacher’s Name: _Marie Meyer_ Grade(s): 2nd semester for 9th grade

Students already learned the following vocabulary:

Colors （颜色）:
喜欢。。。。。xǐ huān （like）
不喜欢。。。。bù xǐ huān (dislike)
红。。。。。。hóng (red)
橙。。。。。。chéng (orange)
黄。。。。。。huáng (yellow)
绿。。。。。。lù (green)
蓝。。。。。。lán (blue)
青。。。。。。qīng (indigo)
紫。。。。。。zǐ (purple)
黑。。。。。。hēi (black)
白。。。。。。bái (white)
Family members （家人）:
爸爸。。。。。 bà ba (father)
妈妈。。。。。 mā ma (mother)
哥哥。。。。。 gē ge (older brother)
姐姐。。。。。 jiě jie (older sister)
弟弟。。。。。 dì di (Younger brother)
妹妹。。。。。 mèi mei (Younger sister)
我。。。。。。 wǒ (I)
老师。。。。。 lǎo shī (teacher)
The numbers from 0-100.

Type of Chinese Class: Beginning Chinese 1 at High school

Objective(s):

 Students can identify and name 10 different fruits (apple, banana, cherry, grape, orange, pear,
pineapple, peach, strawberry, watermelon).
 Student can describe the fruit with the appropriate color.
 Students can describe what fruit they like or dislike.
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  Students can exchange information about favorite fruits among the other students.
 Students can present a skit of fruit shopping at the supermarket.

Lesson:(What are the steps?)

Step 1 (5 minutes): presents a short story about buying the fruit at the supermarket. （with real
fruits）; (Material):带一个篮子和十种不同的水果。

因为我的家人很想吃水果沙拉， 所以今天我要去大华超级市场买水果。在大华超级市场里, 我看到了很多不同的水果。我买了五个苹果。。。。，四个梨。。。。。七根

香蕉。。。。。一个凤梨。。和。。。六个桃子。。。。现在是夏天，所以草莓。。。，西瓜。。。。，葡萄 。。。。, 橘子。。。和樱桃…….也都很便宜。 因为
我的家人和朋友都很喜欢吃我做的水果沙拉， 所以我很高兴做给他们吃。

老师可以再表演一次。。才问下面的问题。。（要学生注意听问题）

谁知道今天我一共买了几种不同的水果？ 。。。。。。。。 大家一起来数一数有几种不同的水果。。。一，二，三，四，五，六，七，八， 九，十。。。。。。一共是

十种水果。

现在我们要复习一下我们学过的家人部份。。。
Step 2 (5 minutes): learn new vocabulary (10 fruits).

Teacher says: 看到了这么多新鲜的水果， 我感到饿了，很想吃水果。我很喜欢吃梨。。, （对着一位学生问） 你喜欢吃梨吗？And then teacher

can use the family members (see appendix D) as the subjects to construct a few new sentences. (老
师说) 爸爸。。。喜欢吃苹果，（问学生）你喜欢吃苹果吗？（老师再说）妈妈。。。喜欢吃葡萄？（对着另外一位学生说）你喜欢吃葡萄吗？哥哥。。。喜欢吃草莓, 你
喜欢吃草莓。。 吗？ 姐姐。。。喜欢吃西瓜 , 你喜欢吃西瓜 吗? 弟弟。。。喜欢吃 葡萄, 你喜欢吃葡萄吗？ 妹妹。。。喜欢吃橘子, 你喜欢吃橘子 吗？ 我。。
喜欢吃樱桃, 你喜欢吃樱桃吗？ 我。。。也喜欢吃香蕉, 你喜欢吃香蕉 吗?
复习过了家人喜欢吃的水果，我们可以玩宾果游戏。。。
Step 3 (6 minutes): Bingo game 这是什么？（Appendix A-1, A-2, A-3）

In order to let students familiar with the new fruits vocabularies, we do the following bingo
game to learn the vocabularies as a practice activity:
Every student has a copy of the Bingo sheet (refer to appendix A-1, A-2, A-3) and then teacher calls
out the fruit to play the bingo game as a hands-on game to reinforce the new vocabularies.

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Step 4 (4 minutes): To describe the fruit with the appropriate color (student learned colors
before).

Teacher asks the following questions to describe the fruit with the color as the review of the colors
and familiar with the new fruit vocabularies:
例如：（老师可以问下面的问题）。。。“这个苹果是什么颜色?” 。 “这是绿色的香蕉吗？“。“这是紫色的葡萄吗？““这个橘子是什么颜色？”。 “西瓜是什么颜
色”？“凤梨是红色的吗？”

接下来，我们来练习两个句型： 喜欢。。。 和 。。不喜欢。。。。

Step 5: (5 minutes) Paired- group activity on sentence practice (Appendix B)

Two students (as a partner) practice on the fruits that they like or dislike with the hand-out sheet
(Appendix B). Students use these two sentences to practice with the fruit vocabularies: 你喜欢吃什么水果？
我喜欢吃西瓜。。。。。

当两人一组的练习完成后，就请学生站起来做课堂团体活动。。。
Step 6: (10 minutes): Group-activity (Appendix C - Survey sheet)-paper and writing tool
All of the students are divided into two groups (A & B). Team A students face the Team B students to
form two lines. Each student has a copy of the survey sheet (Appendix C) to ask the question listed
on Appendix C. One student from the end of Team A moves to the other end after one question is
asked and then two different students face each other ask and answer the same question. After all of
the questions been asked, and then students can go on to the next activity.

Step 7: (5 minutes): To share the survey information.

After the group-activity (survey) finished, teacher asks one of the students who like to eat apple,
banana, pear, and pineapple, strawberry, and grape, watermelon, orange, cherry and peach. 老师问一位
同学：谁喜欢吃苹果？ The student answers the question from his/her own survey sheet. 同学回答说：小花喜欢吃葡萄。
And then teacher continues to ask different student to answer one of the 10 questions from the
survey sheet.

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Step 8: (10 minutes): Small group skit presentation and homework.

The whole class can be divided into a few small groups to do a skit presentation. Each group
performs a fruit shopping at supermarket skit. One student does the recording of the skit
performance in the classroom and posts it into the wikispaces and then each team can go to the
wikispaces website to type out the skit as a part of the participation score. The other part of the
homework is to practice writing and making 10 sentences with the 10 new fruits.

Culture notes:

Pear: Pears shouldn't be split by two people (fen1 li2 = split apart). (分梨：分离) 。But this could be avoided by
cutting the pair on a cloth (bu4 fen1 li2 = won't split apart). （布分梨：不分离）
Peach: Traditional birthday cake in Chinese is the peach- look buns. (寿桃)
Watermelon: Chinese eat watermelon seeds and even have watermelon seeds spit contest.
“Watermelon tai chi” is a very popular tai chi movement. (一个大西瓜，分成两半，这一半给你，那一半给我。吃饱了，很高兴。)

Assessment:
(How will you know that students have met your objectives for the lesson?)
1. Students can count the total fruits that we are going to learn.
2. Students can answer the question with “like” or “dislike”.
3. Students can understand and repeat the 10 new fruits.
4. Students can describe the fruit with color.
5. Students can ask and answer his/her favorite fruit.
6. Students can exchange the information about who likes to eat a particular fruit on the survey
sheet.
7. Students can share the survey information. .
8. Students can present a shopping fruit at supermarket.
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APPENDIX A-1 (Bingo sheet)
Name ____________________

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 Fruit Bingo A

APPENDIX A-2 (Bingo sheet)

Name ____________________

Fruit Bingo B

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APPENDIX A-3 (Bingo sheet)

Name ____________________

Fruit Bingo C
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Appendix B 水果 （shuǐ guǒ）
你喜欢吃什么水果？ 我喜欢吃。。。。。。。

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 píng guǒ xiāng jiāo yīng táo
（苹果） （香蕉） （樱桃）

pú táo jú zi lí
（葡萄） （橘子） （梨）

fèng lí cǎo méi xī guā táo zi

（凤梨） （草莓） （西瓜） (桃子)

Appendix C:
Survey sheet -问一问，谁喜欢吃什么？
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1．_________喜欢吃 苹果 ( píng guǒ ) 。

2. ________ 喜欢吃 桃子 (táo zi ).

3.__________喜欢吃 香蕉 ( xiāng jiāo ).

4._________ 喜欢吃 草莓 (cǎo méi ).

5._________ 喜欢吃 梨( lí ).

6._________ 喜欢吃 橘子( jú zi ).

7._________ 喜欢吃 樱桃(yīng táo).

8._________ 喜欢吃 西瓜( xī guā ).

9._________ 喜欢吃 葡萄(pú táo).

10.________ 喜欢吃凤梨 ( fèng lí)

Appendix D: Family members

（All of the pictures were downloaded from Google imagines）

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爸爸 妈妈

哥哥 姐姐 老师

妹妹 弟弟 我

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