Theme |
Best Friends Forever (一生的好朋友) |
Unit Overview |
McDonald is looking for two friends to feature in their summer advertising campaign. Since this is an international company they are seeking application from all language students, especially Chinese. The application must include an essay about a pair of friend’s friendship formed by joining a club, displaying their common interests, and a photo. The winning pair will receive an all expense-covered trip to Shanghai, China, for video filming and tour. |
Objectives |
1. Describe one’s interests and hobbies.
2. Express and explain one’s preferences in extracurricular activities.
3. Narrate the experience of becoming good friends with someone.
4. Compare current practices for promoting extracurricular clubs in Taiwan with those of the United States.
5. Compare the current conventions of finding extracurricular clubs and groups in China with those of the United States.
6. Use the following the vocabulary skill: word expansion.
7. Use the following reading skills: word segmentation, lexical access, scanning, skimming, rauding, learning, memorizing, predicting, inferring, asking questions and summarizing. |
Targeted students |
Student: 9th - 12th grade
Proficiency Level: Intermediate-Low, non-heritage background |
Time
Suggested |
- 50-minute class periods
- 10 class periods most likely for implementing the complete unit including all four language skills and three modes. The following unit plan only pertains to interpretive reading and some formative writing and one summative presentational writing assessment.
- This lesson plan includes four written texts for reading: 豆瓣小组(a social media posting), 校园海报(campus postings), 我的好朋友, and two essays我的好朋友 and 我的最佳球友.
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