| Theme |
Shopping for Clothing: What should I wear? |
| Unit Overview |
You are an exchange student in Beijing. It’s going to be your first time spending Chinese New Year there. Your host family will take you shopping for Chinese New Year. You will need to learn how to dress for the special occasion and shop within your limited budget. |
| Enduring Understanding |
Our culture and the local conditions in which we live determines the way we dress. |
| Essential Questions |
- What factors influence the way we dress?
- What factors influence the way we shop for clothing?
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| Objectives |
- Students will be able to shop for clothing for special occasions using proper vocabulary and sentence structures;
- Students will be able to read clothing advertisements to obtain information about prices and sales;
- students will be able to use the target vocabulary in characters to create an advertising poster.
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| Targeted students |
8th grade middle school students, non-heritage students |
| Language Proficiency |
Writing - students have learned 100 characters
Reading - novice high
Speaking – intermediate low |
| Time suggested |
9 forty-five minutes lessons. |
| Can-do Statements Based on National Standards |
Communication:
Interpretive Communication: I can read information about prices, clothing items on sales ads.
Presentational Communication: I can describe my clothing, including colors, sizes and prices.
Interpersonal Communication: I can negotiate prices and make appropriate purchases.
Community, Culture, and Comparisons: I can identify the traditional dresses for Chinese New Year.
Connections: I can negotiate prices and make purchases within my budget. I can calculate sales discounts. |
| Character learning and reading skills focused |
Character teaching: radicals, recurring components, character configuration, stroke order of characters:
部首：衣，扌
部件： 巾，彡，斤
汉字构造：top-down and left-right configuration
组词：大衣，上衣，雨衣，雪衣，睡衣, 泳衣,毛衣
衣服广告词：打折，买一送一，大特价，讨价还价 |
| Summative Assessment |
- Presentational Writing:
Students create clothing sales-ads posters for a mock “秀水街” shopping spree.
- Interpersonal Speaking:
Students take turn to play the roles of sellers and buyers in a mock shopping spree. Sellers are required to make sales and buyers need to purchase with clothing items. They have to negotiate prices.
- Interpretive Reading:
- Students have to read the sales posters and make the purchase.
- Students post the description and photo of the purchased times online. Every student is required to view the description and provide personal comments.
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| Teaching Materials |
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| Grammatical Structures |
- 有的...有的...
- progressive structure: 在+ action verb
- 太...了
- 量词：件，条，双，顶
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| Focused Characters |
- 衣部：衬，衫，裤，裙，帽
- 衣服广告词：打折
- 量词：件，条，双，顶
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| Vocabulary |
Expressions on sales ads: 打折，买一送一，
Measure words for clothing 量词：件，条，双，顶 |
