| 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 |
| Time suggested |
9 forty-five minutes lessons. |
| Character learning and reading skills focused objectives |
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 |
| 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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