MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
CHINESE II (MHS)
Authored by: Yong Sun
Reviewed by: Lee Nittel,
Director of Curriculum and Instruction
Stacy Snider
Supervisor of Visual & Performing Arts/World Language
Adopted by the Board: January, 2013
Members of the Board of Education:
Lisa Ellis, President
Patrick Rowe, Vice-President
David Arthur
Kevin Blair
Shade Grahling
Linda Gilbert
Thomas Haralampoudis
James Novotny
Superintendent: Dr. Michael Rossi
Madison Public Schools
359 Woodland Road, Madison, NJ 07940
www.madisonpublicschools.org
I. OVERVIEW
The course is designed for students who are non-native Chinese speakers, but have learned Chinese for one year.
The course will emphasize the development of communication skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
The primary goal of this course is to help students use Chinese to exchange information and to communicate
their ideas. In addition, students will build up their vocabulary thought the learning of Chinese characters. As a
result of this course, student should be able to read these characters fluently.
II. RATIONALE
New Jersey citizens are part of a dynamic, interconnected, and technologically driven global society centered on
the creation and communication of knowledge and ideas across geographical, cultural, and linguistic borders.
Individuals who effectively communicate in more than one language, with an appropriate understanding of
cultural contexts, are globally literate.
The study of another language and culture enables individuals to communicate face-to-face and by virtual means
in appropriate ways with people from diverse cultures. The study of another language fosters attitudes, values,
and skills that indicate a positive disposition and understanding of cultural differences and that enhance crosscultural communication.
III. GOALS (Linked to NJ Core Content Standards)
World Languages Standard 7.1:
All students will be able to use a world language in addition to English to engage in meaningful conversation, to
understand and interpret spoken and written language, and to present information, concepts, and ideas, while also
gaining an understanding of the perspectives of other cultures. Through language study, they will make connections with
other content areas, compare the language and culture studied with their own, and participate in home and global
communities.
Language learners can be expected to move through levels of proficiency at different rates. In addition, language
learners may demonstrate differing proficiencies depending upon the communicative mode in which they are
functioning (interpersonal, interpretive, or presentational). In Madison High School, students who are taking
Chinese II should meet the cumulative progress indicators for the Novice High Level of proficiency. Novice
High Level students communicate using words, lists, and simple sentences to ask and answer questions, to
handle simple transactions related to everyday life, and to talk about subject matter studied in other classes. By
the end of Chinese II, students will:
A Interpretive Mode
1. Recognize familiar words and phrases, understand the main idea, and infer the meaning of some highly
contextualized, unfamiliar spoken or written words contained in culturally authentic materials using
electronic information sources related to targeted themes.
2. Demonstrate comprehension of a series of oral and written directions, commands, and requests through
appropriate physical response.
3. Recognize some common gestures and cultural practices associated with target culture(s).
4. Identify people, places, objects, and activities in daily life based on oral or written descriptions.
5. Demonstrate comprehension of short conversations and brief written messages on familiar topics.
6. Identify the main idea and other significant ideas in readings from age- and level-appropriate, culturally
authentic materials.
B. Interpersonal Mode
1. Use digital tools to exchange basic information by recombining memorized words, phrases, and
sentences on topics related to self and targeted themes.
2. Give and follow a series of oral and written directions, commands, and requests for participating in ageand level- appropriate classroom and cultural activities.
3. Imitate appropriate gestures, intonation, and common idiomatic expressions of the target
culture(s)/language during daily interactions.
4. Ask and respond to questions, make requests, and express preferences in various social situations.
5. Converse on a variety of familiar topics and/or topics studied in other content areas.
C. Presentational Mode
1. Recombine basic information at the word and sentence level related to self and targeted themes to create
a multimedia-rich presentation to be shared virtually with a target language audience.
2. Create and present brief messages, poems, rhymes, songs, short plays, or role-plays using familiar
vocabulary orally or in writing.
3. Describe in writing people and things from the home and school environment.
4. Tell or retell stories from age- and level-appropriate, culturally authentic materials orally or in writing.
5. Tell or write about cultural products associated with the target culture(s), and simulate common cultural
practices.
World Languages Standard 7.2:
All students will demonstrate an understanding of the perspectives of a culture(s) through experiences with its products
and practices
A Interpretive Mode
1. Compare daily practices of people in the target culture(s) with their own. (cf. social studies standards)
2. Describe the geographical features, types and effects of climate in countries where the target language is
spoken. (cf. social studies standards)
3. Identify common tangible and intangible cultural products of the target culture(s). (cf. social studies
standards)
B. Interpersonal Mode
1. Interact in everyday social situations using culturally appropriate etiquette in verbal and non-verbal
communication
2. Participate in a variety of oral and/or written activities after listening to and/or reading age- appropriate,
culturally authentic selections. (cf. language arts literacy standards)
C. Presentational Mode
1. Compare and contrast similarities and differences between tangible products of the target culture(s) and
their own. (cf. social studies standards)
2. Describe and reproduce expressive products of the target culture(s). (cf. visual and performing arts
standards)
3. Participate in activities related to special events celebrated in the target culture(s) and make comparisons
with the U.S. (cf. social studies standards)
IV. CONTENT OUTLINE
Unit 1
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Communication Goals:
Ask and tell what time it is
Explain someone’s daily schedule
Ask and tell what day it is
Name the days of the week
Name the days of the month
Ask and tell what month it is
Ask and tell the date
Inquire about and explain someone’s plan for week, month and year
Ask and tell what season it is
Ask and tell what the weather is like
Compare the difference of the weather
Express someone’s opinion about the season and weather
Explain the climate
Recite some children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
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Culture:
Geography in China
Weather in China
Chinese lunar calendar
When the new week starts in China
Daily routine for Chinese people
Chinese songs, poems, riddles, limericks and twisters
Chinese traditional instrument
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Structure:
Pronoun, noun and verbs
Adverbs, such as: 最近，最， 常常，可能......
Adjective, such as: 忙，冷，热......
Numbers
Structure of Chinese characters
Measure words, such as: 把，点，件
Sentence patterns:
跟...... 一起
...... 打算......
...... 怎么样......
...... 觉得......
D. Reading / Writing:
Reading:
1. Reading for information
2. Making summary
3. Retelling the story
4. Recite children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
Writing:
1. Make a calendar
2. Make a Chinese movie poster
3. Chart the weather for the week
4. Make a weather map
5. Make a weekly schedule
6. Write a letter to friend for explaining the weather
Unit 2
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Communication Goals:
Say they are hungry
Say that they are thirsty
Ask and tell someone’s needs
Order and take an order at a café or restaurant
Distinguish different measure words for dish
Ask and tell how much something costs
Inquire about and tell about the sum of money
Express comparisons about colors and clothing
Talk about clothing sizes
Ask for other’s opinion on something
Tell the opinion on something
Inquire about and give reasons
Ask about someone’s favorite color and cloth
Tell about someone’s favorite color and cloth
Distinguish different measure words for clothing
Describe the features of someone
Recite some children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
B.
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Culture:
Chinese foods
Chinese money
Chinese restaurant
Chinese traditional holiday
Chinese super markets
Department stores
Chinese favorite colors
Chinese fashion
Chinese traditional clothing, such as: qí páo
The feathers of Chinese people, such as black hair, yellow skin, etc.
Chinese songs, poems, riddles, limericks and twisters
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Structure:
Pronoun, noun and verbs
Adverbs:
Adjective, such as: 男的，长的，白色的......
Structure of Chinese characters
Measure words, such as 盒，瓶，各，百，包，块，碗， 元， 件，条，双
Sentence patterns:
一点儿
因为......
Verb + 什么......
...... 还是 ......
如果......
是...... 的
D. Reading / Writing:
Reading:
1. Reading for information
2. Making summary
3. Make conversations
4. Recite children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
Writing:
1. Make a restaurant menu
2. Make a shopping list
3. Create a conversation at department store
4. Describe a classmate
Unit 3
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Communication goals:
Talk about body parts
Inquire someone’s physical conditions
Tell someone’s physical conditions
Say ordinal number
Ask and tell someone could do something
Ask and tell what someone is doing
Ask for and give directions with commands
Talk about the exact location
Ask and tell someone’s favorite sports
Ask and tell someone’s holiday or vacation plan
Describe the process and scene of an activity
Recite some children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
B.
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Culture:
Popular sports in China
School in China
Hospital in China
Famous and important cities in China
Famous sport teams and persons in China
The holidays in China
Chinese songs, poems, riddles, limericks and twisters
C. Structure:
1. Pronoun, noun and verbs
2. Adverbs， such as: 特别, 经常， 别......
3. Adjective, such as: 疼，舒服，少，凉快......
4. Structure of Chinese characters
5. Prefix – indicating ordinal numbers
6. Sentence patterns:
有点儿......
会......
要是......
在......
去...... ( V.)
...... 有......
D. Reading / Writing:
Reading:
1. Reading for information
2. Making summary
3. Make conversations
4. Recite children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
Writing:
1. Write two paragraphs to introduce his/her sports team
2. Draw the direction and describe how to get the school from home
3. Make a plan for the summer vacation
4. Write a postcard to a friend
Unit 4
A. Communication Goals:
1. Ask and tell someone’s occupation
2. Ask and tell where someone works
3. Ask and tell someone’s job status
4. Talk about the felling about someone’s job
5. Talk about what kind of job they want or don’t want
6. Talk about what kind of job someone can do
7. Talk about employer
8. Ask and tell the transportation someone takes for working
9. Ask and tell the transportation someone takes for traveling
10. Express comparison of the transportation
11. Ask and tell travel schedule
12. Ask and tell someone’s travel plan
13. Recite some children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
B.
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Culture:
The most important transportation in China
Famous historic cities in China
Chinese songs, poems, riddles, limericks and twisters
C. Structure:
1. Pronoun, noun and verbs
2. Adverbs, such as: 天天，每天......
3. Adjective, such as: 慢，快......
4. Structure of Chinese characters
5. Measure words, such as: 个，口，家，辆，架......
6. Sentence patterns:
从......到......
先......然后......
......比......
......更......
......最......
D. Reading / Writing:
Reading:
1. Reading for information
2. Making summary
3. Make conversations
4. Recite children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
Writing:
1. Write a paragraph to introduce your family member’s occupation
2. Create an itinerary for your trip
3. Make a train station schedule
4. Make a travel plan for weekend
5. Composition
V. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
A. Communication Goals:
Objective: Students will be able to
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Express time, day, week, month and year
Express four seasons of the year
Express weather and climate
Explain opinion, needs and plan
Order food and explain the feeling about the food
Say Chinese money
Discuss and compare colors and clothing
Talk about the size for clothing
Describe the features of someone
Explain the reasons
Describe the parts of body
Discuss someone’s physical conditions
Use ordinal number
Talk about location
Talk about sports
Talk about holiday and vacation
Express occupation and job status
Talk about employer
Talk about transportation
Distinguish and use different measure words
Recite some children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
Activities: Students will be able to
1. Pair practices (dialogues)
2. Interview a partner
3. Group work
4. Role play
5. Reading and writing compositions
6. Complete teacher-made class work and homework
7. Sing Chinese song
8. Recite children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
9. Write a letter or postcard to friend
10. Make a schedule for school sports event
11. Make a plan for vacation
12. Complete teacher-made work sheets
13. Complete exercises on the workbook
14. Game
Jeopardy
Chain game
Bingo
Go fishing
Magic cards
B. Culture:
Objective: Students will be able to
1. Understand the geography in China
2. Learn about the weather in China
3. Learn about Chinese lunar calendar
4. Understand the daily routine for Chinese people
5. Learn about Chinese songs, poems, riddles, limericks and twisters
6. Gain the knowledge about Chinese traditional instrument
7. Review Chinese food
8. Review Chinese money
9. Review Chinese holiday
10. Talk about the schools in China
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Learn about Chinese traditional clothing
Understand the feathers of Chinese people
Discuss popular sports in China
Learn about Chinese historic cities
Talk about popular transportations in China
Activities: Students will be able to
1. Make a Chinese lunar calendar
2. List the similarities and differences between Spring festival and Christmas
3. Watch video about the schools in China
4. Learn to make Chinese food
5. See a PingPeng game
6. City tour in China
7. Watch Chinese concert
8. Power point for Chinese traditional instrument
9. Complete teacher-made work sheets
10. Complete exercises on the workbook
11. Sing Chinese song
12. Recite children’s songs, Chinese ancient poems, riddles, limerick and tongue twister
C. Structure:
Objective: Students will be able to
1. Use appropriate pronoun, noun and verbs
2. Use appropriate adverbs and adjectives
3. Count numbers
4. Write Chinese characters step by step
5. Use corresponding measure words
6. Use ordinal numbers
7. Use sentence patterns:
跟...... 一起; ...... 打算...... ; ...... 怎么样...... ; ...... 觉得...... ;
...... 怎么样...... ; ...... 觉得...... ; 有点儿......; 会......; 要是......; 在......; 去...... ( V.); ......
有......; 从......到......; 先......然后......; ......比......; ......更......; ......最......
Activities: Students will be able to
1. Label and describe pictures and paintings
2. Make original sentences with vocabularies
3. Fill in blanks on verb activities or adverb activities
4. Complete sentences or dialogues
5. Answer questions
6. Write a letters or poster
7. Make a plan or schedule
8. Write a composition
9. Game for vocabularies and sentences
10. Complete teacher-made work sheets
11. Complete the exercises on workbooks
D. Reading / Writing:
Objective: Students will be able to
1. Read text aloud
2. Read and comprehension
3. Retell the story or event
4. Describe the detailed procedure for a event
5. Make flash cards
6. Writing a letter/postcards/ composition
7. Write a plan or schedule
Activities: Students will be able to
1. Answer questions based on the material read
2. Role - play
3. Writing/Speech Contest
4. Presentation
5. Complete sentences or dialogues
6. Complete a dialogue or story
7. Retell a story or event
8. Write a composition
9. Complete teacher-made work sheets
10. Complete the exercises on workbooks
VI. EVALUATION
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Vocabulary quizzes
Grammar quizzes
Lesson tests
Writing, reading, speaking, and
listening proficiency test
Midterm exam and Final exam
Classroom teacher observation
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In Class student dialogues
Class work
Homework
Evaluation checklist
Student feedback form
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DVD
Chinese city tours
Chinese film
Learn to speak Chinese
Internet
VII. RESOURCES
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Textbook – Learn Chinese with Me
Student Workbook
CD accompany text book
Supplementary book – Chinese
Made Easy
CD - Sing Songs to learn Chinese
Teacher-made materials
Madison School District
Chinese II MHS Scope and Sequence
Unit of Study
Key Vocabulary/ Language
in Use
Activities/Assessment/Project
Cultural Connections
Related Literature, Video,
and Songs
Unit 1
Time, Season
and Year
(Marking
Period #1)
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Ask and tell what time it is
Explain someone’s daily
schedule
Ask and tell what day it is
Name the days of the week
Name the days of the
month
Telling months
Ask and tell the date
Inquire about and explain
someone’s plan for week,
month and year
Ask and tell what season it
is
Ask and tell what the
weather is like
Compare the difference of
the weather
Express someone’s opinion
about the season and
weather
Explain the climate
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Pair practice (dialogues)
Interview a partner
Group work
Role play
Competition
Reading and writing contest
Write compositions
Complete teacher-made class
work and homework
Make a clock
Make a list about your daily
routine
Interview partner for his/her
schedule for yesterday, today
and tomorrow
Make a Chinese lunar calendar
Make a Chinese movie poster
Chart the week’s weather
Make a weather map
Write a letter to friend to
explain the weather
Sing Chinese song
Recite children’s songs,
Chinese ancient poems,
riddles, limerick and tongue
twister
Game
• Jeopardy
• Chain game
• Bingo
• Go fishing
• Magic cards
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Geography in China
Weather in China
Chinese lunar calendar
When the new week starts in
China
Daily routine for Chinese
people
Chinese songs, poems, riddles,
limericks and twisters
Chinese traditional instrument
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Textbook – Learn Chinese
with Me
Workbook accompany
textbook
CD accompany text book
Supplementary book –
Chinese Made Easy
CD - Sing Songs to learn
Chinese
Teacher-made materials
DVD
▫ Chinese city tours
▫ Chinese film
▫ Learn to speak
Chinese
Internet
Unit 2
Food and
Clothing
(Marking
Period #2)
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Say they are hungry
Say that they are thirsty
Ask and tell someone’s
needs
Order and take an order at a
café or restaurant
Distinguish different
measure words for dishes
Ask and tell how much
something costs
Inquire about and tell about
the sum of money
Express comparisons
Ask for other’s opinion on
something
Tell the opinion on
something
Inquire about and give
reasons
Ask about someone’s
favorite color and cloth
Tell about someone’s
favorite color and cloth
Distinguish different
measure words for clothing
Describe the features of
someone
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Role play
Complete teacher-made class
work and homework
At café - order foods
list the similarities and
differences between Spring
festival and Christmas
Interview your group member
and find out what kind of
foods they like
Make a shopping list
At supermarket
Fashion design
Describe your classmate –
others take a guess who she/he
is
Create a conversation at
department store
Recite children’s songs,
Chinese ancient poems,
riddles, limerick and tongue
twister
Game
• Jeopardy
• Chain game
• Bingo
• Go fishing
• Magic cards
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Chinese foods
Chinese money
Chinese restaurant
Chinese traditional holiday
Chinese super markets
Department stores
Chinese favorite colors
Chinese fashion
Chinese traditional clothing,
such as: qí páo
The features of Chinese people,
such as black hair, yellow skin,
etc.
Unit 3
Sports and
Health
(Marking
Period #3)
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Talk about body parts
Inquire someone’s physical
conditions
Tell someone’s physical
conditions
Say ordinal number
Ask and tell someone could
do something
Ask and tell what someone
is doing
Ask for and give directions
with commands
Talk about the exact
location
Ask and tell someone’s
favorite sports
Ask and tell someone’s
holiday or vacation plan
Describe the process and
scene of an activity
Recite some children’s
songs, Chinese ancient
poems, riddles, limerick
and tongue twister
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Role play
Complete teacher-made class
work and homework
Draw a human body and label
each parts
Interview – find favorite sports
Make a schedule for school
sports event
Draw a map – describe the
direction from your home to
school
Magic cards to create
sentences
Make a plan for your summer
vacation
Write a postcard to your friend
Chinese competition in the
forbidden city
Chinese words reorganization
contest
Recite children’s songs,
Chinese ancient poems,
riddles, limerick and tongue
twister
Game
• Jeopardy
• Chain game
• Bingo
• Go fishing
• Magic cards
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Popular sports in China
School in China
Hospital in China
Famous and important cities in
China
Famous sport teams and
persons in China
The holidays in China
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Unit 4
Occupation and
Transportation
(Marking
Period #4)
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Ask and tell someone’s
occupation
Ask and tell where
someone works
Ask and tell someone’s job
status
Talk about the felling about
someone’s job
Talk about what kind of job
they want or don’t want
Talk about what kind of job
someone can do
Talk about employer
Ask and tell the
transportation someone
takes for working
Ask and tell the
transportation someone
takes for traveling
Compare the difference of
transportation
Ask and tell travel schedule
Ask and tell someone’s
travel plan
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Role play
Complete teacher-made class
work and homework
Brainstorming
Label the picture for
occupations
Label the pictures for
transportations
Write a paragraph to introduce
your family member’s
occupation
Create a itinerary for your trip
Make a train station schedule
Make a travel plan for
weekend
Composition
Game
• Jeopardy
• Chain game
• Bingo
• Go fishing
• Magic cards
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Jobs in China
The most important
transportation in China
Famous historic cities in China