In this session, the presenters explained how to design meaningful task-based activities to help students reach their learning goals. They also demonstrated when to deliver focused tasks and unfocused tasks to successfully reach the Can-Do statements.
The power of task based activity effectively fulfill the can-do statements - Teaching Chinese
1. THE POWER OF TASK- BASED ACTIVITY
Winnie Tung 童文妍 Prospect High School Saratoga, CA ACTFL 11-20-2014 Houston, TX
Effectively Fulfill the Can-Do Statement Part 2
11. CH1/CH2 Write your answers on another side of the name card for the following questions
1.What did you do this summer?
2.What is the interesting fact about you ? e.g. Speech & Debate captain, TV-ad star
3.What is the favorite thing(s) you like to do?
4.What do you do your best work? (in group, with partner, or myself)
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Questions: free response
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12. Write your answers on another side of the name card for the following questions
1.電話號碼是幾號?
2.Lucky number是幾號?
3.Predict five lucky numbers for next MEGA lottery.
4.你喜歡什麼顏色?
5.夏天時,你喜歡穿什麼?
6.你喜歡買什麼配件?
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Questions: thematical topic
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14. Direction:
1.List vocabulary words for the unit, with the hardest ones on top and the easiest on the bottom.
2.Work in pair. First they decide whether they want to practice from Chinese to English or vice versa.
Vocabulary Ladders 步步高升
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15. 4. Starting on the bottom word. Student A begins saying the word, If Student A is correct, then goes the one above it, trying to climb to the top of the ladder.
5.If Student A misses one, he/she has “fallen off” the ladder, the paper is turned around, and student B tries to climb it.
6.Whoever gets to the top first wins.
Vocabulary Ladders 步步高升
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32. Fish Bowl
Participants
• Share your ideas
• Listening carefully
• Respond to others
Observers
•Write down every point that your fishbowl partner addresses
•You don’t participate in the discussion
Inner Cycle
Outer Cycle
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33. Fish bowl rubric
Points
Contribution
Points off
Negative comments
2
Making a relevant comment
3
Not paying attention
2
Making an analogy relevant to the discussion
3
Distracting others
2
Using supporting evidence or factual info to strengthen your opinion
3
Interrupting without cause
2
Making a connection between culture and the text
3
Irrelevant comment
2
Pointing out literary elements
3
Personal attack
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