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Lesson Plan

I Don’t Feel Well

我不舒服

Jingjing Wu

吴静静

Lomond Elementary School

Shaker Heights City School District, OH

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我不舒服

I Don’t Feel Well

Subject and grade level:

Mandarin Chinese

3rd Grade

Goal:

Students would know how to tell a Chinese doctor about their problems

when they don’t feel well.

Instructional Objectives:

Students will be able to:

remember how to write from 1—10 with their body.

say all the body parts in Chinese by touching their body parts.

sing a Chinese song about the body parts.

recognize the Chinese Characters by reading the flash cards.

have a conversation about seeing a Chinese doctor.

Materials:

handouts for the conversation about seeing the doctor

Smart Board

Projector

Flash cards

Doctors’ coats ( if time allows, we will get students to wear doctor’s

coat and act out the conversation.)

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Teaching Procedures:

Pre-assessment:

Students will listen to a piece of music and try to find out what body

parts they can hear from the song while the teacher is still greeting to

the students at the door.

Step 1: Greetings

1. Teachers will greet to students by asking them how they are.

2. Teacher will ask student what day it is today. Then we will review the

seven days of the week.

3. Teacher will review how to write from one to ten with students after

finished reviewing the seven days of the week.

4. Teacher and the students will do the Number Kungfu which is the

Chinese writing of the numbers together to reinforce the writing of

the ten numbers.

Step 2: Review

1. Review how to say the body parts

Teacher will touch her own body parts and ask students what they

are in Chinese.

Students will answer it individually/together.

While we are reviewing the words, we will say two chants that

related with body parts. One is “ Two tigers” and another one is

“ Little rabbit”

Two tigers is about two tigers that one has no ears and one has no

tails. They are very strange.

The little rabbit is a poem about the cute rabbit who has two big

ears and white fur. It also talks about their eating habits.

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Students will also chant and sing the song about the “ head,

shoulders, knees and toes”

Students will present their songs in groups if time allows. ( Red

table and yellow table will present together, green table and blue

table will present together.)

2. Review the Chinese characters of the body parts.

Teacher will show student the flash cards that have Chinese words

of the body parts on and ask students to read it, at the same time,

the students are required to touch the right body parts while they

are reading the words on the card.

3． An activity to do if time allows:

If the students say the words right, the teacher will give the card

to the students.

In this class, two students will have the cards that have the same

words one, then, the teacher will say a Chinese word, whoever

can recognize the Chinese words with the pronunciation will stand

up, whoever stand up first will get a point.

Step 3: Teaching new vocabularies and a conversation

1. New vocabularies and expressions

医院 hospital

医生 doctor

病人 patient

你哪儿不舒服？ What’s wrong with you?

我 _____ 疼。 My ______ hurts.

我看看。 Let me check.

给你处方。 Here’s your prescription.

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2. The Conversation:

Please see the Attachment 1

3. Drills

Teacher will practice the new words and expressions that listed in

1. New vocabularies and expressions with students by showing

them the picture on Smart Board and using TPR.

I have a stomach-ache.我肚子疼。 Wŏ dù zi téng.

I have a headache. 我头疼。 Wŏ tóu téng.

My eyes hurt. 我眼睛疼。 Wŏ yăn jing téng.

My ear hurts. 我耳朵疼。 Wŏ ěr duo téng.

My nose hurts. 我鼻子疼。 Wŏ bí zi téng.

My mouth hurts. 我嘴巴疼。 Wŏ zuĭ téng.

My back hurts. 我背疼。 Wŏ bèi téng.

My hand hurts. 我手疼。 Wŏ shŏu téng.

My foot hurts. 我脚疼。 Wŏ jiăo téng.

My leg hurts. 我腿疼。 Wŏ tuĭ téng.

Some culture information will be explained in this part:

Teacher will tell students the emergency number for an

ambulance in China is 120 instead of 911.

Patients go to see the doctors in their offices instead of

doctors come to see you in a room.

4. Practice

Students will practice the dialogue in pairs

5. Presentation

Teacher will call out some pairs to present their conversations

pretending they are doctors and patients.

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Closure Questions

What’s the emergency number in China if you need an ambulance?

How can you tell the doctor in Chinese when a part of your body

bothers you?

Evaluation Method

Questions listed above will be asked during class to access whether

students have achieved the fifth objective.

Students will tell the teacher one word or sentence they remember

from the class before they go out of the classroom as usual.

Follow-up

I will let the students know that we will learn the song that we played

in the beginning and end of the class next week

All the students will act out a play about seeing a doctor in a Chinese

hospital in groups next week.

Reflective self-evaluation:

Did all the students meet all the objectives?

Did all the activities serve their purpose?

What part did I do well when I deliver the lesson?

What part did I do badly when I deliver the lesson?

What can I do to improve when I teach the same lesson again?

What should I do to those students who don’t have moms? Will I

make them sad?

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Attachment 1

kàn bìng 看 病

See the Doctor

yī shēng：nǐ hǎo

医 生： 你 好。

bìng rén：nǐ hǎo

病 人： 你 好。

yī shēng：nǐ nǎ bù shū fú

医 生： 你 哪 不 舒 服 ？(What’s wrong with

you?)

bìng rén：wǒ tóu téng

病 人： 我 头 疼。(I have a headache.)

yī shēng：wǒ kàn kàn

医 生： 我 看 看。( Let me check..)

gěi nǐ chǔ fāng

给 你 处 方。( Here’s the priscription)

bìng rén：xiè xiè

病 人： 谢 谢

yī shēng： bù yòng xiè。zài jiàn

医 生： 不 用 谢。 再 见。

bìng rén： zài jiàn 。

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病 人： 再 见。