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Reception

  • Reception

Children’s Work

  • Children’s work

Year 1

  • Introductions
  • Senses
  • Counting to five with fireworks and firecrackers
  • Counting to ten with toys
  • Chinese homes
  • Insects and flowers – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Fruit and Vegetables

Year 2

  • My family and birthdays
  • Chinese Five Elements
  • Transport
  • Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
  • Yin and Yang
  • By the seaside

Year 3

  • Mid-autumn festival
  • Colours
  • Clothes
  • Sports
  • In my room
  • Terracotta Warriors, animals

Year 4

  • Ming Dynasty
  • Radicals
  • Flying to Beijing
  • Hobbies and pastimes
  • Pinyin
  • Animals and Pets

Year 5

  • Dates and birthdays
  • Time
  • YCT 1

Year 6

  • Food and drink
  • YCT 2

Recent Comments

  • reese on Asking availability and price at a shop
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Adult learning

  • A guide to interesting Chinese films with subtitles. Please check the parental guidance ratings.
  • Chinese memory games
  • Kan Qian's Language Learning website
  • Learn NC Mandarin Chinese.
  • Study Stack
  • Wiki on How to Write Characters

China and Chinese for children

  • Chinese 4 Kids
  • Chinese memory games
  • Click here to have a go at making an ancient Chinese 'slat' book.
  • Dragon Boat Festival, a round up of Dragon Boat crafts.
  • Duanwujie – Dragon Boat Festival
  • Ducksters history website – Terracotta Warriors
  • Highlightskids.com
  • Incredible pictures of Chinese scenes drawn with a biro
  • Mandarin for Me

Chinese calligraphy

  • A demonstration video of Chinese calligraphy
  • Calligraphy for kids
  • Chinese Calligraphy explained

Classroom tools

  • A Radical View of Chinese Characters
  • Bouncy balls
  • Chineasy
  • Coloured interactive map of the world.
  • Countdown clock
  • Google calendar
  • Illustrated Map of China
  • Interactive countries map of world.
  • Nciku learning: fruits
  • Semanda.com
  • Stroke Order learning website
  • Stroke Order practice sheets
  • Teaching clock
  • Wiki on How to Write Characters

Dictionary

  • MDBG dictionary
  • Yellowbridge Chinese dictionary

Flashcards

  • Animal radicals
  • Body part radicals
  • Body parts
  • Brown Bear Story
  • Buying at the teashop
  • By the seaside
  • By the seaside (reading)
  • Chinese New Year foods
  • Chinese New Year sayings
  • Chinese Sports Day vocabulary
  • Cities
  • Clothes
  • Clothes basic
  • Colours
  • Comparing teapots
  • Dates
  • Dates YCT 2
  • Dragon Boat Festival key words
  • Drink
  • Family
  • Flight
  • Flight (reading)
  • Food
  • Food and drink radicals
  • Formal Introductions
  • Fruit and vegetables
  • Greetings
  • Greetings at different times of day.
  • Have/not have
  • Highgate Primary School
  • Hobbies and pastimes
  • I am sorry, my Chinese is not good
  • I like…
  • Important radicals
  • In my room
  • In the room (Year 3)
  • Introducing zodiac animals using 'This is……'
  • Introductions review
  • Journey to the west
  • Locations
  • Manners
  • Medical Emergency at Teashop (2)
  • Medical emergency at the teashop
  • Medical Emergency basic vocabulary
  • Molihua endings
  • Molihua Set 1
  • Molihua song
  • Numbers
  • Parts of face with 'big' and 'small'.
  • Pets and animals
  • Questions about likes and dislikes.
  • Rooms in my house
  • School
  • Sports and Days of the Week
  • Tea house basic
  • Teachers' greetings
  • Terracotta warriors body parts
  • This….
  • Tickets
  • Transport
  • Vegetables, fruit and healthy eating
  • Weather (for teashop roleplay)
  • Weather words and phrases
  • Where is…?
  • YCT 1 key word review
  • YCT 2 Chapter 2 Individual Words
  • YCT 2 Extra words and phrases
  • Year 5 introductions, key people
  • Zodiac animals

Games

  • A Radical View of Chinese Characters
  • Ba Ba Dum
  • BBC Primary Mandarin
  • Chinese memory games
  • Digital dialects – Chinese
  • Hello Mylo
  • How do I learn Chinese?

Music and songs

  • 'Frozen' in Mandarin
  • 'Mum doesn't like me'
  • Autumn is here
  • 一只青蛙 One Frog Sog
  • Chinese fluffy blogspot song list
  • Dui bu qi song by Transition
  • Finding friends
  • Little bunny
  • Little bunny, open the door
  • Mama Lisa
  • Molihua song
  • Molihua sung by Maori dudes
  • Molihua with English subtitles
  • Rebecca Black's 'Friday' in Mandarin
  • The Buhaoyisi Song
  • Top Ten Chinese Songs for Kids
  • Traditional music
  • Two Tigers
  • Yu Hong-mei 'Going to the Fair'.

Puzzles

  • YCT 1 phrase puzzle
  • YCT1 Adjectival phrase puzzle
  • YCT1 Animal phrase puzzle
  • YCT1 Animal puzzle
  • YCT1 Animal puzzle
  • YCT1 Animal puzzle
  • YCT1 Animal puzzle
  • YCT1 Verb puzzle
  • YCT1 Verb puzzle
  • YCT1 Verb puzzle
  • YCT1 Verb puzzle

Speaking tools

  • Sound Cloud

YCT 1

  • Adjectives (YCT 1)
  • Animals (YCT 1)
  • Body parts YCT1
  • Family and other people (YCT 1)
  • Food and drink (YCT 1)
  • Introductions and greetings (YCT 1)
  • Key word review
  • People
  • Places (YCT 1)
  • Question words (YCT 1)
  • This….
  • Time and date (YCT 1)
  • YCT 1 phrase puzzle
  • YCT 1 Vocabulary list
  • YCT1 Adjectival phrase puzzle
  • YCT1 Animal phrase puzzle
  • YCT1 Animal puzzle
  • YCT1 Animal puzzle
  • YCT1 Verb puzzle
  • YCT1 Verb puzzle
  • YCT1 Verb puzzle
  • YCT1 Verb puzzle

YCT 1 Chapters

  • YCT 1 Chapter 1 (Hello)
  • YCT 1 Chapter 2 (What's your name)

YCT 2 Chapters

  • YCT 2 Chapter 1
  • YCT 2 Chapter 2
  • YCT 2 Chapter 2 Individual Words

YCT II

  • Buying Groceries
  • Dates YCT 2
  • Food and Drink (YCT 2)
  • How many?
  • I have…
  • I like…
  • I think …. (colours)
  • In the room
  • Kahoot 'In the room'
  • Manners
  • Medical emergency at the teashop
  • Medical Emergency basic vocabulary
  • Self-information
  • Things I can do YCT2
  • Time
  • Weather (for teashop roleplay)
  • What are you doing? (present continous)
  • Where are you?
  • YCT 2 Chapter 2
  • YCT 2 Extra words and phrases
  • YCT 2 Vocabulary list

Year 1

  • Fruit Song
  • Kung Fu Numbers and Number Characters

Year 2

  • Introducing zodiac animals using 'This is……'

Year 3

  • Colours
  • In the room (Year 3)
  • Sports and Days of the Week

Year 4

  • A Radical View of Chinese Characters
  • Important radicals

Animals of the Chinese Zodiac

The 12 animals of the zodiac

Leave a comment Posted on May 13, 2019 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Reception, Year 2

Old MacDonald (Mandarin version)

Leave a comment Posted on January 31, 2018 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac

See what animal you are

Leave a comment Posted on March 13, 2017 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Year 2

Zodiac animals, this is…

Leave a comment Posted on January 19, 2017February 21, 2017 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Festivals, Year 2

Chinese New Year Story – CBeebies – BBC

Find out how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac decided who would have which year named after them.

Source: Chinese New Year Story – CBeebies – BBC

Leave a comment Posted on July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Year 2

Zodiac animals

Don’t forget you can play games by selecting ‘Choose a Study Mode’

Leave a comment Posted on April 13, 2016July 3, 2016 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Year 2

Chinese Zodiac Poster | Zazzle

Source: Chinese Zodiac Poster | Zazzle

Leave a comment Posted on June 17, 2014July 3, 2016 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Year 2

Descriptions (2) PPT

Descriptions2

1 Comment Posted on June 16, 2014July 3, 2016 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Year 2

Descriptions 描述

Click  below for descriptions powerpoint.

Descriptions

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7 Comments Posted on February 10, 2014July 3, 2016 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Year 2

Click below to revise the 7 zodiac animals you know and move on to learn all 12. Next, look at the flashcards for the zodiac animals on the right hand column of the blog. Have fun!

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zodiacanimals12

8 Comments Posted on February 5, 2014July 3, 2016 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, Year 2

And now check your knowledge of these first 7 animals using Quizlet. Click on the horse to access the quiz. The next 5 animals will be coming in another installment!

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