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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
  • rhodapennington on Asking availability and price at a shop

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

Pinyin

Leave a comment Posted on April 29, 2019 Pinyin

Reading Practice of Pinyin

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Leave a comment Posted on July 5, 2016 Pinyin, YCT 1, YCT 2, Year 5, Year 6

Weather words and phrases

It is not just the British who like to talk about the weather!  Try the words first and then see if you can talk about the weather on different days and at different times of day.

Leave a comment Posted on July 4, 2016July 4, 2016 Pinyin, Uncategorized, Year 4

Weather flashcards

Practice basic weather words here

And when you know them you can play ‘scatter’.

Leave a comment Posted on June 6, 2016April 20, 2017 Pinyin, YCT 1, Year 4

BOPOMOFO alphabet mandarin – YouTube

Leave a comment Posted on October 6, 2015July 3, 2016 Pinyin, Year 4

The weather in Autumn.

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Autumn weather sentences

Leave a comment Posted on February 10, 2015July 3, 2016 Clothes, Pinyin, Year 3, Year 4

Clothes and weather.

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Leave a comment Posted on January 27, 2015July 3, 2016 Pinyin, Year 4, Year 6

4RB’s weather song lyrics.

Weather song lyrics 4RB

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1 Comment Posted on December 3, 2014July 3, 2016 Pinyin, Year 4

Not again Farley! – weather

Not again Farley! – Weather.

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Leave a comment Posted on November 3, 2014July 3, 2016 Pinyin, Year 4

BBC – KS2 Mandarin – Not Again Farley! – Weather Mandarin

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BBC – KS2 Mandarin – Not Again Farley! – Weather Mandarin.

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