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To get students ready for the Chinese Spring Festival celebration, Wanda designed the subject of “Chun Jie” in January, which included drawing red lanterns, watching some performances from Spring Festival galas, learning to sing songs, etc. Most students felt fascinated at the splendid stage, fantastic lights and wonderful performances in the galas, and some asked to see more.
To help students learn the song “If You Are Happy, Clap Your Hands with Me,” Wanda designed a competition to activate them to learn the words of the song. First, she asked students to listen to the song two or three times to get a general meaning of the song and do the actions with the tune. Then she said the words “paipaishou, duoduojiao, dasheng han, zhenbang” and did the actions to help the students to understand the meaning of each word. After several repetitions, she said the words one by one, and students did the actions accordingly. Then came the competition. Two students came to the front and did the actions they heard; the one who was quicker and correct got one point. The students were very active in the competition. After several times, some students would volunteer to say the words for other competitors to do the actions.
Ms. Wanda explaining the meaning of some Chinese characters to the students
In the second class, Wanda asked the students to do the competition another way. First, she did the actions one by one and students were required to do the actions accordingly. Then came the competition.
Through doing competitions, most students learned to say the words in the song, even some complex ones as “gandao, kaixin, yiqizuo” and meanwhile their interest in learning Chinese was motivated.
Students competing in the class