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Birthday Party Lesson Plan

A Chinese-language lesson plan has students design a birthday shopping list or invitation card in groups and present it in Chinese.
Grades
Not Grade Specific
File type
Microsoft Word

Updated May 31, 2022

Subject
Foreign Languages, Chinese
Topic
Chinese, bilingual
Resource types
Teacher Tools, Lesson Plans

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What's inside this resource

This resource is a Birthday Party Lesson Plan.

Students will be able to apply their vocabulary related to birthdays by creating a shopping list or birthday invitation with other students.

This lesson plan will cover 4 language arts skills for Chinese:

  • - Speaking

  • - Listening

  • - Reading

  • - Writing

This lesson comes with:

  • - Introduction

  • - Review

  • - Activity choices

  • - Informal assessment

  • - Evaluation

Three external links are included for references.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Use birthday-related vocabulary in Chinese to create a shopping list or invitation card
  • Present a group project orally in Chinese to the class
  • Demonstrate listening comprehension of a song, teacher instructions, and peer presentations in Chinese
  • Write a short reflection in Chinese describing something learned, a comment, or a question

Teaching tips

  • Use the flyswatter vocabulary game as a review before the main activity, since it's built into the lesson as the designated review step
  • Let each group choose between the shopping-list and invitation-card options rather than assigning one, since the plan explicitly frames these as parallel choices
  • Provide the visual word bank and sentence starters up front for differentiation, then remove them only for advanced students who are directed to write independently
  • Use the bilingual exit ticket format as a quick formative assessment at the end of class

Skills covered

  • Chinese language
  • World languages

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Do all four student groups complete the same activity, or do different groups do different activities?

Pairs of groups do the same activity — the plan splits the class into four groups, with two groups doing the shopping-list option and two doing the invitation-card option.

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