Society

Family Members

Vocabulary:

• Vocabulary Bank

• Quizlet Set

• Sentence Builders

• Chinese Family Tree

• BBC Bitesize: Taking about Family (vocabulary)

• BBC Bitesize: Family life in Beijing (video)

Describing Family Members (and people in general)

Vocabulary:

1. • Physical Descriptions vocabulary sheet and Quizlet set

   • Personality Descriptions vocabulary sheet and Quizlet set

   • Appearance sentence builders

   • Physical Description Flippity Randomizer

Reading

• Lost Pets Reading and Questions

Speaking:

1. • Describing Family Spin and Say

Writing:

1. • Personality descriptions translation exercise

Listening:

1. • Who am I - BBC video and listening exercise questions

   • Family and Pets- GCSE Style Listening (video with vocabulary quiz and listening exercises)

   • Podcast: Coffee Break Chinese - Describing People

Family Relationships

Vocabulary:

• Vocabulary sheet and Quizlet set

Reading:

• Family relationships reading with true or false

• Relationships reading with questions

• Getting on with Family Reading (from the SCEN Chinese Teaching Club Reading Booklet)

• Family Relationships sorting and translation

Listening:

• BBC Bitesize: Family relationships in China (video)

Housework

Vocabulary:

• Vocabulary sheet with pictures

• Vocabulary sheet with sentences

• Quizlet set

• Spring Cleaning List (Written Chinese)

• Housework vocabulary video

Reading:

• Chores

• Household chores article (from HSK reading)

Vocabulary

• Friend personality Quizlet

• Getting on with your friends Quizlet

Reading Exercises

• My Best Friend Reading

• Good Friends Fill in the Blanks

• Friendship Reading (from the SCEN Chinese Teaching Club Reading Booklet)

• Peer Pressure (from the SCEN Chinese Teaching Club Reading Booklet)

Listening Exercises

• A Good Looking Boy Listening exercise

Vocabulary:

• Key words

• Quizlet

• Match-up activity (wordwall activity)

• Video Tutorial - Daily Routine

• Video - Daily routine

Writing Exercises

• Translation worksheet and answers

• Sentence unscramble (wordwall activity)

Reading Exercises

• Reading Comprehension Worksheet (from the IOE Confucius Institute for Schools website)

• Daily routine revision worksheet (from the IOE Confucius Institute for Schools website)

• Eating with Family (download GCSE reading paper from IOE Confucius Institute for Schools webpage, and scroll down to page 9, Eating with Family)

• Fill in the Blanks worksheet

Vocabulary

• Key words

• Quizlet

  • BBC Bitesize (vocabulary lesson)

• Hobbies matching (bookwidget)

• Hobbies jumbled sentence activity

  • Sports whack-a-mole game

  • Video Lesson - skip to 3 minutes in for Hobbies

  • Sports and activities in China video

Reading Exercises

• • Reading exercise (bookwidget)

  • Leisure Reading Activities presentation

  • Sports and Hobbies (download GCSE reading paper from the IOE Confucius Institute for Schools webpage, and scroll down to page 2, Sports)

  • What to do on the weekend - Mandarin Bean article

Listening Exercises

• • BBC Class Clips:

    • Sports and Hobbies listening exercise questions

    • Sport and Hobbies listening exercise video

  • Hobbies listening with multiple choice questions

  • Sports listening with multiple choice questions

  • Hobbies- GCSE Style Listening (video with vocabulary quiz and listening exercises)

  • The Arts listening with multiple choice questions

Speaking Exercises

• Practice pronunciation and expressions

• Sports and Hobbies Spin and Say

Vocabulary

• Key words

• Quizlet sets by topic:

  • • Staple foods

    • Fruits and vegetables

    • Junk food

    • Drinks

    • Cooking techniques, ingredients and flavours

    • Healthy habits

• Tofu Learn set on Cooking techniques, ingredients and flavours

• BBC Bitesize: Food (vocabulary)

• Staple foods scrambled sentences activity

• Food Pyramid Matching Activity (wordwall)

• Heathy/Unhealthy foods whack-a-mole game (wordwall)

Reading Exercises

• Healthy Lifestyles (from the SCEN Chinese Teaching Club Reading Booklet)

• Healthy Eating (from the SCEN Chinese Teaching Club Reading Booklet)

• Healthy Habits Reading, Writing and Optional Mad Lib Worksheet

Listening Exercises

• • Food and Drink - GCSE Style Listening (video with vocabulary quiz and listening exercises)

  • BBC Class Clips:

    • Healthy Living BBC questions

    • Healthy Living BBC video

Media Platforms, Usage and Opinions

Vocabulary

• Vocabulary

• Quizlet set

Reading

• Media Opinions Matching Exercise

• Internet Usage (download GCSE reading paper from IOE Confucius Institute for Schools, and scroll down to page 16, Who is online?)

Listening Exercises

• BBC Class Clips

  • Phones and Computers Listening Questions

  • Phones and Computers Video

TV, Film and Music

Vocabulary

• Movie and TV Genres and Descriptors Quizlet

• Music Quizlet

Reading

• Reading: Film/Cinema Exercise (From SCEN Chinese Teaching Club Reading Booklet)

Where You Live and Places in Town

Where you live:

• • Sentence Builders

  • Where You Live Quizlet

  • Describing my hometown sentences

Places in Town:

• • Places in Town Vocabulary and Grammar Sheet

  • Places in Town Quizlet

  • BBC Bitesize- Exploring the Town (vocabulary)

  • Places in Town Matching Activity

Reading:

• • My City Bookwidgets Reading Comprehension

  • Self-marking past paper reading (liveworksheets.com)

Listening:

• • Where Mrs. Zhong lives - video with questions

  • My Local Area- GCSE Style Listening (video with vocabulary quiz and listening exercises)

  • Describing a Special Place in Chinese

Describing Location and Giving Directions

Vocabulary:

• • Describing Location Quizlet

• Asking for directions Quizlet

• BBC Real Chinese - Asking for directions

Listening:

• 到哪儿去怎么走 (video by Practical Audio-Visual Chinese Vol 2; transcript by Edward of Hanyufanting)

• Growing up with Chinese: Asking for Directions

Describing my Home:

Listening:

• My Home- GCSE Style Listening (video with vocabulary quiz and listening exercises)

Reading:

• My bedroom gapfill reading