LISTENING TO A VIDEO CLASS ACTIVITIES

Now, my grade 2 students are learning about “Chinese and western food.” They are exploring about common types of Chinese and western food. One of our class activities is listening to a video and doing some engaging activities related to it.

Ages: 7-8 years old

Objectives:

- Listen and understand the general meaning of a video

- Organize story based on correct sequence

- Visualize an ending of a story

- Create a mini book

Resource: “好(hǎo) 饿(è) 的(de) 小(xiǎo) 蛇(shé)” 

(You may consider using “The very hungry caterpillar” in Chinese version.)

1. I showed the title and asked a volunteer to read aloud. Since no one could read it properly; some of them only recognized some characters then I guided students to read together.

2. Passed next questions: “what the title means to you?”, “what maybe the story about”, “who is the main character of this story?”, “do you like snake?”

3. Introduced new vocabulary to students.

4. Played the video and paused sometimes to clarify meanings.

5. Played short quiz to assess their level of understanding.

                                              



   

6. Passed one sheet of picture and another sheet for a mini book template to students.

7. Students cut the pictures first and organized the order.

8. Played the video for second time so they could check their answer.

9. Now, they glued it to a template and wrote words in pin yin/ Chinese characters.

10. For the last box, everyone could visualize different ending and you could see how creative they are in doing this J

11. Decorated the mini book

12. Ready to be displayed or they could bring it home and shared the story to family.