a. Viewing, listening,and speaking about culture

Skills training: language, culture, comparing and contrasting cultures

Interactive strategy: give feedback on information related to text, photo, or video content.

Please take notes while watching the video. Write down the difference between celebrating Spring Festival in the past and now. E.g．

In the past, most people would set off fireworks and firecrackers.

Now, some people don’t set off fireworks during the Spring Festival.

In addition to comprehension exercises after the video content, other activity designs can be developed. For instance, to design a tourist route after watching several video clips on tourism; after watching a video clip on banning plastics, students may summarise the policies in the video and discuss whether environmental protection policies are practical in the context of local realities; to watch videos of a family reunion dinner on Chinese New Year’s Eve and learn the expressions for toasts; to watch videos of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and compare it with Thanksgiving Day, then discuss their similarities and differences.

 (2) Interpersonal type

The interpersonal mode involves two-way communication aimed at mutual understanding. Students can make themselves understood in conversations, comments, exchanges of information, and opinion statements mainly by listening, speaking, reading, and writing. During the course of communication, they can collaborate to fulfill the same expression tasks, in addition to their assigned tasks. The author divides interpersonal activities into the following priorities: expressing views, discussion and comments, interviews, and role cooperation.

a. Expressing views and comments

Skills training: oral/written communication expressed in paragraphs, to state opinions and give examples

Interactive strategy: Think Aloud; Human Graph

I agree/don’t agree……

I think it’s best not to……

I don’t think …….is good/ I think……is a good idea

illustration/example

There are several advantages to doing so……

It’s good/ It isn’t good

First, Second, Third

to retain Chinese characteristics

to……

for example

to take…… for example

summarise viewpoint

therefore……

so,

1. At least 80 words.
2. sentence pattern:

Please use at least five expressions and two sentence patterns:

build, remain, traditional, architecture, characteristics,change, integrate, to one’s surprise, familiar, strange, indeed, tourist, everywhere, to……

 V. can tell by V.  /V. can not tell by V.  V. have had done sth.…,but for

b. Discussion and comparison

Skills training: oral/written communication in paragraphs; stating views; comparing and contrasting; Analysing the problem from multiple perspectives; exchanging new viewpoints; and getting informed by different perspectives.

Interactive strategy: Think Aloud; Human Graph; Think-Pair-Share