Xiaochen's Substitute Lesson Plan

Ms. Song’s Substitute Lesson Plan for 5th grade students (37 min)
Topic of the week: Family Members
Objectives of the day: Learn how to address your relatives in Chinese

How to address your family member in Mandarin? (5 min)
First, teacher need to tell students the differences of addressing a relatives in Chinese and in English. In the United States, uncle and aunts are used for both father side of the family and mother side. As well as “grandma” and “grandpa”. In China, it is very different, for example, we have different names for grandpa in mother side and father side. Today, we are gonna introduce how to call your relatives if you are in China.


Use the family tree to introduce family members (See attachment “family tree”) (10 min)
As teacher introduce the family members, students read after the teacher. Do it twice so students can have a impression on the correct tone of the language.

Take Notes (10 min)
Give each student a empty family tree, and ask them to fill in the blanks with Chinese characters and Pinyin. Then they can highlight the family members they have. For example, if one student has 哥哥 (older brother), he will hightlight that in his family tree.

Survey (10 min)
Give each student a survey with two questions.
1. 你家几口人? (How many people are there in your family?)
2. 你家有谁?(Who do you have in your family?)
Students need to ask these questions to their classmates. Since they have learned numbers and family members, they are able to answer these questions in English. Then the next day, we are going to have an activity with students’ survey result.