g7 Unit Plan Eating

Grade 7 Chinese Unit Plan
Unit Title: Eating ()

Language and Grade: 7th Grade Chinese

Length and timing of unit: 3 Weeks

1. Curriculum Framework addressed
Interpretive Communication
2.1 Follow directions
2.2 Understand some ideas and familiar details
2.3 Obtain information and knowledge

Interpersonal Communication
1.2 Introduce and respond to introductions*
1.3 Ask and answer questions*
1.4 Make and respond to requests
1.5 Exchange information and knowledge
1.6 Express likes and dislikes

Presentational Communication
3.1 Express opinions and ideas
3.2 Express needs and emotions
3.3 Express agreement and disagreement
3.6 Present information in a brief report

Cultures
4.1 Use appropriate words, phrases, expressions, and gestures in interactions
such as greetings and farewells,
4.5 Identify distinctive contributions made by people in the target culture

Comparisons
5.2 Give examples of ways in which the target language differs from/is
similar to English
5.4 Identify linguistic characteristics of the target language and compare and
contrast them with English linguistic characteristics
6.4 Identify and discuss cultural characteristics of the target culture and
compare and contrast them to cultural characteristics of their own culture*

Connections
7.1 Obtain information and knowledge related to other disciplines from
sources in the target language

Communities
8.1 Apply knowledge of the target language and culture beyond the
classroom setting

2. A list of factual knowledge to be taught Students will
know(Correlates with essential knowledge on curriculum maps)

Objectives: Students will be able to
- Do greetings and farewells as waiter/waitress and customers
- Order food at a Chinese restaurant
- Offer a choice using (or)
- Comment on food
- Express usually or often
- Explain cause

Review:
- Express hunger or thirst
- Talk about someones ability
- Ask what someone would like to eat or drink
- Express likes/dislikes about food and drinks

!"#$% to $"#' #%' ($)*"+

Review characters:

Learn to speak:
Do greetings and farewells as waiter/waitress and customers

Order food at a Chinese restaurant

Offer a choice using (or)

Ask for recommendation and comment on food

Review the different degrees:
Express usually or often
often
usually
not often)
Explain cause

Supplementary expressions:

3. A list of skills to be taught or reinforced (including habits of mind)
Students will be able to (Correlates with communicative outcomes, and
other Cs on curriculum maps)

Interpretive Communication
! Read a list of available foods
! Identify food groups from items on a Chinese menu
! Interpret information from items on a Chinese menu

Interpersonal Communication
! Ask and answer simple questions to obtain/share food
! Ask/answer simple questions about food preferences including naming
favorite foods
! Give/take food order at a Chinese restaurant
! Comment on Chinese food
! Offer a choice
! Make a skit script about eating in a Chinese restaurant

Presentational Communication
! Order from a menu
! Express usually or often
! Explain cause
! Describe similarities/differences between what people eat

Cultures
! Identify cultural practices related to food, such as: Chinese people use
as greetings.
! Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate table manners in China (i.e.
dont stand in rice, wait until the elder begins eating, etc.)

Comparisons
! Compare table manners in different cultures
! Compare what people eat to celebrate their important holidays
! Explore food/language connections
- Recognize borrowed words in Chinese in English, i.e.
toast
- Recognize idiomatic expressions related to food, e.g. ()

Connections
! Explore food and language connections
! Explore how food is depicted in Chinese traditional paintings.
! Explore food production and/or consumption; demonstrate how rice
paper is made and explain why it is valued

Communities
! Prepare Chinese food
! Shop in a Chinese supermarket
! Make a directory of Chinese resources in the community--restaurants,
groceries, libraries with Chinese film collections, etc.

4. Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings Students will understand
that (These should be directly linked to essential questions)

1. Students will understand that Chinese food has different styles
originating from the diverse regions of China, as well as from Chinese
people in other parts of the world. The history of Chinese cuisine in
China stretches back for thousands of years and has changed from
period to period and in each region according to climate, imperial
fashions, and local preferences. The Eight Culinary Traditions of
China are Anhui, Guangdong (Cantonese), Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu,
Shandong, Sichuan, and Zhejiang cuisines. (Doing this culture activity
with Chinese map)

2. Students will understand that China is a large and diverse country that
covers an area roughly the size of Europe. The size of Chinas
population and the great regional and economic diversity make it
difficult to generalize about many cultural practices, perspectives, and
products. Its important to identify traditional Chinese foods from
various regions in China, i.e. rice/wheat cultures
.

3. Students will understand that it is easy to remember borrowed words
by identifying the source, i.e. the English language

5. Essential questions for each Big Idea (in provocative, student-friendly
language): (correlates with essential questions on curriculum maps)
1. What is the relationship between food and culture?

2. How do making connections with borrowed words help me master new
words?

6. Assessments:
Quizzes, tests, and a performance task to assess student mastery formatively
and summatively, including an exemplar of proficient student work and a
scoring guide for the performance tasks.

7. Lesson-by-lesson instructional plan:
Lectures, mini-lessons, read aloud, independent reading, films, website
exploration, discussions, dialogues, debates, interpersonal tasks, partner or
small-group work, student presentations, reports, journals, reflections, in-
class assessments, written reports, essays, research, and homework.

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