Unit+Plan

**Unit Plan**
Community—Through interview with Chinese speakers, Students have a chance to interact with people of different cultural background. Comparison— Through the survey, students compare their experience of being away from home with Chinese students. Connection—Students will use survey to gather the information they need, which is one of the research methods used in many other disciplines. Culture—Authentic Chinese media resources will be introduced to students. || one is studying abroad. •Some sports are more popular in China than they are in U.S.A •Cultural differences are neither good nor bad; they are just different. || •What is culture shock? •Is playing sport or joining sport club a good way to make friends in a new environment? || what students will know and be able to do  ||  **Knowledge** what students will need in terms of vocabulary and structures to demonstrate their knowledge || **(Integrated Performance Assessment)** || Survey Questionnaire Vocabulary Quiz (See sample below) || Interview Video Presentation || Why Study Abroad?—[] media type="youtube" key="eikxZN5OZkc" height="349" width="425"
 * **Department:** |||| **World Languages** ||
 * **Course:** |||| **Chinese 202** ||
 * **Theme:** |||| **Families and Communities** ||
 * **Topic:** |||| **Sports and Friends** ||
 * **Learning Scenario** |||| The Rinker Center for International Program at Ball State University is looking for volunteers to conduct interviews with Chinese students about how BSU can do better on accommodating new Chinese students. Volunteers need to be able to speak both Chinese and English, and are cultural open-mined. First, volunteers will design a survey that will be given to Chinese students on campus. Then, students will survey Chinese speaking students on their life experience at BSU. Interviewer should be prepared to extend an invitation to the exchange students. ||
 * **Standard(s):** |||| Communication—Students will design a survey in Chinese, conduct an interview with Chinese speaking students, and share the result of their survey.
 * **Stage 1: Desired Results** ||
 * **Understandings** |||| •Language barrier and culture shock might be experienced when
 * **Essential Questions** |||| •How does it feel like to live away from home?
 * **Skills / Functions**
 * Describe feelings of living away from home. || Adjectives for describing sad/happy feelings. ||
 * Using email/phone call to set up an appointment with interviewee || How to make an appointment in a polite way. Vocabularies (date, time, and place) and simple sentences for setting up an appointment. ||
 * Invite friends to play sports || Using simple sentences to invite friends to play sports. Vocabularies on the name of the sports: Basketball, swimming, tennis, etc. ||
 * Writing survey question || Brainstorm the interview questions ||
 * Make Suggestions || Use basic sentence pattern to make suggestion. ||
 * **Stage 2: Assessment Evidence** ||
 * **Performance Task Summary**
 * Interpretive |||||| Watch Chinese commercial that depicts homesickness. ||
 * Interpersonal |||||| Interview with native Chinese speakers about their life experience at BSU. The interview concludes with an effort to extend the invitation to the exchange students. ||
 * Presentational |||||| Provide a profile of interviewee by describing his/her favorite sports or hobbies in a video. Give suggestion to BSU international student office on how its staff can do better on accommodating new Chinese students. ||
 * **Formative Assessments** ||  **Other Summative Assessments**  ||
 * Scavenger Hunt (asking each other’s favorite sport)
 * Stage 3: Learning Activities ||
 * **Hook** |||| Play video "Why Study Abroad?"(I will insert Chinese subtitles to cover the English ones) ||
 * After students watch the video, they will share what they think about studying aboard. I will ask some question on whether they want to study abroad, why or why not. After the discussion, the project of interviewing Chinese student will be introduced to them. ||
 * **Resources** ||
 * **YouTube:**

Chinese Commercial—[] media type="youtube" key="H4x3Cdd9wB0" height="349" width="425" ||

Vocabulary Quiz

Make some phrases with two or more words in the following (each word needs to be used at least once). Then translate the meaning of those phrases: Example: 拍，网球 à 网球拍 “tennis racket”

1. 听力 2. 赛 3. 调 4. 足球 5. 圆 6. 上大学 7. 提高 8. 台 9. 为了