Group 2: Emily Hsiang Yuhui Liu Yi Yang

Introduction
Objectives
Communicative objectives:

To introduce family members in a social setting. To inquire about someones family situation and find similarities. To make inquiry about identity of a person.

 Linguistic objectives:

To understand Chinese kinship vocabulary for extended family across generation on both paternal and maternal sides. To be able to use both possessive () and existential () constructions.

To be able to use interrogative constructions () to identify relationship.

Rationale
Priming and Scaffolding
Introduction of family members by teacher and students Video clip

Sequencing of 3 Tasks Task 1: Building a Family Tree Tasks 2: Comparing Family Members Tasks 3: Jeopardy Game on Family Kinship Terms

Task Sequencing
Dual Dimensions of Task Complexity
Task 1 Here and now Developmental complexity Few elements Task 2 Task 3

+ + + + + -

+ + -

0 +

No reasoning
Planning Performative complexity Prior knowledge Single task

Weighted numerical value on Task Complexity

Complex (-)
Here and now

Simple (+)

Resourcedirecting

Few elements

+1.5

-1.5

No reasoning
Planning

Resourcedepleting

Prior knowledge Single task

+1.0

-1.0

Complexity Level of Tasks

6.00 5.00 4.00

4.00

Weighted complexity value

3.00 2.00 1.00 0.00 -1.00 Complexity

2.50

-2.00
-3.00 -4.00 -5.00 -6.00 Task 1 Task 2 Task 3

-5.50
Tasks

Integration of Four Skills

Task 1: Writing, Speaking

Task 2: Writing, Speaking, Listening, Reading

Task 3: Reading, Listening, Speaking

Priming and Scaffolding

Teacher introduces the topic Family

Teacher asks Students of their families

Video clip

Task 1: Building a Family Tree

Tasks 2: Comparing Family Members

Kinship terms and vocabularies

Describe what you see in your family picture, and then ask your partner what family members are on his/her picture.
For example: _____ ,____, ____......____ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________

Questions for discussion with your partner:

What are the similarities between these two families? What are the differences between these two families? How many people are in each others photo?

Please prepare a two-minutes presentation

Introducing the family on your picture as well as the similarities and differences within your pair to the whole class.

Tasks 3:
Jeopardy Game on Family Kinship Terms
Values for each question:
Nuclear Family Paternal Maternal

100 200 300 400

100 200 300 400

100 200 300 400

Jeopardy Questions (in the form of answers)

Nuclear Family

Paternal

Maternal

Correct Answers
Nuclear Family
()

Paternal
()

Maternal
()

()

()

()

()

()

()

()

Thank You!

Enjoy your family!