Topic ----Dinning out

Stage 1 Desired Results

ESTABLISHED
GOALS
Standards for
foreign language
learning
1.1 Interpersonal
Communication
1.2 Interpretive
Communication
4.2 comparing
culture
2.1 culture
understanding

Transfer
Students will be able to act culturally and contently appropriate to
Chinese culture when dinning out in a Chinese restaurant.

Meaning
UNDERSTANDINGS
Students will understand the basic
expressions and knowledge about
ordering food, in Chinese language
and cultural aspects.

ESSENTIAL
QUESTIONS
1why do people gather
together to eat?
2How does meal
etiquette compare between
China and the USA?

Acquisition

Students will know :

1Chinese dishes name;
2Communication skill and
strategies in conversation under the
topic;

Students are skilled at:

1) Ordering in Chinese
restaurant;
2) Claiming for food
preference;
3) Asking for
recommendations;
4) Rush your meal;
5) Pay the bill;

Stage 2 - Evidence
Evaluative Criteria

Assessment Evidence

Performance
assessment

1 Create and present a skit ordering a meal in a Chinese

restaurant including a complication.
2Writing a paragraph---- My school cafeteria
3Create a questionnaire to survey your classmates about
their food preferences. Summarize your findings and present to
the class.

Other
assessment

1Online review and self-evaluation (www.quizlet.com)

2Listening and speaking test

3Test/quiz
4Poster Project---- Chinese food
Stage 3 Learning Plan
Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Students
are
watching a video
about
how
Chinese people
order
food,
answer
the
question
and
then complete a
conversation
script, covering
the
study
objectives on the
book.
HW: make flash
card
quiz paper

go over the new

words and quiz
paper
students
need
revise
the
conversation,
and find the
language points
on the book
complete the
note according
to their study
guide sheet

TB P37 grammar #1

grammar #2 /
take notes,
HW: WB P29 B,30
C,D (give examples)
quiz on grammar 1, 2,

structure
Wednesday
Pass out the writing
work, and listen to the
best three papers to
read and post on the
wall.

grammar quiz
go over the answer
grammar #3 /
grammar WB
P31 E

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

text 12-1
listen to the text
and answer the
questions
WB P24 II-A
Three students a
group to read it in
class.
HW: according to
the
model
conversation,
make your own
script, draft in
English,
and
finalize
in
Chinese.
2-4 students a
group.

Collect
writing
correction
and
three students
paper read to
class, post in
class.
TB P37 grammar
#1
grammar #2 /

take notes,
HW: WB P29
B,30 C,D (give
examples)

Listen to the text and

answer the questions
WB P24 II-A
Three students a
group to read it in
class.
.Students
start
working
on
the
conversation sheet
Pre-work: check
lesson 12 learning
objectives to see how
much will be learned
form the sheet

WB listening sections
according to the model
conversation, make your
own script, draft in English,
and finalize in Chinese.
2-4 students a group
HW: finish WB lesson 12-1

Day 9

Day 10

Conversation
practice 1-3
Writing
assignment
My school
cafeteria

Check
the
conversation
work
Collect all the
writing sheet
Go over the
bonus work, give
students the
answers.

Day 11

Day 12

Create a questionnaire to survey your

classmates about their food preferences.
Summarize your findings and present to the
class.

Chapter project---- poster of Chinese food

Project-- learn and share a Chinese Food

This is a graded and individual project
In the poster they are expected to talk about one question about Chinese Food culture,
(teacher should offer some heated questions, rumors,etc.)and introduce one Chinese
dish.
1 Brainstorm. What you really want to explore in terns of this subject. They are
watching a BBC video about Chinese food.
2
3
4

5
6

Search individual questions and materials

Make poster
Search recipe
Make poster
presentation