Tuesday 29 May 2012

CCCC Test (Children’s Chinese Competence Certification)


The test is 40 minutes long and we’ll have a break in between. 



The first part is listening skills which contain

1. words/sentence listening (multiple choice)

2. picture description (multiple choice)

3. conversation completion (multiple choice)

4. listen & match



The 2nd part is reading skills which contain

1.       Picture description (true or false)

2.       Picture & matching

3.       Gap filling (multiple choice)

Friday 25 May 2012

青蛙 qīng wā


一隻青蛙
 zhī qīng wā


一張嘴
yī zhāng zuǐ 

個眼睛
liǎng gè yǎn jīng
四條腿
sì tiáo tuǐ 
撲通撲通
pū tōng pū tōng
跳下水
tiào xià shuǐ


liǎng zhī qīng wā
   
liǎng zhāng zuǐ
個眼睛
sì      gè yǎn jīng
八條腿
  tiáo tuǐ 
撲通撲通
pū tōng pū tōng
跳下水
tiào xià shuǐ

下雨歌 xià yǔ ge


淅瀝淅瀝
xī      lì    xī    lì
嘩啦嘩啦
huá  lā  huá lā
雨下來了
yǔ   xià  lái   le 
我的媽媽
wǒ  de mā mā
拿著雨傘
ná zhe yǔ sǎn
來接我
lái    jiē wǒ
淅瀝淅瀝
xī      lì    xī    lì
嘩啦嘩啦啦啦啦
huá  lā huá         

Thursday 24 May 2012

生日快樂 shēng rì kuài lè (happy birthday)


生日快樂
zhù nǐ shēng rì kuài lè

Happy birthday to all the birthday boys and girls in May - we have 6 birthday parties this month and its the busiest month of the year!  Thank you for a dear friend Connie who gave me this wonderful idea and children really enjoyed the 5 minutes of decorating the 
杯子蛋糕 bēi  dàn gāo 
with 奶油糖霜 nǎi   yóu táng shuāng!
Visit Connie's website for personalised cakes for all occasions.

Monday 21 May 2012

Mandarin Chinese Summer Camp in Dublin

We are drafting the timetable for our first ever two-weeks summer camp!
It is so hard to pack so many activities, ideas & fun stuff into two weeks and we'll make sure this will be a great camp to kick off our children's summer holiday 2012!

The cost is 100 euro per child per week.  This is aim to be a 90% immersion camp with conversational skills. The activities include games, singing, dancing, varies culture/Chinese cooking workshops, story & video, speech & drama project and outdoor games.  Detailed time table will be available soon so watch this space!

Please book a place for your child/children by reply this email as you know I have very limited space.  Xiexienin.

Saturday 19 May 2012


Nihao!

We are so excited that we will be celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival (端午節 duān wǔ jié) in style this year!
You are invited to a very special party to celebrate the mid summer with us.
The school is planning a lot of fun activities for families and you will also have the opputinity to meet some Mandarin speaking community here so now its the time to show off your Mandarin Chinese!

The activities include story about this festival, making/tasting 粽子 zòng zǐ (savoury glutinous rice wrap in bamboo leaves), making paper dragon boat 龍舟 lóng zhōu, paper dragon boat race 划龍舟比賽  huá lóng zhōu bǐ sài, game of making the egg stand 立蛋 lì dàn, goodie bag, Taiwanese/Chinese tea/food and etc. Watch this space!


The school wil be running its first ever summer camp 夏令營 xià lìng yíng
which will be running for the first two weeks of July (2ndto 13th), 10-2 so 4 hours per day Mon to Fri. I have invited a Chinese teacher from another school to run this with me.

The cost is 100 euro per child per week. This is aim to be a 90% immersion camp with conversational skills. The activities include games, singing, dancing, varies culture/Chinese cooking workshops, story & video, speech & drama project and outdoor games. Detailed time table will be available soon.

Please book a place for your child/children by reply this email as you know I have very limited space. Xiexienin.

Tuesday 15 May 2012

Ready, steady...listen and draw!!

Most children like to draw and I am so proud and more amazed too how good and fast they can draw!

These drawings were done by my 2nd year students. I gave them a test where they listened to my sentences and draw. Each drawing only took about 2 minutes!  Well done children!

Monday 7 May 2012

童年 tóng nián Childhood

I just love this song since donkey years ago!  The older children on Thursdays' class started to learn this song last week and hopefully we'll be ready to perform this song to parents at the end of this term.
The homework was that they need to find as many as youtube videos about this song. Wish them luck!
Here's one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOib_26bFRo


池塘邊的榕樹上On the Banyan tree beside the pond
chí táng biān de róng shù shàng
知了在聲聲叫著夏天Cicadas were calling for Summer
zhī le zài shēng shēng jiào zhe xià tiān
操場邊的鞦韆上
On the swing beside the yard
cāo chǎng biān de qiū qiān shàng
只有蝴蝶停在上面Only butterflies stop on top
zhī yǒu hú dié tíng zài shàng miàn
黑板上老師的粉筆
On the black board, teacher's chalk
hēi bǎn shàng lǎo shī de fěn bǐ
還在拼命嘰嘰喳喳寫個不停was still chirping and writing endlessly
hái zài pīn mìng jī jī zhā zhā xiě gè bú tíng
等待著下課
Awaiting the class’ dismissal
děng dài zhe xià kè
等待著放學Awaiting the end of the school day
děng dài zhe fàng xué
等待遊戲的童年Awaiting the playful childhood
děng dài yóu xì de tóng nián
福利社裏面什麼都有
In the canteen all things can be found
fú lì shè lǐ miàn shí me dōu yǒu
就是口袋裏沒有半毛錢But there is no money in my pocket
jiù shì kǒu dài lǐ méi yǒu bàn máo qián
諸葛四郎和魔鬼黨
Zhuge 's Four and the Devil's Gang
zhū gě sì láng hé mó guǐ dǎng
到底誰搶到那支寶劍Who got that sword at the end
dào dǐ shuí qiǎng dào nà zhī bǎo jiàn
隔壁班的那個女孩
that girl next class
gé bì bān de nà gè nǚ hái
怎麼還沒經過我的窗前Why hasn't passed by my window
zěn me hái méi jīng guò wǒ de chuāng qián
嘴裏的零食snacks in my mouth
zuǐ lǐ de líng shí
手裏的漫畫comics  in my hand
shǒu lǐ de màn huà
心裏初戀的童年the first love of my childhood in my heart
xīn lǐ chū liàn de tóng nián
沒有人知道為什麼
No one knows why
méi yǒu rén zhī dào wéi shí m
太陽總下到山的那一邊The Sunset was always to that side of the mountain
tài yáng zǒng xià dào shān de nà yī biān
沒有人能夠告訴我
No one can tell me
méi yǒu rén néng gòu gào sù wǒ
山裏面有沒有住著神仙Has god live in the mountains or not
shān lǐ miàn yǒu méi yǒu zhù zhe shén xiān
多少的日子裏
how many days
duō shǎo de rì zǐ lǐ
總是一個人面對著天空發呆Always dazing the sky along
zǒng shì yī gè rén miàn duì zhe tiān kōng fā dāi
就這麼好
just so curious
jiù zhè me hǎo qí
就這麼幻想just so imaginative
jiù zhè me huàn xiǎng
這麼孤單的童年This lonely childhood
zhè me gū dān de tóng nián
總是要等到睡覺前
always wait until bedtime
zǒng shì yào děng dào shuì jiào qián
才知道功課只作了一點點Then realize the homework only done a little bit
cái zhī dào gōng kè zhī zuò le yī diǎn diǎn
總是要等到考試以後
always wait until after exams
zǒng shì yào děng dào kǎo shì yǐ hòu

才知道該唸的書都沒有唸Then realize haven’t study those should’ve read
cái zhī dào gāi diàn de shū dōu méi yǒu diàn
一寸光陰一寸金
An inch of time is an inch of gold
yī cùn guāng yīn yī cùn jīn
老師說過寸金難買寸光陰Teacher has said, that an inch of gold is impossible to buy an inch of time
lǎo shī shuō guò cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn
一天又一天
Day after day,
yī tiān yòu yī tiān
一年又一年year after year
yī nián yòu yī nián
迷迷糊糊的童年The blurry childhood
mí mí hú hú de tóng nián
一天又一天
Day after day,
yī tiān yòu yī tiān
一年又一年year after year
yī nián yòu yī nián
盼望長大的童the childhood that look forward to grow up
pàn wàng zhǎng dà de tóng nián

彩 虹 cǎi hóng (rainbow)


We learnt the colours before but hopefully this song will helps the children to remember them better.

                  
hóng chéng huáng lǜ
           
lán   diàn    zǐ
       
wǒ shì   cǎi hóng


大象 dà xiàn Elephant


This is a classic nursery rhyme and I have added a little extra for the children to learn their body parts.
Youtube video can be found here.

大象  大象
dà xiàn    dà xiàng
你的鼻子             /你的耳朵             /你的腳         /你的眼睛
nǐ   de  bí  zǐ       nǐ   de  ěr duō    nǐ  de jiǎo     nǐ  de yǎn jīng
wéi sh én me
那麼        /那麼大
nà me cháng     nà me dà

媽媽
mā mā shuō
鼻子長                /耳朵大          /腳大         /眼睛大
bí   zǐ  cháng     ěr duō dà    jiǎo dà     yǎn jīng
才是 漂亮
cái shì piào liàng