Circling #1 🏡♥ Playgroup Follow-up
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kircharaCIRCLING* -- DONE 6/8/19
Make a gray mouse out of play doh/clay Draw a mouse on the whiteboard. Have the (computing) mouse ready.
1. Start with the sentence "这是哥哥的鼠标 (shǔ biāo)."
During the circling session, I subsequently wrote 是, 对 (對) and 还是 (還是) on the board because the kids seemed hazy about the meaning.
2. At random, ask these questions:
- YES question: "这是哥哥的鼠标吗?"
- NO question:
"这是哥哥的老鼠吗?"
"这是弟弟的鼠标吗?"
- OR question: "这是哥哥还是弟弟的鼠标?"
- 5Wh + H question:
"这是谁的鼠标?"
"这是什么?"
- etc. following their interest and attention span
I used these index cards at random to prompt myself:
The different colors are for different parts of the sentence. Beginners only need three sets of colors. I assigned 这是 (red) 哥哥的 (yellow) and 鼠标 (green). The order of the cards within color sets should be mixed up to prevent circling from being predictable.
??? = (approximately) Who What Where When Why and How
Pause and point, Comprehension check, Recap, Pop up/highlight, Slow down (some more), 3fer
Circling Introspective:
- They are (thankfully) easily amused. They would sometimes intentionally give the wrong answer, pick up my shoe and say, "这是妈妈的老鼠," etc.
- River said he did not hear every single thing that I said because he got distracted, but he did understand everything he did hear. And that's the main goal of circling/TPRS**: comprehensible input.
- When I asked Brooks, "英文怎么说," he answered "big brother's computer mouse" instead of "This is big brother's computer mouse." Either he hasn't acquired that "这是" = "This is," or he usually doesn't translate Mandarin into English in his head.
* Here's a pdf from Terry Waltz's website that tells you how circling works.
** TPRS = Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling
1. Start with the sentence "这是哥哥的鼠标 (shǔ biāo)."
During the circling session, I subsequently wrote 是, 对 (對) and 还是 (還是) on the board because the kids seemed hazy about the meaning.
2. At random, ask these questions:
- YES question: "这是哥哥的鼠标吗?"
- NO question:
"这是哥哥的老鼠吗?"
"这是弟弟的鼠标吗?"
- OR question: "这是哥哥还是弟弟的鼠标?"
- 5Wh + H question:
"这是谁的鼠标?"
"这是什么?"
- etc. following their interest and attention span
I used these index cards at random to prompt myself:
The different colors are for different parts of the sentence. Beginners only need three sets of colors. I assigned 这是 (red) 哥哥的 (yellow) and 鼠标 (green). The order of the cards within color sets should be mixed up to prevent circling from being predictable.
??? = (approximately) Who What Where When Why and How
Pause and point, Comprehension check, Recap, Pop up/highlight, Slow down (some more), 3fer
Circling Introspective:
- They are (thankfully) easily amused. They would sometimes intentionally give the wrong answer, pick up my shoe and say, "这是妈妈的老鼠," etc.
- River said he did not hear every single thing that I said because he got distracted, but he did understand everything he did hear. And that's the main goal of circling/TPRS**: comprehensible input.
- When I asked Brooks, "英文怎么说," he answered "big brother's computer mouse" instead of "This is big brother's computer mouse." Either he hasn't acquired that "这是" = "This is," or he usually doesn't translate Mandarin into English in his head.
* Here's a pdf from Terry Waltz's website that tells you how circling works.
** TPRS = Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling
Terry Waltz' TPRS with Chinese Characteristics
Date: 2019-06-09 10:22 am (UTC)It won't apply to you if
1) Your kids/students have regular language input from multiple Chinese speakers,
2) Your kids are preschool age, and/or
3) You are fluent in Chinese.
It's currently sold for $10 (+ $5.95 shipping) instead of $25 here: https://fluencymatters.com/product/tprs-with-chinese-characteristics/
FYI it's a paperback, even though the product image LOOKS like it's hardbound.