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Australian Open 2015

Page one for male players. (Lesson 1)

Page two for female players. (Lesson 2)

Use: Lead-in questions.

Set-up: a colour page per table

Q: 你喜欢谁?

A: 我喜欢[name]

 

Q: 你最喜欢谁?

A: 我最喜欢[name]

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/njziwiyo6wqxb6v/w02%20talk%20about%20ausopen.pdf?dl=0

 

 

Source: Social Leaderboard – Social – Australian Open Tennis Championships 2015 – Official Site by IBM.

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Australia has quanxi

January 31st, 2015 / / categories: Uncategorized /

Teach this sentence:
Why to teach it?
– nobody denies guanxi plays a crucial role in Chinese communities but many people feels Australia had a similar system. Is it it true? What are the similarities and differences.

What to teach?
– grammar 有、没(有)、就
– culture: concepts of 关系, how it influences people’s life / power and wealth distribution

How to teach it?
– a big question 🙂

「有關係就沒關係,沒關係就有關係」

柯文哲說,他前幾天和體育局官員談到,台北市12個運動中心的場所租出合約,租金計價方式都不一樣,所以他叫財政局定統一公式,體育局現在補助學校辦運動比賽的經費,過去很多是看交情、看關係,「有關係就沒關係,沒關係就有關係」,因此,未來他會要求把補助費申請表、補助標準等都上網公告,審核委員也要公開遴選,才能達到公開透明的目標。

Source: http://newtalk.tw/mobile/news_in.php?id=56354

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Next Chinese Language Teaching Project

January 16th, 2015 / / categories: Uncategorized /

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Use comics to teach languages

April 9th, 2014 / / categories: Uncategorized /

I stole the idea for you from alliance française de melbourne.

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iOS hidden new features

September 25th, 2013 / / categories: Uncategorized /

I’m quite happy with iOS 7. You can check these new features out.

I just realised that I can get a professional laid-out CV by using the export tab under Portfolio.

beautiful cv 2

Here is a simple example of using Comic Life.

comic life example 1_safe

 

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Best lesson plan template for sharing

August 12th, 2013 / / categories: Uncategorized /

I want to document and share more chinese lessons online. I wonder if there is a best template I can use.

I will share it on mediawiki. I am currently working on this template: http://han-yu.org/wiki/index.php/Template:LessonPlan

Once I finalise it, I will use it to share more lesson plans (particularly for teaching with ICT) and this can also be used on wikiversity.

 

Download from here: http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html

dimsum

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Mahara + BlueGriffon = Beautiful CV

August 11th, 2013 / / categories: Uncategorized /

I start making CVs at the moment. One of the leading tools for students is Mahara. I also use it for myself and it works really well. Unfortunately, there is a small flaw. You can’t print out your CV easily as a PDF file.

I tried copy&paste to MS Word, and then adobe Dreamwaver. Both aren’t satisfactory. Guess what, I know a free tool called BlueGriffon and after a quick adjustment. It produces great CVs.

You can download BlueGriffon from below.

BlueGriffon, The next-generation Web Editor based on the rendering engine of Firefox.