Overview: This OER Presentational Activity - Venn Diagram was created by Shan Li  and as part of the 2024 World Language OER Summer work and training. Educators worked with Chrystal Liu, Nick Zeigler and Dorann Avey to create OER Learning Plans and materials. The attached Lesson Plan activity is designed for 9 - 12 World Language Arts teachers for student learning of Novice High Learners of Chinese. Students will do group discussion and share their ideas in class by using Venn Diagram to do their presentational activities. They can discuss pros, cons of the technology use, compare their interesting topic use between their own country and the target language countries. Topics students can use in discuss such as: reviews of online comments, technollogy use in two countries, movie, digital money, etc. Also, teachers can use this as interpersonal activities beyond this presentational acitivity. This Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE World Language Standard(s): NE: 1.1  1.2. 1.3  NE: 2.1  2.2 NE: 3.1 NE; 4.2. It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 45 minutes to complete.    

In this activity students will be practice telling time in Chinese, as well as create schedules to describe their daily lives. Students will also practice listening comprehension by accurately responding to prompts given by the instructor.

In this activity students will be practice telling time in Chinese, as well as create schedules to describe their daily lives. Students will also practice listening comprehension by accurately responding to prompts given by the instructor.

In this activity students will be practice telling time in Chinese, as well as create schedules to describe their school lives, and describe school subjects. Students will also practice interviewing with each other by sharing their school life and make comments on culture understanding about school life in America and China. 

In this activity students will be practice telling time in Chinese, as well as create schedules to describe their daily lives. Students will also practice listening comprehension by accurately responding to prompts given by the instructor. Students also will build cultural understanding on school life between China and America.

In this activity, students will practice and reinforce their knowledge of the three ‘de’ particles (的，地，得）by rolling a dice with all three particles on it and creating sentences using different category cards from a word bank. Students are also encouraged to add their own vocabulary to personalize their sentences and be as creative as possible.

In this activity, students will practice listening comprehension and recognizing different tones in Mandarin Chinese. Students will write correct and accurate tones after listening to the instructor speak the short sentences and phrases out loud, then read back their answers to check accuracy and practice speaking with accurate tones.

In this activity students will use an interactive Google Slideshow to choose different places around China to explore a mini trip to that place. Students will choose a location, and in that location they will choose an activity and food based on limited clues, allowing each choice to be a surprise and expose students to different experiences in China they might not have known about previously.

In this activity students will look through a series of brochures for tour trips to different cities in China. Students will take on the role of a travel agent and plan a trip to China for a client. Students will then share their individual travel itineraries for their clients with the group and describe their choices.

The VAVA is a collecion of royalty-free audio and video files for teachers to use in their own creative exercises. We have also developed a small number of sample exercises that utilize material from the VAVA. The LCTL Project encourages teachers of all LCTLs to cooperate in developing new VAVA exercises using audio or video materials. Individual exercises might be very simple listening practice, or they might be more complex, integrating sounds, video clips into reading, writing, speaking and listening activities for students.The VAVA currently contains audio for the following languages: Arabic (Tunisa), Chinese (Mainland and Taiwan), Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish.

"My name is Sata Vanasouk and I’m a media arts major at Boise State University, minoring in Chinese studies and global studies. My project, Visualizing Chinese, aims to intersect storytelling and language learning through colorful illustrations and unique little stories. It is important to note that this work is more vocabulary-focused."

-Sata Vanasouk

Case studies from forward-thinking students, educators, content developers, and technologists carrying the banner of Open Education in language learning.

In this activity students will practice answering who, what, when, where, why questions about themselves, their likes and dislikes, and hobbies. Students will roll a picture dice and answer a question that corresponds with the picture. Each round the questions will change and get slightly more complex.

In this activity students will play an “around the world” game to express and explain their preferences when it comes to weather and temperature. Each round, students will choose a photo that best represents their opinion and will then explain to other students why they have that opinion.

In this activity students will play an “around the world” game to express and explain their preferences when it comes to weather and temperature. Each round, students will choose a photo that best represents their opinion and will then explain to other students why they have that opinion.

4-6 weeks of distance (remote) learning content provided for middle through high school-level world language programs: Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean & Spanish courses. These units were adapted from existing Unit & Pacing guides created by teachers from Tacoma Public Schools in Washington State.

In this activity, students will practice using 怎么 and 怎么这么 to create “how” questions to describe how to do something and to create emphasis when asking how something could be a certain way. Students will use cards to help them build sentences.

在内容的取舍上，本书主要包括了重要的动物汉字的起源、它们的字形以及与现代楷体字的联系，从这些字衍生出的其他字、它们的常见用法及文化含义，并展示了历史对当今的持续影响，也阐释了汉字产生发展背后的思维理念。

English Description: This book discusses the origins of important Chinese characters for animals, the original characters used, and their connections to modern characters. In addition to showing the evolution of the character for "horse," for example, other characters that are derived from these characters are also discussed, along with their common uses. By exploring the development of characters for animals, this book serves as a jumping-off point to explore the continuous influence of history on the present day.