Aim (in terms of subject matter): learn names of jobs.
Aim (in terms of thinking): learn to associate ideas implied by characters.
Task description: a quick task for relaxation: guess jobs on the basis of meanings of the characters which they consist of. For example:
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工程师gōngchéngshī 工 gōng – work 程chéng – plan 师 shī – master |
工人 gōngrén 工 gōng – work 人 rén – person
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推销员tuīxiāoyuán 推 tuī – push 销 xiāo – sell 员yuán – employee |
Procedures: the students read the characters and guessed the jobs by shouting their ideas. It would be better to do it in groups, not with the whole class together. The teacher added synonyms, described the jobs so that the students could guess. This task was done with 13-year-olds and with 18-year-olds, the younger students had more difficulties, probably because their general knowledge is smaller.
Overall reflectionof the task: It is an achievement if 13-year-olds to learn the jobs. For 18-year-olds it is a good idea to extend the task and ask them to work with the separate characters (eg, find out in which words these characters are used and make riddles for classmates).
The 1st step of the thinking framework: students have to connect ideas suggested by characters in order to guess jobs.
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