What's included
12 live meetings
10 in-class hoursClass Experience
I am going to introduce and teach 101 regular Chinese idioms to students within six weeks. This course will cover: Week1. Educational idioms and regular idioms for children Week2. Fable stories and frequent idiom for young people Week3. Historical stories Week4. Quotes from literature Week5. Quotes from celebrities Week6. Smart idioms in daily conversations My class will be structured with three parts:the teachers instructions, students feedback, and the interactions between students and teacher. I will introduce each idiom via background story or related pronunciation and definition, along with a couple of effective strategies of comprehensive and memorizing. We will try to recite and do role-play to emphasize some sight idioms. I like to arrange presentations, pair-work or group work to make students get involved , I am also familiar with specific lecture, games, slides, video clips, discussion, etc. My students love to draw idioms, to use play doh to build an idiom story, to observe a good example of their learned idioms via famous speeches, picture books or some pop music. My teaching style is very active and student-centered. I always notice the differentiation of my students. I will try my best to activate every student, get them involved into the wisdom and language acquisition of idioms. I hope this course will start based on 400-500 vocabulary. 接触成语是学习中文的中高级阶段,对于初中级学习者而言,成语也是了解中国文化的一个重要窗口。这个101成语课程是针对海外汉语学习者设计的,我们将从故事内容,关键词详解,故事展示,语言点听说读写一条龙配套训练等着眼点给学生设计生动有趣的课堂学习,让学生更加具象地学习和了解中国文化。
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External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Teacher expertise and credentials
My name is Yuping Zeng. I am Chinese teacher .I live in LA. I am a mother of two boys. I like watching movies, going to the beach, and hiking. In my spare time, I do craft and knitting and listen to music too.
My strengths are language teaching and short story writing. I taught Russian for 17 years. I taught Chinese to foreign students since 2003. I taught both English and Chinese in America. My students are a diverse group of people, with widely varying ages and skill levels. I have attention to detail. I am good at working along with others. I have a talent(facility) for language acquisition. I have a good instinct for learning and applying the language I have learned.
Here are the classes I taught before and teach now:
Chinese language for beginners, intermediate and advanced courses.
AP Chinese Test preparation and SATII Chinese preparation courses.
Chinese calligraphy courses.
Chinese cooking and language.
Travel to China without leaving America(Chinese history ,geography and culture)
From picture books to the Chinese Classic.
I have a PhD in Russian literature. I am studying TESOL in APU recently.
I loving teaching. I think that I should prepare very detailed for the input part of language teaching in order to encourage and lead students to output what they comprehend and learn through this training.
My students and I are always happy the rewrite the textbooks we have learned. It is a real blessing when we realize those materials exist just for improvement of our language proficiency.
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Live Group Class
$369
for 12 classes2x per week, 6 weeks
50 min
Completed by 1 learner
Live video meetings
Ages: 8-13
6-13 learners per class