Message from vchiu

[Anonymous]

One of the warm-up activity we do in my Chinese class is asking students (in Chinese) to "Walk to the map, and point out where is 'Si Chuan'." "请你走到地图那里，指一指四川在哪里。“ Students will be able to be trained in their listening comprehension, as well as being able to point to a particular location in China. I switch the location only once a week. So for five days, we will point to the same location, but I will call on different students to point to the same location for a whole week.

Some teachers like to do calendar at the beginning of the class. I do the calendar, and the map. It only take about one to two minutes out of the class time, and yet the map-pointing can be built as one of the daily routine.