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2.4 Reading for Fluency
Mandarin Chinese · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Read time-of-day words: 早上, 上午, 中午, 下午, 晚上
- Read clock times with 点, 分, 半, 刻, 差 on a 12-hour clock
- Read timetable sentences: 你们几点上汉语课? 我们每天下午 4 点上汉语课
- Build a talking wall on managing time in school
What you will be able to do
- identify time words and phrases in texts
- read short timetable texts fluently
- acknowledge that fluent reading of a time is what lets a class start together
Key questions
“How can we enhance reading fluency?”
Lessons
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Read 八点半, not English half past
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizRead 点 分 半 刻 差 on clock faces, keeping 点 level and 差 counting back to the next hour.
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汉语课是下午两点: read the timetable
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizRead a Kisumu school timetable with 两点 and 两点四十分, then build a talking wall on keeping time.