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2.6 Reading for Fluency

Mandarin Chinese · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Underline kitchen tools and ingredients: 烤箱, 冰箱, 菜板, 刀, 锅, 铲子, 木勺, 糖, 盐, 油, 葱, 西红柿, 蒜
  • Read-along food names and methods: 鸡蛋, 鱼, 羊肉, 牛肉, 猪肉, 鸡肉, 乌加利, 米饭, 蔬菜, 煮, 炒, 炸, 煎, 蒸, 炖, 烤
  • Read a meal-preparation dialogue; rearrange jumbled cooking sentences
  • Peer-read a recipe line for constructive fluency feedback

What you will be able to do

  • compile kitchen and food vocabulary from texts
  • read simple food texts fluently for comprehension
  • show interest in applying fluency across a dialogue and a jumbled recipe

Key questions

“How does reading fluency help in effective communication?”

Lessons

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  1. Underline 锅 and 油, then read the list
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Underline kitchen tools and flavour words, then read a stew shopping list without collapsing 西红柿.
  2. 乌加利要煮: read the method
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Read seven cooking methods, answer a short dialogue, and unjumble food + 要/可以 + method lines.