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2.3 Reading for Understanding
Mandarin Chinese · Grade 9 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Active reading: underlining and categorising pets, farm and wild animals in texts (宠物、家畜、野生动物)
- Paraphrasing descriptions with different adjectives (大、小、胖、瘦、快、慢、调皮); jumbled sentences; talking walls on caring for animals
What you will be able to do
- outline vocabulary related to animals from texts
- paraphrase the key points from a reading text
Key questions
“What strategies can you use to actively read texts?”
Lessons
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Active reading: my favourite animal
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizRead a short story, underline animal words, sort them into categories and read them aloud.
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Rephrasing and ordering sentences about animals
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizRephrase animal descriptions with different adjectives and rearrange jumbled words into sentences.