Diane shares three video links of her doing Listen and Draw with a Chinese 4 class on YouTube:
“In a Chinese 4 class I once filmed, I had two targets: “outside the city” and “not far from the mountains”. I had noticed my students were not confident about locational phrases, which in Chinese have two words surrounding the location, so they feel quite different from English. So, while the “located outside” phrase is not new to them, they hadn’t acquired it yet, and the word “city” was new to all of them. Likewise, “mountain” as well as the phrasing for “not far from” were new, though they were familiar with “far.” I’m new at my school this year and they’ve done a great job adapting to how I teach. They’re a motivated and fun group. We’ve been working towards reading The Lady in the Painting.