How to Use This Resource

Teaching notes

How to use this resource This resource, Chinese - Virtual shopping, is designed to support the Digital Education Revolution – NSW (DER-NSW) program. The resources and tasks are aimed at supporting student use of the DER-NSW laptops in both online and offline classroom environments.

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For more detailed support on how to use the DER-NSW laptop software referred to in this resource please visit the TaLe Tools+ site. If you have a Department of Education and Training portal identity go to www.tale.edu.au > log in to the Secondary section > Tools+ is a link in the top right of the page. If not, visit the Parents & community section of TaLe and choose the quick link to DER-NSW laptop resources on the right side of the page.

In Chinese - Virtual shopping students complete a number of activities based on an online resource. They then work on a number of creative tasks which incorporate the learning from the initial online activity.

Explore Students explore a virtual shopping tour. They are exposed to authentic texts related to Chinese shopping areas and products. To assist students in their exploration, a number of URLs of Chinese shopping centres and online shopping sites are provided. Sometimes sites are unavailable or change over time. If this happens, students can search entering appropriate key words into their search engine.

Students exercise their skills in selecting and summarising information by recording details of their shopping experience in a Word document. Students then use the information from these notes to produce a talk about their virtual shopping experience

Before writing their script, students can listen to a model and make notes in English on the worksheet provided.

In their talk, students can include information about what they bought, where they bought it and who they bought it for. Students are also encouraged to justify the appropriateness of the gifts selected for each person.

1 © NSW DET 2009 Your tasks

Create an online catalogue in Chinese This activity can be individual, pair or small group work.

It is recommended that students create the first draft of their catalogue in their notebooks. Teachers can check the drafts before the students publish their final versions.

Create a radio commercial in Chinese This activity can be individual, pair or small group work, building on the first task – create an online catalogue.

It is recommended that students write the first draft in their notebook for teachers to check it. They can then rehearse it before recording it.

If recording hardware and audio editing software is not available, students can still present their radio commercial orally. Setting up a desk with a fake microphone may help to create an atmosphere for students to act out the role of a radio announcer.

Create a role-play This activity is group work, building on the first and second tasks. Pre-learning of relevant expressions and linguistic structures related to the topic of ‘shopping’ will assist students to complete this task.

It is recommended that students write the first draft of their role-play in their notebooks for teachers to check. They can then rehearse it before filming or recording it.

When every group has submitted their videos, the class can then judge the videos. Prizes could be awarded for different categories eg the videos featuring ‘the best shopper of the year’, ‘the best shop assistant of the year’ etc.

If filming hardware and video editing software is not available, students can still present their role-play. As an alternative, they can use digital presentation media such as Windows Movie Maker, PowerPoint, Captivate etc. to create videos incorporating still images and audio.

Quality Teaching This resource supports the following elements of Quality Teaching:  Cultural knowledge  Student direction  Engagement

Intercultural Language Learning This resource provides the opportunity for students to:  use the Chinese language purposefully  draw upon aspects of their own personal life  develop the capability to engage with difference.

2 © NSW DET 2009 Cross-curriculum content This resource assists students to develop their skills in:  ICT: through accessing up-to-date information about Chinese-speaking countries and communities to enhance classroom learning  Key Competencies: through working with others and in teams; using technology.

Support links  Syllabus links: identifies which syllabus is targeted by this resource.  Feedback link: allows for teachers and students to provide feedback to the publisher on the effectiveness of this resource.  Teaching notes: links to this document.