Q&A - P1 Chinese

[hellokittyspore]

merkon:

Hi parents!


My son is going p1 next year. We will enrol him into a singapore school in July/August this year but he won't be able to start school in January as the family will be away for a year. I am worried about his Chinese cos he's already quite bad in the language and he won't be able to receive the foundation in p1 next year.

I have to teach him chinese myself while overseas and would like to ask experienced parents for recommendations on books/enrichment materials that would help in his Chinese in p1. So far, I only thought of bringing the p1 Chinese textbook and hanyu pinyin materials. Any other recommendations? Thanks in advance!

Hi Merkon,

You might want to bring some oral, listening comprehension guide along. In P1, students will be reviewed based on their oral and listening comprehension skill. You can also consider getting a set of https://www.popular.com.sg/jsp/product/product_detail.jsp?vca001=314&vpd001=64126 1A and 1B to play with your ds when you are overseas.

[Green-apple 0]

Dear All,


Do we need to prepare script for the Chinese Oral if the school has pre-determine some questions?

[zarahsmom]

yes, there are books/materials/teacher's guide (with or without CDs) which provides \"model\" prompt questions (questions that teacher's ask to prompt the child to start talking or steer them in the right topic) and \"model\" answers....


applies to both listening comprehension and picture discussion...

my daughter who is non-chinese CANNOT even form a sentence in chinese in the beginning of the year.. scored 85% on her listening comprehension assessment..with help from this..

https://www.popular.com.sg/jsp/product/product_detail.jsp?vca001=345&vpd001=82863

[destineeC]

Can any KSparents advise me how do I use the flashcards to teach DS?


My DS has minimal interest to Chinese. And he doesn’t remember most Chinese characters & his vocabulary is limited.

Seldom communicate in Chinese.

[hellokittyspore]

destineeC:

Can any KSparents advise me how do I use the flashcards to teach DS?


My DS has minimal interest to Chinese. And he doesn't remember most Chinese characters & his vocabulary is limited.

Seldom communicate in Chinese.

You need to start to communicate to your ds in Mandarin.
If your ds is well verse in English, you can try to start him off by having one side of the flashcard written in English and the other side in its equivalent word in Chinese. Play with him daily until he is well verse with all the chinese characters. Once he knows all the chinese characters, encourage him to start to construct short sentenses using the words available. This method works for my dd, you might want to try out.

[Fruitart]

well…im a kiasu mum…for my k2 girl, I send her to tuition centre for chinese class. She loves it cause there is games plus writing and teaching them how to do show and tell. haha. Everytime act it out in front of me.

[poseidon123]

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Champion:

Hi! My DD2 who is K2 this year is learning 量词 in her Kindergarten and also her Chinese Enrichment class.

Let me get home tonite and search for the materials and see whether I can upload here tml to share with you all.

Here is her 听写 for the 量词.
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[sembgal]

The New Chinese Language curriculum for primary school.


http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/primary/files/changes-to-pri-chinese-curriculum-english-brochure.pdf

[sembgal]

A very useful app to download from App Store.


Chinese 字宝宝 for primary students

destineeC:

Can any KSparents advise me how do I use the flashcards to teach DS?

My DS has minimal interest to Chinese. And he doesn't remember most Chinese characters & his vocabulary is limited.

Seldom communicate in Chinese.

[aqualuna]

hi to all parents with P1 kids


I have a qn with regards to hypy

Is there any known rule for using light tone/ no tone in a character?