Teaching English and Chinese: Body Parts in Chinese

I'm happy to announce that I've finally accomplished my new lesson on Body Parts in Chinese. It's been almost a month of writing, testing with my students and adjusting.

It is a very easy no-prep lesson that introduces 12 new words. Four adjectives (big, small, long, short) and nine body parts (head, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, hair, hands, feet, body) It contains 56 pages and is designed for 3-4 hours of teaching.
It is not a secret that one of the most effective ways for students to understand new concepts is through hands-on activities. Students learn more when they enjoy their time.
I included as many fun activities as possible. The lesson has big colourful flashcards with pictures and pinyin, as well as flashcards without pictures, with just characters, which the characters flashcards without pictures can be used for review.

Please, also check my article 10 Ways to Use Flashcards

It is made for kindergarten and primary students, but some of the exercises can be extended to older children as well. There are bright posters and worksheets to match all the body parts. There is a version for boys and a version for girls.

This lesson has big printables for each new character to colour. They are big enough to colour with play dough or some stickers. Smaller kids can enjoy colouring with their fingers, or the printable can be used as a poster. It can also be laminated to provide a more physical activity, such as jumping on the right character. The characters can also be cut out from coloured paper so the students can create their own posters.
There are plenty of ways to use them.

Children love to search for hidden objects, so I added "I Spy" sheets for all the new words. Students can either colour the targeted characters or as shown on the picture below, use plastic chips to highlight the characters. This way it helps to save the paper and it can be reused again later.

There are plenty of interesting drawing, colouring, matching, cutting and pasting activities to help young learners remember the characters in a fun and interactive way.

Some of the tasks are also designed to fit in a notebook.

I also included handwriting practice sheets for each word, and a list of songs together with youtube links, that can be used as an extension of the lesson. It contains progress monitoring sheets.