Thank you so much to Audrey Blake (Scottish Opera),
Judith McKerrecher (SCILT Professional Development Officer) and to her colleagues from the Confucius Institute for Scotland’s Schools (CISS) for providing such high quality language learning workshops for our P5 pupils on Monday 30th March. Judith began by sharing Scottish Opera's Warriors! ebook and it was wonderful to see how many lyrics and how much Mandarin pupils have already picked up.
We were then treated to three fantastic language learning workshops:
Numbers
Colours - Beijing opera masks
Calligraphy
Families are in for a real treat on Wednesday 6th May when our P5s team up with our friends from Scottish Opera for 'Warriors!'
SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages 苏格兰国家语言中心
www.strath.ac.uk/ciss
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| Learning Mandarin using Scottish Opera's Warriors ebook |
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| Calligraphy lessons |
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| How to hold a calligraphy brush |
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| Beautifully made brushes |
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| Load with ink to form a point at the end of the brush |
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| Chinese characters |
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| Now it's as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4 - and the pupils all know these numbers in Mandarin |
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| How Chinese characters have developed over time |
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| A helping hand |
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| Great concentration |
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| Judith teaches colours using Beijing Opera masks |
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| Judith kindly let all the children look at her model Terracotta Warriors and Masks |
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| Can you say the colours, P5? |
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| Catherine helped the children learn numbers in Mandarin |
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| Pupils practised saying numbers and writing them |
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| Thank you SCILT and Confucius Institute! |
