This week, we continued extending our animal theme to body parts. We sang the TWO TIGERS song once more, but in a creative way, adding up to four tigers and each of them had one body part missing: ears (er-duo耳朵), eyes (yan-jing 眼睛), nose (bi-zi 鼻子) and mouth (zui-ba 嘴巴).
The "Clench Your Fist, Open Your Fist (wo jin quan tou, da kai quan tou)" song is still a bit challenging to the kids. If you would like to spend some time practicing it after class, here's a video link to a similar version of it:
However, our version goes like this:
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| The Lyrics of Our "Fist/拳头" Song |
To review the key words, we played matching games, where the students were asked to mach the sound and the meaning of each Chinese character that represents the body parts.
After the kids mastered those basic vocabulary, I taught them a fun, traditional Chinese children's game: 指鼻子（zhi-bi-zi, meaning: pointing to your nose). It 's a game you can play almost anywhere, anytime, as long as you can find a partner to play with. In this game, two kids team up and take turns to be the caller. The other person, the actor, needs to follow the caller's order/words, pointing to a facial feature as quickly and accurately as possible. When playing, the caller holds one of the actor's hands and give it a gentle pat when calling out aloud the name of a facial feature. For each call, the actor's another hand needs to start from and come back to his or her nose (maybe that's why it's called "pointing to your nose"). The prompt response of the actor, to the caller's verbal calls, is the key. The laughter then comes whenever there's a mistake made by the actor! I hope you all enjoyed this game!
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