Winter holiday project 1

Because we are planning a field trip to China, I asked my students to plan a five day four night trip to China as the winter holiday project.

I asked them to take the best advantage of voicethread.com, one of my favorite websites. It takes time to practice using this website. The disadvantage is if you try to upload a power point in Chinese, the characters normally will disappear after you upload it. I told my students not to worry about the characters but focusing on recording the voice. Some of them used movie maker and upload the movie they made,it's very cool, but sometimes it's really slow to upload a movie.

This class just finished the first book of the , so I don't expect them to do much, the main purpose of the project is simply to find out some interesting places in China to go, the good food to eat, and then share with their classmates.

When they came back to school after the holiday, I asked them to do an oral presentation again in front of the class, the difference is they can't rely on the voice they recorded in advance. It turned out to be a good oral practice, because they often wrote a script and read it when they did it at home.

For my advanced students who finished the first half of the , I asked them to do a food project, introduce the background of the Chinese dish, explain the ingredients and steps of how to make it. I asked them to do it because they will have an opportunity soon to make their own dumplings. The school is very supportive, they asked the canting to prepare the ingredients, and let students use their space.

We are going to make dumplings this Thursday before the Vietnamese new year holiday, I wish the dumplings will taste good (actually my mum just taught me how to make dumplings during the Christmas Break,so I'm not experienced at all)