Seventh graders learn Mandarin adjectives — 大 (dà), 小 (xiǎo), 好 (hǎo), 漂亮 (piàoliang) — and sort them into words that describe size and words that give an opinion.
Students will be able to…
Adjectives make your Mandarin colorful — big, small, good, pretty. What are they, and what do they describe?
Project this and sort each adjective into 大小 (dàxiǎo - size) or 意见 (yìjiàn - opinion).
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Adjectives make your Mandarin colorful — what do they describe?
Students learn.
Students practice.
Students speak.
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Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Novice-High).
Interpretive: understand adjectives.
Interpersonal: describe things.
Compare adjectives.
Connect to description.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students describe one object in Mandarin with an adjective (like “很大” - very big). A printable adjectives sheet is in the World Languages library.
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