Speak

Interpersonal

• Students video-record themselves chatting with a native speaker on a given topic, or completing a transaction.

Models:

Ordering dimsum

Mark Zuckerberg answering questions at Tsinghua University

Presentational

• Students prepare and deliver a speech on a preset topic, or a topic of their choice.

Models:

A humorous speech by Diana Watson that won a Confucius Institute Chinese Bridge speech competition

Comedian Jesse Appell talks about learning and teaching Chinese

Comedian Dashan (Mark Rowswell) performs a skit called Four Famous Dishes

• Instructions for a poem recitation project during the first semester of Chinese.