Archeolon Turtle

 This is a drawing for another English / Chinese book I am working on; 恐龙国, Kǒng lóng guó (Dinosaur Land).

Lingua, Frank.A

Introducing Mr Frank.A Lingua, Languages teacher extraordinaire! A multi-poly-glot of numerous languages who currently teaches at St. Jerome's College. He cheerily takes on many of the challenges and complexities that many of his fellow languages teachers also face on a daily basis.

Teacher Excellence Program - 2022 - Teacher Profiles

 It's been a little while since I've posted - I can put a lot of this down to busyness.

This year I've been participating in the Victoria Academy's "Teacher Excellence Program". As a part of this we had to submit a teacher profile at the start of the program and at the end. Here is mine for Term 1;

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival

Hot off the press!

A title page for Junior and Middle Primary, celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival.

Teaching Chinese with Rudi the Orang-utan

G'day! Check out the link below. I use a few of my Chinese flash cards in the show, too!

https://youtu.be/rkGlQTChe6Q

Chinese Flash Cards

I've been working on a few flash cards to use with my online classes this term. Here's a few samples. The Grade 1/2 classes are looking at the theme: Food (starting with fruit). The Grade 3/4 classes are looking at the theme: Vehicles & Transport. 

Rudi's Favourite Fruit

 

As the majority of the world starts looking to conduct education online, this is a work sheet I have created for my Grade 1/2 classes in Chinese. Rudi the Orangutan is showing the students some of his favourite fruit. Rudi is a puppet who used to help me teach Indonesian when I was working at Rochester Primary School. He is now making a a new appearance with my younger students. They find it funny how Rudi is fluent in Indonesian, but now he has to learn Bahasa Cina (Chinese)!

Tiga Sekolah dan CINTA - Board Display

This is a board display I created back in 2010 while hosting three teachers from Indonesia. Two of these teachers came form schools in Bali and the third came from East Java. At the time I had a network running with four local schools in Campaspe Shire (including mine). To help celebrate I created this display on my classes pin board. It took about a week to complete as I was trying to create a to-scale map of of Jawa Timur and Bali. A lot of fun to do and my students were able to learn a little of where our visitors came from.

Xin Nian Kuaile 2018 (Happy New Year, 2018)

Drawn a year ago for Chinese New Year. This was a lot of fun to draw, and based on the Chinese paper cut art.

Kevin Koala in Shanghai - Part One

This is the first Kevin Koala comic where I used Comic Life 3 as a means of adding text.

Numbers & Greetings worksheet

This is a part of a Numbers and Greetings worksheet I drew for teaching Chinese. I was quite happy with how it looked. Simple but very effective.

Chinese Food Nouns work sheet

The illustrations for this one were quick as well as fun to draw. Adding colour with poster textas adds to the visual appeal.

Chinese Student visit to Cobram Anglican Grammar School

Hot off the press this week for some visiting Chinese students to the school. This was great fun to draw. The blue and green colours of the dragon represents growth and learning while the native koala can be found residing in the red gum forests around Cobram/Barooga.

In addition, the dragon has nine green scales down its back. The number nine is considered a very lucky number in Chinese culture.

Chinese Language Award - Second Edition

This is the same award as shown earlier, but with clouds added. One of my students, who migrated from China a few years ago, suggested that I add traditional Chinese illustration clouds. It certainly improves the picture!

Another activity for Chinese this week. This is a cut up sentence activity aimed at Middle Primary.
The completed sentences read; 
Zhè shì wǒ de lóng. Wǒ de lóng shì huángsè de. Tā de míngzì shì Qiáng dà. 

Chinese Language Award

Hot off the press... A Chinese Language Award for school.  This involved a little research, too. For example, the colour of the dragon, the number of claws and the little globe that it is chasing.

This took a little while to complete, due to the detail, but it is certainly worth it.

Chinese Characters

A while ago I came across a fun activity of writing your name in Chinese characters. Each letter of the English alphabet had an equivalent character that looked similar in appearance. Here's my initials (GPB) below.

Choosing Good Paper!

This is a good lesson in choosing good quality paper. Unfortunately the paper is too waxy and won't absorb the ink from the pens and colour shaders. So the dog and pig don't appear bright and colourful, just dirty and a little smudged.  Not to worry. Back to the drawing board (so to speak).

Indonesian flash cards

These drawings are a lot of fun and fairly quick to do.  The idea is to have four cards of each alphabet letter so as to play Memory, Go Fish, Snap! or any other type game to help remember Indonesian vocabulary.

Chinese Numbers 1 to 8

I've always found that a good way to learn another language is to teach it. These are a sample of Chinese number cards.  They can be used for memory and snap.