1 《国际汉语教师证书》面试培训课程 英文问答补充材料 1、How can you guide your students to pronounce ‘ü’? We can start from ‘i’, then keeping saying ‘ee’, meanwhile, round your lips, And finally you’ll get ‘ü’. 2、How can you teach four tones? We can divide our ‘[sound] pitch’ into 5 degrees. 5 is the highest and 1 the lowest. Flat tone; rising tone; falling tone 1st tone is very high-pitched. For example ‘ā’, it sounds like you are seeing a doctor. 2nd tone is a rising one. It sounds like you have a question: ‘what?’ 3rd tone sounds quite sleepy… 4th tone is a falling one. It sounds like you are angry. ‘No! Stop!’ 3、How can you teach Chinese characters? Step 1: Start from simple picture-like ones. 人 、 女 、 子 、 母 、 日 、 月 Step 2: Try to involve more Chinese characters as if they are related to each other in certain ways. When they look similar 人 大 天 夫 太 When they have the same sound-part 马 吗 妈 巴 爸 吧 把 When they have the same radical 妈 姐 妹 Step 3: Put characters together to form a word, and then a meaningful sentence. 2 4、What are you going to say and to do if your students have told you that they just want to focus on listening and speaking and that they don’t want to learn characters? Differentiation (因人而异/因材施教) Demands (需求) Learning objectives (学习目标) Motivations/motives (动力) Time spent on learning（学习时间） 1）Make it crystal clear in the first place: Characters are vital for your Chinese learning, particularly when you move to a higher level. 2）Consider their own situation; acceptable; learn as many characters as possible 3）encourage, but not force 5、Explain complements of result. 1）What’s a CR? W...
