This week Miss. Fang and I decided to directly teach lesson 7 after learning the lesson 5. The reason is that the topic of both lesson 5 and lesson 7 are related to Chinese numbers. We believe that this adjustment of the teaching plan will help students learn the Chinese numbers better. Teaching practices on Monday and Wednesday show that this adjustment is feasible. In the cooperative teaching with Miss. Fang, I found a very interesting phenomenon, which is, she can tell the students some Chinese culture in Hungarian, such as the evolution of Chinese characters, the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and ground, Chang'e flying to the moon and so on. In my previous course on teaching Chinese as a foreign language, one teacher shared that a TCFL teacher who told his student the story about Chang'e flying to the moon was complained because the local people thought he was preaching. In order to avoid similar things, I will not tell the story of Chang'e flying to the moon in the teaching process. Miss. Fang's approach gave me a lot of inspiration. In the future teaching, I can properly tell some traditional Chinese culture appropriately. The purpose of telling is not simply to introduce Chinese culture to students, but to help students better learn Chinese. For example, the purpose of telling the story of Chang' e flying to the moon is to help students read the Chinese character "moon". My Tuesday and Thursday classes were also confirmed, including one-to-two classes in the Confucius Institute and one-to-six classes in the international schools. In general, students have different Chinese level on Tuesday and Thursday classes. Therefore, how to balance the teaching schedule is a big challenge. International school students are primary school students, so I will also face some classroom management problems during their teaching. This Saturday, the Confucius Institute held an activity, in which I showed the tea ceremony again. What I didn't expect was that there are so many people interested in Chinese tea. Maybe next time we need to prepare more hot water.
