If you teach Chinese, or you are a parent trying to get a child to enjoy it, this course gives you a complete set of games that need nothing more than a pack of word cards. By the end you will run 20 activities (basic rules plus variations) that make repetition fun, so your learners practise more without noticing.
What you’ll be able to do
- Choose classroom games over board games, and know why the difference matters
- Make your own multi-purpose card set in five minutes
- Run three vocabulary games that drill reading, recognition and tones
- Run four sentence games that get learners speaking in full sentences
- Run two text games that turn a reading passage into a puzzle
- Rotate 20 basic and variant rules so the same cards never get boring
- Adapt the games to English, other languages or other school subjects
How the course works
- Short video lessons, one game per lesson, with animated rule explanations
- Real classroom footage so you see each game played with students
- Every game comes with variations to change the difficulty or the group size
- Activities are grouped by what they practise: words, sentences, then texts
- Lesson notes are downloadable as PDFs
What’s inside
- 4 units, 14 video lessons, 1 hour 50 minutes of video
- 20 games in total: 9 basic activities and their variations
- Three psychology-based reasons to build lessons on word cards
- A final lesson on the common problems of game-based learning and how to solve them
Who this course is for
- Chinese teachers who need fresh, low-preparation activities
- Parents raising children abroad who want them to like Chinese
- Teachers of English or other languages who want games that transfer to their subject
- Kindergarten, primary and secondary teachers who want to add their own content to the game rules
Before you start
- No teaching experience needed
- The lessons are taught in Mandarin with Traditional Chinese on screen
About the teacher
The course is taught by a native Mandarin teacher at a university in Taiwan who has run game-based learning workshops for schools and universities in Taiwan, Europe and North America.
