In this TEQ video, we will watch the Chinese language teacher, Yuan Zhao’s 11th-grade Chinese class at the Mamaroneck High School, New York. This video, "Looking at the Photos of a Past Trip", is an instructional activity to introduce and practice a sentence structure for talking about a past event. The Chinese teacher did this whole activity in context using target language - Chinese. The teacher has demonstrated how to teach Chinese grammar in context without using English. You will see that the students were gaining accuracy in using the new structure for talking about photos.

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Classroom Video

Watch Chinese language teacher Yuan Zhao demonstrating how teachers introduce and practice a sentence structure for talking about a past event using target language - Chinese.

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