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Mandarin Environment — 环境

Eleventh graders learn to discuss the environment in Mandarin — 保护环境 (protect the environment), 污染 (pollution), 回收 (recycle), 地球 (Earth) — so they can talk about one of the world’s biggest topics in Chinese.

Grade 11Huánjìng55 minutes1 class periodACTFL / CommunicativeExplicit teaching4 StandardsACTFL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Discuss the environment.
  • ✓Name issues.
  • ✓Say protect/recycle.
  • ✓Talk about the planet.
Essential Question

Protecting our planet matters everywhere. How do you talk about the environment — 环境 (huánjìng) — in Mandarin?

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Interactive Task
Explore · Interactive

Mandarin Environment Check

Project each item and have students answer about the environment in Mandarin.

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Answer each question about the environment in Mandarin.
The Lesson · Communicative Flow (Warm-Up · Present · Practice · Speak · Reflect)

55 minutes, five moves

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Warm-Up — Protecting Our Planet

6 min

How do you talk about the environment in Mandarin?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask an eco-habit.
  • Ask how to say it.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Share.
  • Guess.
  • Get ready.
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Present — Huánjìng

13 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Mandarin Environment Check.
  • Note 保护 and 污染.
  • Say them aloud.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Answer.
  • Note it.
  • Repeat.
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Practice — Practice

15 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say “保护环境.”
  • Name an eco action.
  • Say them aloud.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Name it.
  • Say.
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Speak — Speak

15 min

Students speak.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say one way to help.
  • Discuss pollution.
  • Ask a partner.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Discuss.
  • Ask.
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Reflect — Reflect

6 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say “回收.”
  • Name an issue.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Name it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Intermediate-High).

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Communication 1.2

Interpretive: understand eco words.

ACTFL
Connections 3.2

Connect to science and society.

ACTFL
Cultures 2.1

Explore eco-values.

ACTFL
Communication 1.1

Interpersonal: discuss the environment.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Eco picture cards.
  • Sentence frame: “我们要 ___.”
  • Use eco images.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with 回收 and 污染.
  • Use pictures.
  • Repeat aloud.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add 能源 (energy).
  • Debate an eco topic.
  • Make an eco poster.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🌍Eco images
  • 💻Mandarin Environment Check
  • 🗣️Audio
  • ✏️Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

环境 (huánjìng)environment保护 (bǎohù)to protect污染 (wūrǎn)pollution回收 (huíshōu)to recycle垃圾 (lājī)trash空气 (kōngqì)air地球 (dìqiú)Earth节约 (jiéyuē)to conserve
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
What does “保护环境” mean?
Protect the environment.
QUESTION 2
What does “污染 (wūrǎn)” mean?
Pollution.
QUESTION 3
What does “回收 (huíshōu)” mean?
To recycle.

Reflect: 环境.

Have students name one way to protect the environment in Mandarin (like 回收 — recycle). A printable environment sheet is in the World Languages library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Mandarin Environment (Huánjìng)Print
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Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: 保护 (bǎohù), 回收 (huíshōu), 地球 (dìqiú), 垃圾 (lājī), 污染 (wūrǎn), 环境 (huánjìng), 空气 (kōngqì), 节约 (jiéyuē)
  1. to protect
  2. to conserve
  3. Earth
  4. trash
  5. air
  6. to recycle
  7. pollution
  8. environment

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. What does “保护环境” mean?
  2. What does “污染 (wūrǎn)” mean?
  3. What does “回收 (huíshōu)” mean?
Answer key — Part A: 1) 保护 (bǎohù) · 2) 节约 (jiéyuē) · 3) 地球 (dìqiú) · 4) 垃圾 (lājī) · 5) 空气 (kōngqì) · 6) 回收 (huíshōu) · 7) 污染 (wūrǎn) · 8) 环境 (huánjìng)
Part B: 1) Protect the environment. 2) Pollution. 3) To recycle.