Chinese language teacher Christina Xu, who teaches at the Walter Payton College Preparatory High School in Illinois, demonstrates how to use a variety of strategies to introduce new language items while talking with the students.

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Classroom Video

In this Chinese class, Christina Xu’s 9th graders from the Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, Illinois, are learning the unit "Inviting Friends to a Birthday Party". In this specific lesson, they are talking about how to make an invitation for a birthday party and how to respond to it. In this video, you will watch some selected video clips taken from a lesson period, which demonstrates how the teacher used a variety of strategies to introduce new language items while talking with the students. The video has also shown how the teacher reinforced learning for the new language items through different activities and prepared the students for the role-play tasks.

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