PROJECT: "APARTMENT ADVERTISEMENT" (公寓出租广告)
Challenge:
In-Class Activity:
- In a group of two, CREATE AN APARTMENT ADVERTISEMENT for a real Beijing apartment.
- Talk about its features and explain why it’s the best apartment deal on the market.
- The finished poster should be organized, creative, and professional.
- TARGET: see rubric for details.
In-Class Activity:
- Display your advertisement around the classroom.
- Gallery Walk Activity:
- RENTER: one person in the group. You are trying to rent an apartment in Beijing. Walk around the classroom and visit each of the different Landlords.
- Your total monthly budget is ¥8000 per month per apartment. (The budget refreshes for each apartment; you're acting as different "renter" each time.) Remember that you are also using this budget to pay for many other daily necessities like food, transportation, etc). Decide your own reasonable price point.
- Ask about the features of its apartment, its location, its price, deposits, etc.
- Feel free to negotiate prices.
- When you are ready to rent an apartment, fill out the Renter Card with your name and the monthly rent and give it to the Landlord.
- You must rent at least 4 different apartments. (Can rent more.)
- LANDLORD: the other person in the group. Stay by your advertisement and use it to try to get visitors to rent your apartment!
- You can rent the apartment as many times as you want, but to different people.
- Feel free to negotiate prices.
- RENTER: one person in the group. You are trying to rent an apartment in Beijing. Walk around the classroom and visit each of the different Landlords.
- Switch roles after 10 minutes.
- Whichever group receives the most total money wins! Prizes available!
SPECIAL PROJECT:
"BEIJING APARTMENT HUNT" WEBQUEST
Go on a "Cultural Webquest" through the Chinese internet, using real Chinese websites and online resources to hunt for, rent, and sell apartments in China. Through this webquest, you will apply your Chinese language skills in an authentic context to explore different aspects of modern Chinese living conditions, culture, and geography.
Start the Webquest here!
Start the Webquest here!
PROJECT: NATIVE CHAT
Challenge:
- Record a video with a native speaker of Chinese. In this video, please talk about apartments and housing:
- Describe the layout of your living quarters.
- Talk about the features of a residence that you like or dislike.
- Talk about how to search for a suitable apartment.
- Discuss how to negotiate apartment rent, utilities, and security deposits.
- Talk about how long you have been doing something (up to the present moment).
- Must be at least 3 minutes long.
- TARGET: see rubric for details.
PROJECT: STORYBOOK
Challenge:
- Write a creative story or dialogue about "renting an apartment." Make your story come alive with pictures.
- Use every word and structure in Level 17.
- Add pictures or photographs to every scene in the story.
- Create a physical version of your book.
- TARGET: see rubric for details.
