Topic: Clothing
Mode: Interpretive
Level: Novice
Students will listen to a short conversation involving clothes and respond to the True/False statement.
Components of the activity: Script, worksheet
Instructions to the teacher
Using scripts below, find two people to audio-record the dialogue. Play the audio about Jenny’s Trip to China and finish the worksheet below. If you think the statement is true, write T in the right column; otherwise, write F (False).
Script
Interviewer: I heard you traveled to Beijing this winter. Can you tell us a little bit about how people celebrate the Chinese New Year? What did you wear?
Jenny: Sure. It was pretty fun. People like to wear clothes in red during the Chinese New Year. We also wore red clothes. I wore a black coat and a red scarf. My mom wore a red coat, and my dad wore a red tie. We also got red envelopes from our Chinese friends.
Instructions to students
Listen to what Jenny says about what she and her family wore during a trip to China and mark each statement True or False.
| Statement | True (T) or False (F) |
| Jenny traveled to China this winter. | |
| Jenny wore a yellow scarf. | |
| People like to wear clothes in red during the Chinese New Year. | |
| Jenny’s mom wore red pants. | |
| Jenny’s dad wore a red tie. | |
| Jenny and her family members did not get red envelopes from their Chinese friends. |