Introduce Chinese to Children Teaching Fruit Words

Teaching Chinese Fruit Words with real fruits!  This is a set of high frequency words and expressions that are often used. Enjoy the video and the activity bank!  You may also enjoy Introduce Chinese to Children Through Songs.

• Level: novice

• Ages: young learners and above

• Key items: fruit words

  

Teaching Chinese fruit words is a lot of fun.  Kids always get so excited when I bring real fruits to the classroom. What a yummy fruit words show-and-tell! They smell so good and they look so delicious. You can have your own fun fruit day with your little one at home.  Time for Fruit!  Time for Fruits!  How many would you like to try?

Teach Chinese fruit words and have fun conversations about fruits through activities!

1. Go grocery shopping!

2. Picking apples.  Picking strawberries.  Picking blueberries!

3. Making a fruit salad!

4. Guess what’s in the bag! Sniff and find out.

5. Fruit detective!  What does it feel like?

6. Fruit Race!  Let’s have a fruit race.  Which one goes the fastest?

7. Making fruit stamps!

8. Making fruit kabobs!

9. Building a fruit rainbow!

10. Slicing fruits!

11. Sorting fruits with colors!

12. Counting fruits!

13. Making Frozen Fruit Bar

14. STEM: Float or Sink

15. Fruits to Art!

Enjoy all the  fruit words and have fun conversation about fruits through reading!

• My First Bilingual Book: Fruits (Chinese-English edition)

• Fruits and Vegetables a Lift the Flap book (Chinese edition)

• Food for Thought

• How Are You Peeling?

• Wordless book: Where is the Cake?

Watch the video and see if you can spot all the fruits in the supermarket or at home.  Listen to the fruit words and draw each one for game cards.  You can use these drawing to play memory game.

Ready, set, eat some fruit!