Practise the thinking. Keep the judgement.
Teaching Chinese through examples and questions
Original Chinese study material with English explanations. Simplified Chinese with pinyin; beginner, intermediate and advanced are editorial difficulty labels.
Choose one contrast, show two examples and ask the learner to explain a new case. For reading, ask a literal question first, then ask which words support the answer. Give a reason for a correction and return to a different example later. 教 means teach; 学 means learn.
老师教中文，学生学中文。
Lǎoshī jiāo Zhōngwén, xuésheng xué Zhōngwén.
The teacher teaches Chinese; the students learn Chinese.
你从哪句话看出来的？
Nǐ cóng nǎ jù huà kàn chūlái de?
Which sentence helped you work that out?
A correct multiple-choice answer alone does not show speaking, listening or writing proficiency. Ask for an explanation or an original sentence when that is the skill you want to examine.
Try it
Which follow-up checks evidence for a reading answer?
- Which sentence supports your answer?
- How fast did you click?
- How many colours are on the page?
Answer and explanation
Which sentence supports your answer?. Pointing to a sentence lets you examine the learner’s interpretation against the passage.