Conversation Class Lesson Summary

Language Resident Name:

Ting Cao

Day and Date:


Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class):

Chinese, Advanced  

Class theme/topics discussed:

Time Travel 

Goal of the class:

By the end of this class, students will be able to talk about where they want to go and what they want to do, if they have a power to time travel.   

How did you structure the class?

  1. Group discussion: Discuss the following questions in groups:

              Is there any thing that you really regret?

              If you could go back to the time before the thing happened, would you change it?

              If you could travel to the future, what would you do?

      2. Time travel movies and TV drama

           a. Ask students to introduce some American movies and dramas about time travel.

          b. Introduce some Chinese movies and dramas to students, and watch some clips.

      3. Discussion: If you got a chance to time travel, where and when would you go?                                                               


PowerPoint, and Chinese TV drama:

What worked well in this class? What did not work?

Class worked very well. Students were interested in this topic, and had so much fun with imagining about having the super power.

How could this class be improved/ modified?

