Teacher can write a “口” down on the blackboard and tell students of the Mandarin learning courses: how many characters will be to add two strokes on the character “口”? The students should write the new characters down on their exercise books or papers. They will be given ten minutes to write. When the time is up, students should stop and report the number of the characters he had written. Teacher can ask the top three students to write down the characters they have written on the blackboard. If every character a student has written is right, he will be the winner. And the teacher should award him as encouragement.
Here are some prompts of characters provided by the teacher from the school in Kunming to study Chinese:目、田、由、甲、申、电、旦、旧、叶、右、叮、可、号、占、叭、史、句、兄、只、叹、司、加、古、叫、叨、叩、召……
The professors who teach Mandarin language suggest that the length of time could be decided by the teacher himself according to the proficiency of students on Chinese characters, which can be either 5 minutes or 8 minutes. In order to save class time, teacher can also ask two students to write on the blackboard. When the time is up, teacher can make comments and judge the scores. The one who has written the most characters will be the winner. Other students can complement characters, as well.
There are much more Chinese characters can be formed by adding two strokes on the character “口”. In order to let students who learn Chinese in China grasp more Chinese characters, teachers can also choose other characters as the basic characters for students to exercise. For example, to add two strokes on the character “工”, (正、主、玉、左、巧、功……)
Through teaching practices of some teachers in Mandarin language courses in China, it has been proved that this game can improve the memory capacity, recognizing capacity of students, enhance the recognition of students on the theory that Chinese characters consist of strokes, as well as speed up their Chinese character writing.
Based on this game, teachers of intensive Mandarin course in China also designed another game to help her Chinese classroom teaching.
The teacher prompted several strokes on the blackboard, such as 丶，一，丨，丿，口，乙. She asked students who learn Chinese in Yunnan to use three strokes to organize characters. The one who can organize the most characters will be the winner. They were asked to write down on their exercise books within ten minutes.
During the ten minutes, the teacher walked around the classroom to see whether the order of writing strokes wrote by students was right or wrong.
When time was up, everyone stopped and reported the number of characters he had written on his exercise book. And three students who study Chinese wrote down the most characters compared with other students and they were asked to write down the characters they organized on the blackboard.
The teacher also led students to make judgment on the characters on blackboard. One of the three students wrote the most characters and the more important thing was that most of the characters he organized were right; therefore students who study in China all agreed that he was the winner of the game. The teacher gave him a small gift as reward at last
After this class, the teacher made a conclusion that the time of the competition can be either long or short according to the proficiency of the students on Chinese characters and the level of students who learn Mandarin. In fact, teacher can also ask two students to write on blackboards directly and other students write on their exercise books or papers.
This game can help students enhance their capacity of using strokes to make Chinese characters and strengthen their proficiency of recognizing Chinese character strokes.