The third Chinese Character Recognition Competition of Phoenix City Chinese School was successfully held (picture)

The third Chinese Character Recognition Competition of Phoenix City Chinese School was successfully held (picture) Written by Chen Huiling and Qiu Liyi Phoenix Chinese School held the third Chinese character recognition competition on the afternoon of November 6th...

Written by Chen Huiling and Qiu Liyi Phoenix Chinese School held its third Chinese Character Recognition Competition on the afternoon of November 6. The purpose of the school's Chinese Character Recognition Competition was to allow every participating student to learn Chinese and work as a team through the game. Before the competition started, the host, Cheng Xiuling, the principal of Phoenix Chinese School, delivered a speech and explained the rules of the word recognition competition so that every student could fully understand the rules of the competition.

The Chinese character recognition competition has begun

This Chinese character recognition competition divides students from fifth to eleventh grade into six groups [red, yellow, blue, green, purple and white], with about 8 people in each group. The group members answer questions according to the lottery numbers; each person has at least four opportunities to answer questions. The school has also made some innovations in the way of setting questions for this year’s word recognition competition. This year, the Jeopardy game method is adopted. Students can choose questions that belong to their own grade, so they can better demonstrate their own level. In addition, computer scoring is used to save the trouble of manual calculation of scores. In terms of questions, in addition to new words and idioms, more interesting questions and answers are added. During the competition, each team member carefully selected the questions and answers. Among them, the white team and the red team were the most intense in answering idioms, and they also created many interesting sentences when using idioms to make sentences. The blue team, yellow team, green team and purple team also answered interesting questions one after another, allowing parents to see that these students not only know Chinese characters, but also understand history, folk culture, ancient poetry, and life interests, etc. Finally, the principal also asked the students to answer a special question using "Chinese to English". From the students' answers, we can see the students' ability to integrate Chinese and English and their learning achievements.

The answer was enthusiastically answered. Finally, after two hours of competition, the game was finally decided and the white team won. However, the school encourages students to participate more than ranking. In addition to each student in the white team receiving a prize and a certificate, all other participating students received a prize as an encouragement. It is hoped that through the method of word recognition competition, combined with educational entertainment, it can inspire students to learn Chinese extensively.

A group photo of the winning students

The school also expresses special thanks to the six teachers from grades 5 to 11 for using a variety of methods to help the students review Chinese characters or idioms they have learned before the competition. Especially the students in Class 5B, who grew up in non-Chinese-speaking families, may only have the opportunity to speak Chinese for two hours a week when they come to the Chinese school. However, their performance in the first competition was not inferior to the students in Class A (from Chinese-speaking families), and they won everyone's praise. The road to learning Chinese is long and arduous. I hope that with the joint efforts of classmates, teachers and the school, just like the students said when answering the idioms and sentences, "We must [keep up our efforts] to learn Chinese", let us immerse ourselves in the influence of Chinese together. If you want to know more about Phoenix Chinese School or want to join this big family, please contact the principal Cheng Xiuling (480-620-1982) or visit the school website (http://clsphoenix.org/).