Lesson example: Semi-structured lessons for beginners Conversation/Text 你好! 我叫…，三十五岁。我是英国人，住在 … 我说英语和法语，我在学中文/汉语。 (Hello! My name is ..., I'm 35. I'm British, I live in ... I speak English and French, I'm studying Chinese.) 1. Pronunciation and tones 1.1 Tutor uses text with Pinyin to explain pronunciation and the 5 tones, student practice single character with tones. 1.3 Student to read the text, tutor makes sure the pronunciation and tones are correct. 1.4 Extra vocabulary for the text. e.g. 英国人(+中国人，法国人, …), 英语 (+德语, 法语, …) 2. Characters & words 2.1 Strokes: Tutor gives short introduction, provides links to stroke list and animation for self-reading and self-practice. 2.2 Character structure: Tutor gives short introduction to character types, provides link to Chinese character classification for self-reading. 2.3 Tutor explains 2 of the 6 character types: Pictograph and phono-semantic with examples. 2.3.1 Pictograph examples: 日，月，山，雨，火，… （with link to images) 2.3.2 Phono-semantic examples: 妈, 吗，码，蚂，… 3. Introduce radicals 1) radical 人 : 你，他，住，们，… 2) radical 女 : 妈，她, … 3) radical 言: 说，语 … 4. Pronouns: 你, 您，我, 他，她，它，我们，你们，他们，她们，它们 Student applies the pronouns to the text.