The Chinese Language and Culture Centre (CLC) held their fall semester talent show on 12 December. Each Chinese class from the CLC provided a presentation or a short performance, with games played in between.
CLC staff, students and foreign interns
CLC Instructor Ms Michelle Wang was the MC for this event. She began the talent show by having everyone in the audience introduce themselves in Chinese.
After the introductions, the students and interns all participated in a game of charades. They took turns reading the Chinese characters and pinyin followed by demonstrating what it was for their partner to guess.
The Intermediate Chinese I class presenting about their favourite TV show in Chinese, with ELC Foreign Intern Tyler Austin going for Pokémon. After that, the Learn Chinese & Travel in China I class did a ‘three and a half’ sentences presentation, where the interns would each say a sentence in Chinese.
Tyler Austin describing Pokemon in Chinese
'Three and a half sentences': each student takes a turn to say a sentence
The Intermediate Chinese II class played their excellent music video, in which they lip synced to a popular Chinese song and used UIC’s own campus as the setting.
The Chinese Characters I class did a brief PowerPoint presentation on the different Chinese characters they learned in class. They explained the stroke order, various Chinese radicals, and different characters that have similar radicals and meanings. They even explained some Chinese legends and explained the stories to the audience.
The Chinese Character class explaining stroke order, radicals, meanings, and stories
Next, two students from each class went head to head in a competition involving balancing a ping pong ball on a paddle and racing each other to the other side of the room.
Students compete in various activities
Then the Elementary Chinese I class performed a short skit involving two foreigners arriving to China for the first time and discovering the cultural differences. This was followed by the Elementary Chinese II class re-creating the scene from the Disney movie Mulan in which Mulan meets the matchmaker.
Elementary Chinese I class with their short skit on cultural differences from America and China
Mulan meets the matchmaker scene
Christy Tran sings 'Reflection' from Mulan
The last competition required two participants from the Elementary and Intermediate level classes to match the vocabulary words with what they hear from Ms Wang.
ELC foreign interns Patricia and Nick compete
The ending performance was from the Practical Chinese class singing Jingle Bells in English, Spanish, and Chinese, before wishing the audience a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Practical Chinese class singing Jingle Bells
(From left) CLC staff: Ms Candice Cai, Dr Jenny Cui, Ms Michelle Wang, and Ms Angela Liu
Reporter: Marissa Furney
Photographer: Samuel Burgess
Editors: Samuel Burgess, Deen He, Étienne Fermie
(from MPRO)
