Whether you are a specialist teacher or just starting to introduce Chinese to your pupils, the tutors at Cardiff Confucius Institute have prepared a range of online resources to help you.
Cardiff Confucius Institute resources
These online activities can be undertaken in a classroom, virtual classroom, at home with family or as independent learning.
Chinese New Year
These include activities such as lantern-making and paper-cutting, learning about local customs and the Chinese zodiac, and story-telling.
Chinese New Year 2021 and 2022
Health and Wellbeing
Health and Wellbeing including eye exercises, a song and dance routine, the Yin and Yang of Chinese food and Tai Chi. These resources were initially presented at the Wales China Schools Forum in March 2021.
The Dragon Boat Festival
Find out about the origin and traditions of this festival, make your own dragon boat to race, and learn how to prepare zongzi; traditional rice dumplings.
The Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节; Zhōngqiū Jié) is a traditional event observed in East and Southeast Asia. Cardiff Confucius Institute’s tutors have prepared some online resources for teachers to use in class, or for children to enjoy at home.
Please note that many of the videos link to YouTube, so please contact us at confucius@cardiff.ac.uk if you would like them in another format.