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1.Have students get to know some basic knowledge about Chinese New Year Celebration traditions. 2.Have students learn the basic words of Chinese food. 3.Have students obtain the personal experience to have Chinese food and watch the once-a-year parade at Chinatown.

1. Participants will be able to know the origin of the Chinese New Year, or the legend of the monster 年 . 2. Participants will be able to know it is Year of the Pig this year and the Chinese Zodiac. 3. Participants will be able to use chopsticks and understand why we have dumplings on this occasion. 4. Participants will be able to know some traditions of the Chinese New Year: paper cutting, lanterns, red envelopes, etc. 5. Participants will know what calligraphy is and how to write using a calligraphy brush and ink. 6. Participants will know how to play ping pong.

By the end of the lesson students will be able to: Use the Arabic words to name animals Identify some Arabic animals names. Make simple sentences have the animals words. Use the adjectives to describe animals.