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Teaching core values helps kids Michaelm

Recently, President Xi Jinping talked about the 12 core socialist values. "These core values," he stated, "are essential to the future success of China."'

He encouraged others to promote these values in every aspect of life and suggested that they should be taught in the classroom. When I read this, I thought to myself, "That's me. I'm a teacher. He is telling me to teach these in the classroom." So, since I live and teach in China and I am here to help by teaching, I made his speech part of my lessons. I underlined key English words that I wanted my students to learn, wrote ten questions for them to answer about the speech, made copies of it and gave it to my students. They work in groups and have spent the last three class periods working on this assignment.