Empathetic song increases Total Comprehensible Input (CI) (TCI) a la TPRS® and help Mandarin 1 Class stay in the target language, and reach your 90% TL goal every day even when checking homework. Soon your students will be telling you in Mandarin that they have it or don't have it.
This 25 second video is powerful – soon they can't help singing along to it!
I tend to play it twice for the full minute that it takes for the students to grab their pencils and homework.
Seriously, every day I