Year 9

These Year 9 projects start at a higher difficulty level than Year 8. For example a Year 9 project rated 1 is more difficult than a Year 8 project with a Dragon rating of 3.

Dragon Rating 1
Dragon Rating 1.5
Dragon Rating 2
Dragon Rating 2.5
Dragon Rating 3
More About Bubble Tea

This project aims to build on students’ knowledge of bubble tea, particularly what they may have covered in the Year 7 MEP Project 'The Lost Cowboy'. This Year 9 Project will take students further into the world of Asia’s favourite drink. Topics covered include the weirdest new Bubble Tea flavours, practise talking about what students think of them, how to order what they want and changing your mind. 

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Wolves

Ask anyone about animals and China and they are sure to talk about pandas and the zodiac animals. But there’s an animal that has roamed the wilder parts of China since the dawn of time and entered its language and folklore: The Wolf. In this project you’ll encounter the Chinese wolf. Don’t be afraid…..

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The Gaokao

You’ve probably heard of the Gaokao, the exam taken by millions of Chinese students to gain entrance to college. It is a bit like A Levels but much more stressful because the stakes are so high. This is the key chance for students to get into higher education and improve their life prospects. So important is the exam to students and their families that the whole of China comes to a standstill on the two or three days the exam takes place. In this project you’ll learn lots more about school life in China and how teenagers cope with the exam. Hopefully, though, you won’t have to share their stress!

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Oracle Bones

When, more than a century ago, Wang Yirong went to his local chemist shop in Beijing to get some medicine, he never imagined that the ‘dragon bones’ he was prescribed would lead him to discover the earliest known examples of Chinese writing. In this project you’ll share some of Wang’s excitement in trying to decipher the bones, you’ll step back even further into China’s past and encounter the brutal, mysterious world of China’s first dynasty, the Shang, and you’ll have some fun sketching and recreating what are now
known as ‘oracle bones’.

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The Forbidden City

Learn all about China's Forbidden City and the life of Pu Yi, The Last Emperor. You'll also recap on talking about numbers over 100, translate a scary story and learn about the Chinese emperor who spoiled his pet dogs rotten!

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Basketball

It’s estimated that 300 million people in China play basketball! In school, in the streets and in professional teams, it is probably China’s most popular sport. Millions more watch it. This project gives you an exciting insight into basketball in China, lots of useful words and expressions to help you talk about basketball and any other sport. Finally, you get a chance to try your hand at writing a sport commentary in Chinese.

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Space and Sci-Fi

Whether or not you’re a sci-fi fan, this project will take you to some very interesting places. You’ll learn about the names of the planets in Chinese, the Chinese mission to Mars and a Chinese sci-fi blockbuster. There’s an opportunity to write about the future in Chinese and to have a go at translating the titles of some sci-fi stories. Prepare to encounter Peppa Pig and Doctor Who in unusual contexts!

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Destination Paris

Of all the places in the world that Chinese tourists want to visit, Paris comes top of the list. This project will give you an insight into why Chinese people
want to go there and what they hope to see. It will give you plenty of opportunity to learn and practise key vocabulary for travel and you can even
try your hand at producing a travel vlog in Chinese! You’ll also find out more about China’s recent history by researching some famous Chinese residents
of Paris.

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Qiu Jin

In this project students will learn all about Qiu Jin, a woman born in the final years of China’s Qing dynasty. Students will research Qiu Jin's background and learn more about her life, and put their Chinese to use with a variety of tasks including describing a picture, analysing a poem and even putting themselves in the interview hot seat as Qiu Jin herself!

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 KTV

In this project students will find out lots more about KTV and karaoke in China, get to grips with some key vocab and expressions, explore some Chinese characters and even learn a popular Chinese song.

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The Environment: Individuals
Making a Difference

When people talk about environmental issues in China it’s easy to get lost in huge numbers and statistics. Yet in China as in other countries around the world, individuals and communities are making a difference in the push to make our world cleaner and greener. In this project you’ll focus on these. You’ll learn some useful language to do with the environment, encounter individuals in China and around the world who are making a difference, and even dip into a bit of Classical Chinese!

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Create Your Own Project!

By now you will have done lots of MEP projects. Now it’s your turn to create one yourself. This is a great opportunity to explore a favourite topic of your
own and to create a project to challenge your classmates. Once you’ve finished creating your project, you can ask your teacher to submit it to the
MEP. Yours may be one of the projects selected for general distribution and then you’d be challenging hundreds of other MEP students around the
country.

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