2016年10月28日星期五

Review Sheet for Monday's Test

Vocab:
-Any vocabulary from lesson 《大减价的时候商店里很热闹》《我家附近新开了一家便利店》《给妈妈买条真丝围巾吧》you should know well(This does not include the furniture lesson we did on Friday),  including character, Pinyin and meaning. Make sure that you can make sentence out of them. If you are having problem, refer back to the text as reference.
- 关系:夫妻, 父子, 父女, 母子, 母女, 兄弟, 兄妹, 姐弟, 姐妹

Sentences: Any sentence in those lesson is fair game for translation questions.

Grammar: -You must know rules of using 把,
                  -Rule of using  地  and 的,especially after repeated adjectives. EX. 胖胖的, 慢慢地跑.
                 -And to put ...时 in front of 你要用/需要.
                 -Using 俩 and 仨
                 - Rules of saying fraction, decimal and percentage
Concept:You must understand how Chinese discount system work. Ex.打八折, 也就是说 A.打折后的价格比原价便宜百分之二十。Or  B. 现价是原价的80% (Current price is original price’s 80%)
               
Measure words to know: 份, 把 , 张, 条, 瓶,本 ,部, 块, 节, 包, 支

Possible Essay questions:1.Pros and Cons of shopping at big mall and small shop
                                           2. One of your shopping experience.

2016年10月26日星期三

HW 10/26

Make sentences for (copy 3 times of character and Pinyin)
1. 送
2. 份
3. 俩
4. 旧
5. 专卖店
6. 名牌
7. 不行
8. 够
9. 认为
10. 特别
11. 出产
12. 适合
13. 年龄
14. 同意
15. 地 (de)
16. 快乐

2016年10月25日星期二

HW and Quiz Tomorrow

HW: Write one sentence each for when do you use them (You can just write sentence only. Make sure you use measure words).
Use  "...  时, 你需要  / 要用... " form.   or  "...的时候, 你你需要  / 要用...
1. 练习本
2. 牙刷
3. 尺子
4. 杂志
5.橡皮
6. 相册
7. 报纸
8. 牙膏
9. 相册
10. 相机
11. 铅笔盒
12. 卷笔刀
13. 字典
14. 笔记本
15. 钢笔
16. 电池
17. 剪刀
18. 饼干
19. 铅笔

For quiz,please study vocabulary in the previous vocab box and HERE.


2016年10月24日星期一

10/24 HW

Make sentences for the following words (always copy 3 times the Pinyin and character):
1. 便利店
2. 日用品
3. 那里(儿)
4. 文具
5. 玩具
6. 当天
7. 报纸
8. 杂志
9. 居民
10. 方便

2016年10月19日星期三

10/19 HW

Make sentences for these words (don't forget to copy 3 times of character and Pinyin):
1. 减价
2.各种各样
3. 商品
4. 比较
5. 质量
6. 大都
7. 退换
8. 出售
9. 顾客
10. 打折
11. 就是说
12.原价
13. 如今
14. 付
15. 现金
16. 支票
17. 信用卡

2016年10月18日星期二

去大商场买东西 还是 去小商店买东西?

Use your graphic organizer, list pros and cons of shopping at big malls and at small shops.

You should have 3 reasons for each. 12 sentences altogether.

Make sure to use complete sentences. For example 好处是质量好 does not give me enough  information on what you are referring to.

EACH sentence needs to start with
    去大商场买东西的好( 坏)处是。。。

Or 去小商店买东西的好(坏)处是。。。

2016年10月14日星期五

Test 2 Review Sheet (Monday, 10/17)

A. Vocab:All words in the vocabulary tables in the handout. Those are from lesson on "Fruits and Vegetables", "Snacks" and "Food Pyramid"
B. Measure words: 罐,盘, 碗, 杯, 包, 盒, 个, 块, 家, 斤, 条, 只.
C. Make sure you can answer these questions:
1. 你唱吃什么水果?
2. 你喜欢吃什么蔬菜?
3. 你家附近有菜市场吗?
4. 你通常去哪儿买蔬菜和水果?
5. 在学校, 你午饭吃什么?
6. 你喜欢吃零食吗?
7. 你帮妈妈做饭吗?

2016年10月13日星期四

10/13 HW and Quiz

HW: Make sentences for

1. 需要
2. 营养
3. 得到
4. 食物 (or 食品)
5. 主食
6. 含有
7. 大量
8. 健康

Quiz on last vocab table (零食, snacks)

2016年10月11日星期二

10/11 HW

HW: Make TWO phrases using each of these shopping places: , 书店, 粥面店, 服装店,糕饼店, 糖果店, 药房, 水果店

(copy words and Pinyin 3 times)
Ex:  去市场买土豆;去市场买猪肉;

Then, make 2 sentences for each of following(please see handout for definition):
1一天到晚 
2. …极了
3.越来越… 
4.越
5. 差 

Friday quiz will be words from the vocab table and those 8 vocabulary for places of shopping.

2016年10月8日星期六

Bilingual Menu Project (Due 10/24)

Imagine that you are opening a restaurant in China that is open to domestic AND international patrons. It could be a Chinese restaurant (you could focus on a specific variety. e.g. Hunan, Cantonese, Sichuan, etc), American restaurant or others serving various cuisines from the world.

You need to create a bilingual menu with Chinese and English. All Chinese characters need to be handwritten. Requirements for this project include:
1. A cover page featuring your restaurant's name, phone number, address (website or social media pages is a plus) and an image (you could draw or print out one and glue to the page
2. A page containing bilingual introduction to your restaurant. The Chinese intro needs to be more than 100 characters. The English translation must correspond to Chinese
3. FIVE pages with 5 categories of things you have in your restaurant, those categories could be 冷盘(cold dish), 热炒(stir-fried), 小吃(snack), 糕点(sweet pastry),冰品(cold desert), 甜品(dessert), 汤(soup), 面食(noodle), 面类(noodles), 米饭类(Rice), 炸类(Fried food)烧烤(BBQ) etc.
4. Each food page needs to have category name as heading. Each page needs to have 5 items with a picture (could be hand-drawn or printed out and glued to it), bilingual name of the food and ingredients (list at least 3) AND price in local currency Renminbi (please do research to set reasonable price).
5. A back cover page and some sort of binding that puts pages together (you could do spiral, strings, or just staple)

Please keep in mind that you are to attract customers by design of your food combination and pricing.
The following is a example of a multilingual menu:

Please click here for more examples.
Grading Rubric (project is worth 100 points)

Poor
Fair
Good
Excellent
Content
Missing parts, below 25 pages, minimal information presented, no hand-written characters
Missing part, inadequate information, character writing is barely recognizable
Missing some parts, characters writing is neat, information educational
Have all parts, character writing is excellent, information isinteresting and educational
Accuracy of information
Generally not accurate, errors consistent throughout the book
Generally accurate, shows large amount of error
Generally accurate, shows occasional errors
Very accurate information with no errors
Creativity/
Appeal to readers
N/A
Shows some creativity, ways of presenting not appealing to readers
Shows good creativity, ways of presenting catches readers attention
Shows great creativity, ways of presenting very appealing to readers
Appearance
No bounding, messy, the product doesn’t resemble the format of a book
The product minimally resembles the format of a book
Clean, the product resembles the format of a book
Appealing aesthetically, ready-to-publish-format book

2016年10月7日星期五

周末功课

If you still have not recorded the text in the Audio Dropbox, please do so ASAP.

HW1: finish worksheet given to you in class. For 9, Describing one of your friends, write on the back.

HW2:  Pick THREE groups to to present the unit price of fruits and vegetables of their vendor or store. First say the store or vendor's name. Then list unit price of each of the 10 items in that store.

EX. 在四季蔬菜水果摊(tān, vendor), 一斤苹果两块钱。 五个桔子三块五毛钱。一斤菜花一块七毛五。。。(list 10 items for each, you don't have to specify if it is fruit or vegetable)

HW3: Optional. As mentioned in class, you can cover  (points you lost )% x point you lost, if you choose to do the test correction. For example, if you have 70, you can recover 30% of 30 points which is 9. You final score would be 79.

Instruction for test correction:
-Copy those questions you did wrong 5 times. (including the questions)
-For Part 3, if you put a word in the wrong category, copy the category and list the item and copy 5 times. For example : 中式早餐: 包子 (copy 5 times)
-For essay, you only need to write once.

2016年10月6日星期四

10/06 HW

HW1 : Make 2 sentences for the following words(As always, you copy 3 times of characters and Pinyin, I wouldn't repeat this for next sentence making assignment):
1. 市场    2. 蔬菜   3. 水果   4. 新鲜     5. 常见     6. 热闹

HW2: Record the text in the Audio DropBox on the left (please practice before you record, you will be graded on the accuracy of pronunciation. 

For quiz tomorrow, please study the character, Pinyin and English Meaning of following words. Once again: 四季豆(sì jì dòu) is string bean, not kidney bean.

2016年10月1日星期六

Test Review Sheet

Review sheet for test on Wednesday,October 4th,2016.
The test will consist of listening, reading and writing. Types of questions: fill-in-blank, translation, multiple-choice, short answer, essay, etc.

To do the listening practice, please click here to hear and then finish the exercise.

A.Vocabulary ( As in Quiz, you should be able to write characters, know the Pinyin and meaning of these words)

Lesson: 中式早餐包括粥, 包子
中式, 早餐=早饭, 包括, 粥, 包子, 面条, 鸡蛋, 豆浆, 点心, 城市, 西式, 面包, 酸奶, 牛奶, 桔, 桔子汁, 咖啡, 抹, 黄油, 或, 果酱, 糖, 可乐, 茶

Lesson:爸爸点了很多菜
碗, 鸡汤, 当时, 大约, 渴, 饿, 杯, 冷饮, 叫菜=点菜, 冷盘, 皮蛋, 肉片, 五香牛肉, 花生米, 海带丝, 烤鸭, 炒面, 家常, 豆腐, 水果盘, 饱

Lesson:自助餐的菜式很多
自助餐, 羊肉, 变化, 饮食业, 各个, 意大利, 东南亚, 快餐, 餐厅, 菜单, 猪排, 三文鱼, 寿司, 龙虾,生菜, 沙拉, 三明治, 甜食(品), 糕点, 青年人, 吃素, 海鲜, 对。。。过敏.

You must be able to recognize these characters:
2. Please know how to write those measure words, its Pinyin and how to use them for right things.
张 zhāng: MW (measure word) for things with flat surface.
把 bǎ:MW for things that can be held in one's hand.
本 běn: MW for books, periodicals, etc
个 gè:MW for those does not have a specific MW
件 jiàn: MW for events and clothes (top ware)
包 bāo:MW for packs or bags.
套 tào: MW for set.
块kuài:piece of something (food, cloth, stone, chunk)
条tiáo: long and thin objects, it could be used on dogs and livestocks as well. 
部 bù : MW for works of literature, films, machines (cars, telephone)
只zhī: MW for animals; one of a pair
双shuāng: pair

B. Grammar:
1. 多少钱:一张电影票多少钱? 一张电影票九块八毛五分钱。
2. 花: 她每天花很多时间打电话。
             昨天我花了400块钱买了一件毛衣。
3. 还是/或: 你想吃自助餐还是点菜?
                      你今天或明天来都可以。
4. 各: 各位家长, 你们好!
            这家店卖各种各样的手表。
5. 如果...就...:如果明天下雨, 我们就不去踢足球了。
6. 对。。。过敏: 他不能吃虾, 因为他对海鲜过敏。
7. Question words used as indefinites:
我谁也不想见.  I don't want to see anybody.
吃什么都可以. I can eat anything.
我哪儿都不想去. I don't want to go anywhere.
你吃多少都可以. Eat as much as you can.
哪个电影我都想看. I want to see any movie.

C. Short answer: 
Make sure you can answer these questions (always answer in complete sentences):
1. 你今天吃早饭了吗?
2. 你早饭一般吃什么?
3. 你午饭通常吃什么?
4. 你晚饭吃中餐还是西餐?
5. 你喜欢喝什么?
6. 你吃过自助餐?
7. 你和家人常去饭馆吃饭吗?
8. 你每天花多长时间做功课?