Please try to download the Audio Files (textbook contents) from the Mandarin
2G folder in First Class (under my name), and listen to it at home!
May 24, 2012
If you did not have time to finish the Translation on the Lesson 6 Unit Test
today, please do it at home:
I am a 10th grader at LHS. Usually I have 5 class periods everyday. Ms. Yao is
my Chinese teacher. I have Chinese class on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Friday. If I don't know how to do my Chinese homework, I can ask my Chinese
friend. His name is Wang, Peng. He often helps me prepare for my Chinese
tests. I would take him out for tea to thank for his help!
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这个星期五月七日
星期一 Lesson 6，约时间 给。。。打电话，给。。。介绍一下
Homework: Quiz 1 Review and correction
星期二 Lesson 6, Dialog 2 How to ask for help and how to return the favor?
Homework: Vocabulary workbook
星期四: Lesson 6, Dialog 2 Time Expressions 上个月，下个星期。。。
Homework: Workbook Reading Comprehension
星期五: Lesson 6, Dialog 2, Model Verb 得
China Trip Report
Homework: Workbook Writing
下个星期五月十四日 AP Test Week, Wish All the Best!
星期一 Lesson 6, Dialog 2, Quiz 2
Culture Highlights
星期二 Lesson 6, Dialog 2, Learn the rhyme about the time expressions
星期四: Lesson 6，Directional complements
Homework: Workbook
星期五: Lesson 6， Work on the skit, need to record it as oral test scores
Homework: workbook
May 17, Thursday evening Language Night at LHS
Those who won in the Mandarin Speech Contest are welcome to attend!
Bring your parents along and camera! Congratulations!
May 23, Wed. 2:35 to 4:05pm at Classroom 510
Placement Test for those who plan to skip Mandarin II and place on Mandarin
III
May 24 or May 25, Seniors Final Exam at Language lab 614
这个星期四月二日
星期一 Lesson 5 看朋友 Narrative, particle 了
Homework: Reading Comprehension B, C, Writing A
星期二 Lesson 5 看朋友 喝水了 vs. 喝了两杯水； adverbial 才
Homework: Writing B,C,D
Prepare Lesson 5 Quiz 2 (Score will be recorded for Quarter 4)
Including the Oral Test (memorize and recite the drink rhyme and read
the Narrative)
星期四: Lesson 5 看朋友 Lesson 5 Quiz 2 & Oral Test
Homework: Complete the workbook
星期五: Good Friday, NO School
下个星期四月九日(代课老师， sub teacher)
星期一 Lesson 5 看朋友 Teach Culture Highlights
Review Lesson 5, Tomorrow Unit Test Lesson 5
星期二 Lesson 5，Unit Test
星期四: Lesson 6，约时间 给。。。打电话，给。。。介绍一下
Homework: Vocabulary Book
星期五: Lesson 6， 约时间 How to set up time to meet
Homework: Vocabulary Book, vocab build and expansion, Read Dialog
四月十六日到四月二十日 学校春假 Spring Vacation Break
三月十九号
星期一：第五课： 看朋友
作业： Study the 6 popular beverages name, also come up 6 different
ones that you like, Chinese, English and pinyin，
可以查看：http://www.nciku.com/
星期二：
星期四：
星期五：小考 －－－
下个星期 The Next Week (三月五日)
星期一 Lesson 4 爱好 How to ask friends out to do something you both like?
Homework: Project on describing your hobby or weekend plan
星期二 Lesson 4爱好, How to set up plans for the weekend?
Homework: Project on describing your hobby or weekend plan
星期四: Lesson 4, 爱好，Listening Comprehension Language Lab/Presentation
Homework: Vocabulary Expansion
星期五: Lesson 4, 爱好Presentation
Homework: Vocabulary Expansion, Prepare for the Unit Test
再下个星期 The Next Week (三月十二日)
星期一 Lesson 4 爱好 Presentation and Review
星期二 Lesson 5， 大考 Unit Test
星期四: Lesson 5， 看朋友， How to welcome a visitor
Homework: Vocab workbook
星期五: Lesson 5， 看朋友How to ask for beverages as a guest at someone
else’s place
Homework: Workbook Reading ABC
Speech Contest! Good Luck everybody!!!
祝大家寒假快乐！！！Happy Winter Break!
再下个星期 The Next Week (二月二十七日)
星期一 Lesson 4 爱好word order in Chinese review and practice, Part 2
Homework: Vocabulary book
星期二 Lesson 4爱好, Part 2 Review Affirmative + Negative Questions
Conjunction 那(么)， then, in that case
Homework: Part 2 Workbook Reading A B C
星期四: Lesson 4, 爱好， part 2
Homework: Worksheet
星期五: Lesson 4, practice conjunction sentences
Homework: Workbook Writing exercise C D
这个星期 Next Week (二月十三日)
星期一 Lesson 4 爱好How to say these hobbies in Chinese
Homework: workbook Reading comprehension A, B, C
星期二 Lesson 4爱好, Review Affirmative + Negative Questions
Conjunction 那(么)， then, in that case
Homework: workbook writing A B C D
星期四: Lesson 4, 爱好， 小考 part 1
Homework: Worksheet
星期五: Lesson 4, practice Chinese sentence word order
祝大家寒假快乐！！！
这个星期 Next Week (二月六日)
星期一 Lesson 3 时间Test Correction and pop up quiz
星期二 Introducing Lesson 4, 爱好
Homework: start learning the common hobbies Chinese terms, word book
星期四: Lesson 4, 爱好， 球
Homework: Worksheet
星期五: Lesson 4, how to express your hobby, computer lab
Homework: Vocabulary book
这个星期 Next Week (一月三十日)
星期一 Review Lesson 3, 时间Check homework, correction
星期二 Unit Test on Lesson 123
星期四: Lesson 3 时间 Oral test (memorize the time expression rhyme) and
Listening Comprehension
Culture Highlights
星期五: Field Trip: Lexington Art Society, Dragon Art Show
祝大家 春节快乐！ 龙年大吉！ 心想事成，万事如意！！！
一月二十三日
星期二 第三课 时间
作业： Workbook Reading comprehension A B C D
星期四 作业： Workbook Writing A B C D
星期五 中国城
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下个星期 Next Week (一月十七日)
星期一 No School
星期二 第三课 Basic Sentence Structures in Chinese, how to put sentence
together
Return Homework packet; Correct workbook Writing page
Show your homework on Copying Lesson 3, Part 1 Dialog 1
Prepare for Lesson 3 Listening Comprehension Test tomorrow (some
writing too)
星期四: Lesson 3 Part 1 Quiz 2, Listening Comprehension and vocab
Learning the time expression rhyme and practice
星期五: 第三课 Part 2
Homework: Vocabulary workbook
Jan. 23, Chinese New Year, in-class Culture Celebration/Sharing party
Jan. 27 Field Trip to Chinatown, Boston
Feb. 3, Field Trip to Lexington Arts and Crafts Society Chinese Dragon
Painting Show
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这个星期 Next Week (一月十日）：
星期一：第三课 喜欢。。。不喜欢。。。
Homework: Vocabulary workbook page 39-43 finish the character writing
for Part one;
星期二：第三课 是。。。还是。。。
Homework: workbook Writing page 48-49 D E
Vocab quiz
星期四: 第三课 怎么样
Learning the time expression rhyme and practice
星期五: 第三课 Review
Homework: workbook page 50, Writing F
这个星期 (一月四日）：
Happy Holiday and Happy New Year to everybody!
祝大家节日快乐！新年好！！！
星期四: Lesson 3 How to describe time in Chinese： 年，月，号，天，日，星期
Homework: Workbook page 44-45, Reading Comprehension A B C
星期五: 第三课 生日，岁，多大，多少，几， 几岁
Workbook: Reading Comprehension D E, Writing Vocab
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这个星期 This Week (十二月十九日）：
Monday: Learning and sharing about holiday season in China
Tuesday: Test correction and more about Lesson 2, moving on to Lesson 3
Thursday: Lesson 3 How to describe time in Chinese
Friday: in-class activity on time expression
Happy Holiday and Happy New Year to everybody!
这个星期This Week (十二月十二日）：
Monday: Review Lesson 2 My Family Vocab, turn in Workbook
Tuesday: Review Lesson 2 My Family Sentence pattern
Homework: worksheet and rhyme about using 几， 多少，谁
Thursday: Unit Test on Lesson 2
Friday: in-class presentation, with your family photo, introduce your family
members in more details, name, profession, etc. 20 sentences
This Week (十二月四日）：
Monday: Chinese Exchange Students come to class to do presentation
Q & A with them;
Homework: Workbook page 39, Writing and Grammar A, B, C
Tuesday: Worksheet to be more familiar to the names of the common professions
Homework: Workbook page 40, D
Thursday: Review Part 2 Sentence structures
Homework: Workbook E, prepare for the in-class Presentation tomorrow
Friday: in-class presentation, with your family photo, introduce your family
members in more details, 20 sentences
Review on Lesson 2, get ready for Unit Test next Monday, 12/5/11
This Week Homework (十一月二十八日）:
Monday: Review Family Member's names in Chinese, Chinese he/she/it
Vocab Drill and phrases
Tues. Quiz on Lesson 2, D1 again
Thurs. Review Quiz and worksheet
Continue with Lesson 2, Part 2, learn how to say people's profession
Homework: Vocabulary book, page 33 to 36, practice each character with
correct stroke order and write 6 times
Friday: Worksheet to practice on Part 2 vocabulary
Homework: Workbook Page 37-38 Reading Comprehension, A, B, C
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This Week Homework 十一月七日:
Monday: Last Review on Lesson 1, students able to use in real life greeting,
ask simple questions to each other; prepare for tomorrow Unit Test
Tues. 第一课 大考
Thurs. 第二课 家庭， 介绍家人，学会家人的名称， 韵语练习，认读，写，会背
Read the rhyme of My Family and try to memorize it;
Write the first 10 characters/phrases on the grid paper, fill the line
for each character.
Friday: Veteran's Day, NO School
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Week of Oct. 25, 2011
Monday: in-class "interview", ask about each other's nationality
Homework: fix the errors you made in quiz and update and add more up
the presentation you gave today, if you may. Great job, everybody! I am
impressed by everybody's hard work and capability of forming such a clear and
detailed introduction paragraph, average 12 sentences, all in 中文！！！
Tues. Homework: workbook page 22, 23 D, and design your own business card
Workbook page 23 A &B.
Thurs. Workbook page 24, 25, C D E
Friday: Computer lab, on-line quiz on Lesson 1
workbook page 25, 26, F G H, hooray, complete the whole package now!!
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This Week Homework:
Week of Oct. 18, 2011
Monday: Lesson 1 D2 Dialog two, HW: understand the characters and put up phrases
Tues. Lesson 1 D2, in class, we shared a lot of different countries related to
us (for example, where your parents, or grandparents coming from), how to
tell/guess from their Chinese names, etc.
Homework: workbook Reading Comprehension page 20, A, B, C
Thurs. Language lab, listening comprehension and speaking the dialog
Friday: quiz on Lesson 1, D1 & D2 Vocab and basic sentences
Homework: try to find the countries related to you, their national
flag (if possible, what those symbols mean), or their famous landmarks, and
write simple sentence about that, for example: 我爸爸是法国人， 我妈妈是韩国人，
Grandma and Grandpa in Chinese are: yeye, nainai (if from father side),
waigong, waipo (from mother side). 10 sentences each student
Monday, we will do in-class "interviews" about each other
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Oct. 12 Week
Tues. Continue on Lesson 1 Dialog one, HW: Workbook page 2 & 3 correction and
practice on basic vocab
Thurs. HW: workbook page 3 , listen to CD and practice pronunciation
Greeting in Chinese way: Last Name/Family Name; First Name/Given Name
Friday. Learned three important words: 是， 不， 也 and the basic Chinese
sentence struture
HW: character sheet, 9 characters, starting from correct order and 4
for each
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Week of Oct. 3, 2011 (十月三日）
Quiz on Introduction went very well!!! You have certainly mastered the pinyin
rules, stroke order, most common radicals very well!!!
By now, everybody knows how to say their Chinese names with correct tone! Hooray!
We started Lesson 1, Greetings 第一课，问好
Homework Oct. 4,
-practice on vocab writing, start from correct stroke, one stroke at a
time/box till complete one character, then only need to write 4 times
(complete ones); keep the packet in a good place, we will come back.
-listen to the CD and get familiar to the dialog
Thurs. Oct. 6, we will have half hour language lab time and practice more on
listening comprehension and pronunciation
Homework: Workbook page 2(bottom) & 3
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Week of Sept. 26, 2011 （九月二十六日）
Congratulations all!!! By now, we have completed the very important first step
in learning Chinese!!!
During the past 4 （四个）weeks, we have learned:
Brief general information about China:map, language, populations, history
Pinyin system for Chinese pronunciation - 6 （六个）simple finals
- 5 （五个）tone marks (where to put)
- 23 (二十三个）initials
- compound finals (especially i and u in between)
If you remember how to sing the Pinyin song, you will remember these all!
The Chinese Writing System
6 Formations of Chinese characters: pictographs： 人，山， 日，月
self-explanatory ： 上， 下
associative compounds： 明，休
pictophonetic (has sound clue)：河，饭
mutually explanatory： 老，考
phonetic loan (stolen from others)：来，我
Chinese Numbers: 一，二， 三， 四， 五， 六，七， 八， 九， 十
Basic Chinese Radicals:
Although there are more than 40,000 Chinese characters in existence, but,
basically, they are all grouped together according to their common components
known as "radicals". Our book will introduce 40 of them and we have already
learned almost half of them!
Basic Strokes:
Writing Chinese characters is not as hard as you thought! There are only 8
basic strokes (well, some variations):
dot, horizontal, vertical, downward left, downward right,upward
hook (vertical hook, horizontal hook, slanted hook, sleeping hook)
bend (vertical bend, horizontal bend, slanted bend)
Stroke Order:
The strokes in any given characters are always written in the same order!
The stroke order will help you in two ways: first, it is fast and accurate
second, the character look better
(eventually, will help you find the character in a radical-based dictionary)
1. From left to right (downward left before downward right): 人，川
2. From top to bottom: 三
3. Horizontal before vertical: 十
4. From outside to inside: 月
5. Middle before two sides: 小
6. Outside before inside before closing: 日， 国
Today's homework: use the 田字格 the "field" lined paper to write those common
Chinese characters in CORRECT order, fill out the whole page!