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Mandarin I | Instructional Packet

DAY 1

Topic: Review and Self-Testing, Unit 7 Part 4 EQ: How to present your knowledge regarding cities in Chinese? Aim: Memorize, reinforce the vocabulary and sentences.

1. 吗 ma : ________________

2. not/no/never : ______________

3. How about you? : _______________

4. don’t like : ___________________

5. don’t eat : _______________

6. Do you live in San Francisco? : ____________________________________

7. 我不喜欢苹果。 wǒ bù xǐ huān píng guǒ 。: __________________________

8. also : ________

9. Radical for mouth: _______ (symbol) ______( pinyin)

10. don’t live in : ______________

11. I don’t eat green bananas. How about her? : _________________________________________

12. She also doesn’t eat breakfast.

13. Write at least two characters which include the radical for mouth: _______ & _______

14. Where : _______

15. Where do you live in? : ____________

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16. What is the radical for the following characters? : ___________ What do these characters mean? : ______________

17. What is the radical for the following characters? : ___________ What do these characters mean respectively? : _________ & ___________

18. What is the radical for the following character? : ___________ What does this character mean? : _________

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19. What does this character mean? : _________

20. What is the radical of the following character? : ___________ What does this character mean? : _________

DAY 2

Topic: Role Play, Unit 7 Part 4 EQ: How to present your knowledge regarding cities in Chinese? Aim: Complete the conversation below. Role Play Conversation S=School administrator, N=New student

• S: Good morning! My name is _____. What is your name?

• N: Good morning! My name is ______.

• S: How old are you?

• N: I am ____ years old.

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• S: Where do you live?

• N: I live in _____. How about you?

• S: I live in ____, too. (I also live in _____.) How about your family?

• N: My family lives in ____. Does the school have lunch?

• S: Yes, we do. Do you eat green apples?

• N: No, I don’t.

Please write your script HERE in Pinyin or characters:

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DAY 3

Topic: Chinese Cities EQ: How to identify famous cities in China? Aim: Identify and talk about 5 Chinese cities.

*Task #1: Read aloud the vocabulary:

1. 北京 běi jīng (Beijing)

2. 上海 shàng hǎi (Shanghai)

3. 广州 guǎng zhōu (Guang Zhou)

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4. 重庆 chóng qìng (Chongqing)

5. 西安 xī ān (xi’an)

* Practice writing the characters:

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*Practice of Characters Reading Read the map of China, circle the 5 cities above, and write down pinyin for each of them.

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DAY 4

Topic: I like Beijing. EQ: How to combine learned vocabulary and sentences with new vocabulary? Aim: Talk about the Chinese cities you like or you want to live in.

*Drill:

Example #1: I like New York. wǒ xǐ huān niǔ yüē 。

Example #2: I like to live in New York. wǒ xǐ huān zhù zài niǔ yüē。

Example #3: Where is New York? niǔ yüē zài nǎ lǐ︖

1. I like Beijing. Mandarin: ____________________

2. She doesn’t like Shanghai. Mandarin: ____________________

3. He also doesn’t like Shanghai. Mandarin: ____________________

4. She likes to live in Chongqing and Xi’an. Mandarin: ____________________

5. Her friend likes Guang Zhou.Mandarin: ____________________

6. Where is Guangzhou?Mandarin: ____________________

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7. He likes to live in Beijing.Mandarin: ____________________

DAY 5

Topic: Characteristics of Cities EQ: How does an adjective match a city? Aim: Match the adjectives with a city.

*Read aloud the following vocabulary

1. ⼤ dà （big, large）

2. ⼩ xiǎo (small, little)

3. ⼲净 gān jìng (clean)

4. 脏 zāng (dirty)

5. 新 xīn (new)

6. 旧 jiù (old)

*Write an adjective in pinyin or characters beside each city.

纽约 niu yue [ ]

波⼠顿 bo shi dun [ ]

三藩 san fan [ ]

华盛顿 hua sheng dun [ ]

北京 beijing [ ]

上海 shanghai [ ]

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DAY 6

Topic: Review, Reinforce, and Memorize the Vocabulary EQ: How to memorize the vocabulary and write the characters properly? Aim: Write characters and memorize the vocabulary.

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DAY 7

Topic: Beijing is big. EQ: How to use a complete sentence to describe a city? Aim: Talk about the characteristics of cities.

*Vocabulary:

1. 很 hěn (adverb, very) 2. 有点⼉ yǒu diǎnr (a little bit)

*New Construction:

Subject + “很 (hen)”/“有点⼉(yǒu diǎnr)” +Predicative (Adjectives)

Example #1: New York is very big. niǔ yüē hěn dà。

Example #2: Washington D.C. is a little bit small. huá shèng dùn yǒu diǎnr xiǎo。

*Drill:

1. Beijing is very big. Mandarin: _______________________________。

2. Shanghai is a little bit new. Mandarin: _______________________________。

3. Chongqing and Guangzhou are very old. Mandarin: _______________________________。

*Practice Writing Characters:

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