Syllabus
Second Year, First Semester, Second Week
 
 
Contents     Unit 5, Lesson 1
    1. Red book p. 72.
    2. Blue book p 72, 73. 
    3. Supplementary materials: Unit 5 Lesson 1, grammar part, text, listening comprehension.
    4. Yellow Book p. 86 - 90.
Important words     1. xie1 (yi4xie1, zhei4xie1, nei4xie1, nei3xie1, xie1shen2me).
    2. da4gai4, dang1ran2, yi2ding4, ken3ding4.
    3. you4, zai4. (again in the past and future)
    4. zai4 ... yi3qian2, cong2 ...
Important grammar      1. (gei3 somebody) da3dian4hua4 (gei3/gao4su somebody), da3dian4hua4shuo1 something. da3dian4hua4 hui2jia1, lai2/qu4 dian4hua4.
    2. Predicative complement.
    3. Isolated event in the past le.
Assignments 
(not to submit but the red parts will be tested in weekly quiz)
    1. To memorize the text (blue p. 73) by listening to the tape and reading with the tape.
    2. To read the Red Book's grammar and culture notes (p. 173 - 175).
    3. To memorize the 25 characters of the week (Yellow p. 86 - 90).
    4. To read the sentences and the dialogues of the Yellow Book (p. 86 - 90)
    5. To learn and to memorize assigned new words in this week's text. (white p. 6-7)
Assignments 
(to submit)
    1. Translation of the Red Book (p. 177). 33%
    2. This week's 25 characters (Yellow, p. 86 - 90). 33%
    3. Yellow Book's exercises (p. 86 - 90). 34%
Web Assignments     1. Download and preview the next week's syllabus.
    2. This week's web Chinese exercises:
        (1) Listening comprehension.
        (2) This week's Children's song.
        (3) This week's difficult characters.
        (4) This week's joke in Chinese.
        (5) This week's classic poem.