| Contents | A Trip to China, Lesson Two
1. Orange book p. 4 - 5. 2. Black book p. 8 - 16. 3. Supplementary materials: Hua2xia4xing2 Lesson Two, p. 47 - 51. |
| Important words | 1. fang1bian4.
2. sui2shen1. 3. yi2zai4. 4. xiang3xiang4. 5. he2. 6. qi3xian. 7. zhuang1. |
| Important grammar | 1. zhe, black p. 11.
2. xing4kui1 (hao3zai4, yi2ding4dei3) ... (bu4ran2), black p. 11 - 12, 14. 3. wei4le, shi4wei4le, black p. 12 - 13. 4. yong4bu4zhao2, bu2bi4, bu2yong4, black p. 13. 5. bi3jiao4, black p. 13 - 14. |
| Assignments
(not to submit but the red parts will be tested in weekly quiz) |
1. To memorize the text (orange
p. 4, or 5).
2. To read the Black Book's grammar notes (p. 11 - 14). 3. To memorize the new words and characters (both traditional and simplified) of the week (Black p. 8 - 10). |
| Assignments
(to submit) |
1. Translation of the Black
Book (p. 15 - 16). 33%
2. This week's reading comprehension (Supplementary, p. 47 or 48, find the listed new words in your dictionary, write down their meanings, read the article and answer the questions). 33% 3. This week's composition (choose a subject from black p. 16, or Supplementary p. 47, or Supplementary p. 48, and write a composition of 100 characters). 34% (to view an excellent work done by previous years' student as a sample, click here) |
| Web Assignments | 1. Download and preview the next
week's syllabus.
2. This week's web Chinese exercises: (1) Listening comprehension. (2) Learn to write this week's new characters. (3) Listen and 'sing' this week's Children's song. (4) This week's joke in Chinese. (5) This week's classic poem. |