Week 1/21-2/1 (Weeks 20 & 21)

The break down for these two weeks:

Week 20:
-Take speaking portion of midterm on Wednesday 1/23


Week 21:
-Exam Monday (morning) 1/28
-Learn about "A day in the life of a Chinese teenager" on Friday 2/1

Midterm listening practice

Click HERE to listen to the passage you heard in class:

Yes/No question answers

Note: Here the tone mark is indicated by the number behind the Pinyin word because I can not type with tone marks. In actual midterm you would write the tone marks on the Pinyin words.

1. Is Lucy learning Chinese?
Lucy 学中文吗？
Lucy 学不学中文？

2. Does your dad play basketball?
你的爸爸打lan2qiu2吗？
你的爸爸打不打lan2qiu2？

3. Is your little brother 13 years old?
你的弟弟十三岁吗？
你的弟弟是不是十三岁？

4. Is your mother Mary?
你的妈妈是Mary吗？
你的妈妈是不是Mary?

5. Do you have 2 dogs?
你有二(liang3) zhi1gou3吗？
你有没有二(liang3) zhi1 gou3?

6. Do you live in Canada?
你住在Jia1na2da4 吗？
你住不住在jia1na2da4?

7. Is your little sister learning Japanese?
你的妹妹学日文吗？
你的妹妹学不学日文？

8. Are you Tom?
你是Tom吗？
你是不是Tom?

9. Is your older brother 12th grade?
你的哥哥十二年级吗？
你的哥哥是不是十二年级？

10. Do you play American football?
你ti1 mei3shi4zu2qiu2吗？
你ti1不ti1 mei3shi4zu2qiu2？

11. Does your friend have 20 birds?
你的朋友有二十zhi1niao3吗？
你的朋友有没有二十zhi1niao3?

Reading review answers

Click HERE to listen to passage

My little brother is called Leon. He's 10 years old, in 4th grade. He can speak Spanish and English. He can speak a little French. He plays Chinese hackeysack and basketball. He is very short, rather chubby, not very smart. His pet is a bird and 34 fish. His bird is very small and very fat, fish is very pretty.

I am female. I am 14 years old, 10th grade. I can speak Spanish, English and Russian. I am learning Japanese and German. I play volleyball and baseball. I am very tall, a little skinny, rather smart. My pet is a dog. My dog is called Toro, he's not fat not skinny, very friendly. My dog is 4 years old. Dog's 4 years old is people's 28 years old (or 4 years in dog years is 28 years in people's years).

My good friend is called Tayler. Tayler is male. He's 16 years old, 11th grade. Tayler is Chinese. He's very smart, rather handsome, very funny. Tayler can speak English, Korean and Chinese. He's learning Japanese. Taylor plays soccer and basketball. He's from China, him and his mother live in England.

Yes/No Review Questions

Chinese 1                    Midterm practice                               Yes/No Question

A. Rewrite the questions using Verb-不-Verb form or Verb-没-Verb form (in line A) and 吗 form (in line B) using a mixture of characters and Pinyin.

1. Is Lucy learning Chinese?

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

2. Does you dad play basketball?

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

3. Is your little brother 13 years old?

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

4. Is your mother Mary?

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

5. Do you have 2 dogs? (Do not forget to include count word) 

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

6. Do you live in Canada?

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

7. Is your little sister learning Japanese?

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

8. Are you Tom?

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

9. Is your older brother 12^th grade?

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

10. Do you play American football?

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

12. Does your friend have 20 birds? (include count word)

A.______________________________________________________________________

B. ._____________________________________________________________________

Midterm Exam Study Guide

中文1 Midterm Study Guide                        Speaking: Wednesday (1/23)

                                                                        Exam: Monday (1/28) Morning

Areas covered: (You should be able to read, spell in Pinyin, say and understand the following topics) 

*Pinyin alphabets (know pronunciation)                   

*Tone marks                                                                *Self-introduction (questions and answers)

*Sports                                                                        *Languages

*Chinese radicals                                                        *Nationalities                                     

*Family                                                                       *Pets (and counting words)   

*Descriptions (both physical and personality)            *Degree modifiers

*Yes/No questions (吗, verb-不-verb, verb-没-verb)

WFR 1-6

1. 我，我们，你，你们，他，他们，她，她们，叫，是，年级，几岁，吗，的，什么，名字

2. 谁，朋友，打，踢，也，老师，球

3. 从，来，不，学，哪里，住在，国，哪，语文，会，说，英文，美国，中国，西班牙文，法文, 德文，拉丁文，手语，俄文，意大利文，阿拉伯文

4. 家，这，爸爸，妈妈，哥哥，姐姐，弟弟，妹妹，还有，和，爷爷，奶奶，外公，外婆，有，呢，个

5. 猫，狗，鱼，鸟，只，条，口，个，家人，篮球，棒球，网球，乒乓球，排球，毽子，足球，美式足球，韩文，印度文

6.很___，挺___的，有一点___，不___，是女的，是男的，宠物

Character sets 1-12                                                                                        

一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十

1。 中          文          人          大          天  

2。 日          月          上          下          小  

3。 金          木          水          火          土

4。 耳          目          心          口          手

5。 我          你          您          她          他

6。 不          是          很          好          吗

7.    叫          几          岁          年          级

8.    什          么          名          字          的

9.    家          有          会          说          没                           

10. 从            来         学            哪 里

11. 爸           妈          住            在         国

12. 哥           姐          弟            妹         和                

Week 1/14 to 1/18 (Week 19)

This week we will:

• Review character sets 1-12 for sentence writing quiz on Wednesday 
• Review adjectives and degree modifiers
• Review Yes/No questions
• Midterm reading, writing, speaking and listening review

Homework: 

-Study for character sets 1-12 sentence writing quiz on Wednesday
-Complete family picture/paragraph for Friday 

-Midterm speaking next Wednesday (1/23) 

-Chinese midterm Monday morning (1/28)

Week 1/7 to 1/9 (Week 18)

This week we will:

• Learn adjectives 
• Practice degree modifiers 
• Learn character set 12

Homework: 

-Character sheet set 12 due Wednesday 

-Character Quiz sets 1-12 (sentence writing) next Wednesday