Mandarin Beginners
This course uses the first half of: Chinese GCSE 1
ISBN 978-1907838002
Week 1Textbook: Unit 1 Greetings and Introductions 问好和介绍 Lesson 1 – Hello! 你好 (p 1-4) |
Topic: Greetings 问好 New Words: See p1Sentence Patterns: 你好！你好吗？我很好。Characters: 你 我 好 Numbers: 四 五 六 七 |
Grammar and pronunciation:- Personal Pronouns: 你 nĭ (you), 我wŏ (I, me)- Adjective: 好 hăo - Interrogative particle: …吗ma? - Adverbs - The neutral tone Writing:Chinese characters and Stroke order |
Activities/other information: - Introduction to Chinese Phonetic Transcription (Pinyin): Initials, finals, tones & rules (handouts)- Appendix 3 Social Greetings & Appendix 4 Classroom Expressions (p. x)- Introduction to Chinese characters – the evolution of characters, strokes of Chinese characters and stroke order of Chinese characters (handouts)Culture Note: Chinese Greeting 你好! Nĭ hăo! (Hello!) is commonly used to address strangers or between acquaintances. To reply, simply repeat你好! Nĭ hăo! (Hello!) |
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Week 2Textbook: Unit 1 Greetings and Introductions 问好和介绍 Lesson 2 – What’s your name? 你叫什么？(p5-10) |
Topic: Names and Nationalities 名字和国籍Sentence patterns: 你叫什么？我叫玛丽。 你 是英国人吗？我是中国人。他不是中国人。New Words: See p5Characters: 是 中 国 人 不 英 Numbers: 八 九 |
Grammar and pronunciation:-The verb是 shì (to be), as a copula verb-The adv 不bù (no, not) - Position of the interrogative pronoun, such as 什么 shénme (what) |
Activities/other information: - Exercises 1- 6 from lesson one (p3) - More practice of Pinyin and tones and character writing. - Students greeting each other, asking names and nationalities. - Aim: To get students to know each other through...