IC Lesson 16 Audio Practice
revised May 17, 2005

  1. Speaking: Repeat after the speaker in the sound files, and record your voice using Audacity. Focus on dialogue two. Play back each sentence to match your pronunciation with the native speaker. Do each sentence several times until your pronunciation is as close as possible.
  2. Structure: Go to the Lesson 16 sentence patterns. Be sure to click through to all the patterns for lesson 16.
  3. Video Scavenger Hunt: View the video clips and write down in Chinese any expressions you recognize.
  4. Doctor Jokes: Go the the USC supplementary reading site and read a couple of doctor jokes in Chinese. If you encounter some characters you haven't learned, look them up by radical in the dictionary. You may find it useful to increase the font size in order to see all the strokes in each character. Write a summary of one joke in English. For extra credit, prepare a joke to tell the class. You may memorize it as written, or retell it in your own words using more language structures you have already learned.
  5. Other activities:
    1. Use the animated character application for Lesson 16 (write characters and radicals on your worksheet).
    2. Play games: characters-pinyin, pinyin-English, characters-English.
    3. Play the vocabulary quiz game for this lesson (select "large fonts" first).