IC Lesson 17
Audio Practice
revised
June 6, 2005
- 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.
- Structure:
Go to the first Lesson 17 sentence
pattern and work through the patterns. Also read this page on potential complement
in contrast to descriptive (degree) complement. Make two columns on a sheet
of paper and write the answers to the "fill in the blank" questions.
- Video
Scavenger Hunt: View the video clips and write down in Chinese
any expressions you recognize.
- Look for familiar expressions
from recent lessons in these clips from Oxford: clip6, clip7, clip8, clip13
- tickets
What are they going to see? Where do their try to sit? Where are their real
seats? What did you learn about Chinese theaters?
- movie:
What movie are they going to see? Where is it being shown? How do they
express "showing a movie" in this clip (using a different word
from that in our text)?
- library:
What does the man ask her? What key word from lesson 17 is in the dialogue?
- study:
What does he want to do? What is the problem? Find the key word from
a
recent lesson.
- appointment:
Can you find the word that means "make an appointment"? Can you
find the word that means "please wait a moment"?
- sick
friend: What is the girl's problem? Where is she going to go?
- visiting
a friend Look for "progressive action" pattern. Can you figure
out the name of the gift item (hint: it is a food)?
- meeting
a friend: What is the first thing she says to him? What does this show
you? Where does the guy live?
- introductions:
What key pattern from a recent lesson is used here?
- classroom:
What new word can you learn from this very brief clip? What word from a
recent lesson is mentioned?
- Characters:
Use the animated
character application for Lesson 17. As you watch each character animate,
write the full character and just the radical next to it. Cluster characters
that share common radicals.
- Jokes:
Read jokes about marriage
and family (looking up any unknown words in zhongwen.com)
and copy your favorite on a plain piece of paper. Note that I have linked
you to the fifth joke in the sequence, because it has more words that you
know, so you may click on arrows to move both forward and backward from there.
- Vocabulary:
- Use the animated
character application for Lesson 17.
- Play games: characters-pinyin pinyin-English characters-English .
- Try the vocabulary
quiz game for this lesson (select "large fonts" first).