Chinese in Focus

I’m sure you remember the time 马克、吴刚、嫦娥 and 小兔子 went shopping to 香港.
 

Watch the video and write the dialogue between 吴刚，小兔子 and the clerk completely in Chinese. Then add a few more sentences from the ones you learned from Living in China to enrich the dialogue.

If you...

Do you remember 嫦娥's story?

Watch the video, then make questions in Chinese and answer your friends' questions using the functions from the list.

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1. A...

Hi there. 

This is a self-evaluation.

Here is the list of all the communicative functions that we have studied in Level 2 Living in China.

Go ahead and try to make at least one sentence with each of them.

1.   Asking if someone knows something.

2.  Asking where someone...

As you know, pictophonetics are characters made by combining a component that indicates the meaning (radical) and another component that indicates the pronunciation (phonetic component).

Here we have some common radicals and phonetic components.

Form as many characters...

Do you remember that radicals give you a hint of the meaning of the characters?

Find at least one character with each of the following radicals. Then write the character's pīnyīn (with tones) and meaning in English.

You might need to write a disyllabic word if you can...

I love Chinese characters!

The can be structured in so many ways, but always inside a square shape.

Can you find at least one character for each of these structures?

Hi there!

Let's play a game!

Find the following things in the pictures and write how many of each there are.

Remember to use the correct measure words for each thing.

牛     先生     女士     山     狗  

龙     马     虎     鸡     羊...

As you know, in Chinese many words with different meanings have exactly the same pronunciation, they are called homophones (homo-, same; -phone, sound).

Here are some words and their pīnyīn. Can you find at least one homophone for each of them?

1.    bān 班

2....

Find the missing character. 

Each group of words is missing the same character (★). Can you find it?

1. 红★   白★   黄★

2. ★会   飞★

3. ★家   ★来   ★国

4. ★来   ★面

5. 一★   决★   肯★

6. ★步   ★上

7. 聪★   ★天   ★星

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