| Contents | A Trip to China, Lesson One
1. Orange book p. 2 - 3. 2. Black book p. 1 - 7. 3. Supplementary materials: Hua2xia4xing2 Lesson One, p. 42 - 46. |
| Important words | 1. Tong1guo4.
2. pai4. 3. jie1. 4. wu4dian3. 5. bu4an1. 6. xin1xian1, xing1fen4. |
| Important grammar | 1. duo1, black p. 3.
2. rang4, black p. 4. 3. cai2, jiu4, black p. 4 - 5. 4. cong2lai2, black p. 5 - 6. 5. dui4 ... lai2shuo1, black p. 6. |
| Assignments
(not to submit but the red parts will be tested in weekly quiz) |
1. To memorize the text (orange
p. 2, or 3).
2. To read the Black Book's grammar notes (p. 3 - 6). 3. To memorize the new words and characters (both traditional and simplified) of the week (Black p. 1 - 2). |
| Assignments
(to submit) |
1. Translation of the Black
Book (p. 6 - 7). 33%
2. This week's reading comprehension (Supplementary, p. 42 or 43, find the listed new words in your dictionary, write down their meanings, read the article and answer the questions). 33% 3. This week's composition (choose a subject from black p. 7, or Supplementary p. 42, or Supplementary p. 43, and write a composition of 100 characters). 34% (to view an excellent work done by previous years' student as a sample, click here) |
| Web Assignments | 1. Download and preview the next
week's syllabus.
2. This week's web Chinese exercises: (1) Listening comprehension. (2) Learn to write this week's new characters. (3) Listen and 'sing' this week's Children's song. (4) This week's joke in Chinese. (5) This week's classic poem. |