Tuesday, 5 November 2013

[Year 8] Pets - Translation Homework

Translation: write in characters AND pinyin.
1.I have a dog.
2.You have two big cats.
3.Dad has eight small snakes.
4.He doesn’t have rabbits.
5.Do you have fish?
Extension:
Write a short paragraph about your pets or animals.
Example:
我有两只小狗和(hé, and)一只大猫。这是我的(wǒ de, my)猫,它(tā, it)叫Archie。我没有兔子。

Monday, 4 November 2013

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

[Culture] 爱上台北的28个原因 28 Reasons To Love Taipei

你想去台北吗?   
   Will this post make you want to explore Taipei 台北?

Sunday, 20 October 2013

[Year 8] 08AFS GoChinese homework

Dear 08AFS,

As the GoChinese website was down when we previously had the exam, you need to complete this exercise as homework but 'under test conditions'.

Please click here for more information. For questions about  ''Tones', please read this website.

Have a nice half-term.

Miss Huang 黄老师

Monday, 14 October 2013

[Year 8] Test on 3 sentences after half-term.

You need to write the following sentences in characters and pinyin off by heart. 
Please click on the characters and follow the strokes to write them. 

我很好。wǒ hěn hǎo.
你是中国人。nǐ shì zhōng guó rén.
我家在北京。wǒ jiā zài běi jīng.

Monday, 7 October 2013

[Year 8] Speaking, Listening and Reading tests

Click the following links to help you revise. 
Tones
Greetings VOC
Countries and Nationality VOC
Cities VOC

 Speaking test
Work in a group of 2~3, you need to include the following information:
1.Greetings (hello, how are you?, goodbye)
2.Names (你叫什么? 我叫...)
3.Nationality (你是哪国人? 我是...)
4.The city you live (你家在哪儿? 我家在...)
5.Extension: information of your family members

What am I looking for? (Success criteria)
1.Include all the information needed
2.Accuracy
3.Fluency
4.Good pronunciation (work on your tones!)
5.Use various sentence patterns (e.g. 你呢?)
6.Remember by heart
7.Extension: acting, X-factor


Listening and Reading test: 
Textbook Unit 1 only
Listening test:
1. Tones
2. Short phrases or words to English.
3. Listening comprehension (longer paragraph).

Reading test:
1. Match up: Vocabulary (pinyin/characters)
2.
Short phrases or words to English.
3. Sentence structure: re-arrange word orders (pinyin/characters)
4. Reading comprehension
(longer paragraph).