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Dear parents and students, 新年快乐！Happy Chinese New Year! This week we learned the first two paragraphs of The Phantom of The Opera. All of you got a Chinese version of the lyrics. I hope you can watch the Chinese version again and try to pronounce the rest of the lyrics.  Next week we will continue to learn Chapter 2 about family members. Please preview the text on page 8 and think about how to introduce your family. I understand that because of the culture differences, the names in Chinese and English have slightly differences, which may increase the difficulty to memorize them. Next week, I want to invite you to explore the differences related to family between eastern and western ideology.  Besides, since this week we did not have enough time to go over the knowledge about numbers, we will take an oral quiz at the beginning of the next class. Hope all of you can review the previous knowledge and prepare for the quiz. Thank you! Best, Tianyi   ...

Hello everyone, This week we learned how to write your address in Chinese and how to count numbers from 1 to 999. Please preview the text of chapter 1 and think about how to ask your partner's address and telephone number, as well as how to pronounce your address and number in Chinese. At the beginning of the next class, I will invite you to choose a partner, come to the front, and then make a conversation with your partner. Although you do not have written homework, it does not mean you do not homework this week. I will evaluate your performance according to next week's conversation. Besides, after discussion and negotiation, this week, we decided to choose the Chinese version of The Phantom of the Opera to do our final performance. Please remember to watch the YouTube video (both English and Chinese version) to get familiar with the melody and lyrics of this song. Thank you! Looking forward to seeing you next week. Best, Tianyi

Hi everyone, You need to attend the final exam on Nov. 23rd, before the vacation of Thanksgiving. This semester we learned from chapter 11 My Pets to the last chapter My Room so that our test range includes these chapters. You also need to review the words related to colors. I'd already introduce the structure of this test in class. The first part is multiple choices. You need to choose the most suitable answer from the following four options. The second part requires you to use pinyin to spell the name of each item according to the following pictures. The third part is about circling the radical of each character and the fourth part needs you to use words, phrases, or sentences to describe a picture. The fifth part requires you to write a short essay related to your home and your room. You need to pay more attention to the last part: make a conversation with your partner. Before this test, you should find a partner and practice with him or her. You can pick whatever you want t...

Hi everyone, Last Saturday we learned chapter 16 My Room, including the key words, the text, radicals, and prefix and suffix in Chinese. Please remember to review all of these before next Saturday. Next week, we will continue watching the YouTube video and discussing the differences between traditional Chinese and western furniture. Homework: Please finish the exercises on the workbook (Page 124-128) and don't forget to bring your homework next class! For some students who do not have the workbook, I attached the scan document here. Thank you! For those students who were absent several times, please remember to check my blog and use the online tools to do self-learning to catch up with other classmates! Looking forward to seeing you next Saturday!  

Hello everyone! Last Saturday we reviewed the chapter 14 My stationary and started to learn chapter 15 My house. Since you did not have homework for nearly three weeks, I want you to complete the homework for chapter 14 and 15 this time. Some of you were absent on October 5th, so I highly recommend you to utilize the following links to learn the vocabulary and text in chapter 14 independently. If you have some questions, do not hesitate to email me or bring your questions to the next class. Next Saturday we will celebrate Halloween. Although we will not attend the trick or treat activity with other classes on the first floor (most of them are little babies), I still want to encourage you to bring some candies or dress up next week! Besides, last week most of you told me that you want to learn some words related to Halloween so that next class, we will not only focus on learning chapter 15 but also learning the new words, phrases or sentences about this festival. I also want to intr...

Hi everyone, This week we finished learning chapter 12 and started to learn chapter 13: fast food. The activities in class reflected that some of you are not familiar with words about color, fruit, or vegetables. Please use the textbook and your own notebook to strengthen your memory. Next class, we will still learn chapter 13. You also need to review the new words about various kinds of fast food we learned in class. Homework: Since some students do not have exercise book, I will attached the scan document in my email. Please remember to complete your homework and bring it to class next Saturday. Exercise book: page 100-103. Some students were absent this Saturday. You need to do extra work to catch up with other students. You can use the following resources to learn the new knowledge. Announcement: The storytelling contest will be held on 10/19. If you are interested in attending this activity, please start to prepare for it soon! If you have any questions, do not hes...

Hi everyone, We learned chapter 12 fruit and vegetables and the background knowledge about the development of radicals and characters this Saturday. Do you still remember the differences between monosyllable and two-syllable words? Which one is more popular in modern Mandarin Chinese? Also, Irene came to our class and taught four tones and new words. In the next class, we will continue watching the YouTube video about the silk road first. Then, some new words about fruit and vegetables will be introduced in the next part. Finally, I hope all of you can use the sentence pattern and new words to create your daily recipe. If possible, please remember to bring your color pencils to class so that you can make your recipe look colorful and fancy. After creating the recipe, you will be invited to do a short presentation and introduce how to implement your healthy diet to the whole class. Homework: Please think about the following question and write down your answer in a piece of paper....