Dialogue

Practice
Narrative
Target sentence 1: () di
NP1 NP2 () V
Situation
a. Your friend asks you if you can lend him Chinese textbook. Tell him that youve already sold it.
b. You saw Meili at a party. Xiaoxie does not know Meili, so he asked you if you know her name.
Tell him you forgot her name.
c. Your brother wants to drink coke, but finds out that his coke was opened. He is very angry, so
he complains to mom that you drank his coke.

Target sentence 2: bio bi tu
NP1 bi NP2()V
a. A q B: _______________________ (My roommate rode my bike
back)
b. (your ex-girlfriend)_____________________ (I never thought my
girlfriend would see us).
c. A:B: _______________________ (, bi )
d. A: B: _________________________ (No, I put it on the chair)

Combination practice
a. l w
b.
c. tu
PuzzleFarmer crosses river
nng f (farmer) di h (tiger) zh (pig) kung h (n. river)
chun(boat)nng f dng w(animal) kung h
h di hli zh zh li h
nng f hzh h


Target sentence 3: l w mn b
wn
1) A B A is equivalent to B
a. Tell your friend 1,000 USD is equivalent to 6,245 CNY (Chinese Yuan, mn b)
b. 3,000 + 9,000 =?
c. You lost your homework, so you cant give it to your instructor. This is equivalent to my doing
nothing last night.
d. To say things like this means you do not want us to go with you.

2) Big numbers
wn 10,000 and multiples of 10,000
thousands hundreds tens

 Ex: 25,489

wn

Translation
a. 126,387
b. 7,839,423 .
Combination PracticeImagine you are a bank teller. Please tell your customer how much their
money is in foreign currency according to the most current conversion rates as below. Feel free to have
your calculator handy or write down numbers.

1 USD

mn b

ji

6.21

0.73

1.07

101.91

Example: 1,000 USD=6,210 CNY (Chinese Yuan)(also abbreviated as mn b)

__________________________ (foreign currency: mn b, u , ji , r )
Target sentence 4: bi tu kng

fear or be afraid of something, be afraid that

kng Adv. be afraid that something has happened or will happen. Its never followed by NP alone.
Fill-in-the-blank
a. d tng ________
b. wn d ________ r
c. ji ________
d. yng pio ________
lin
a. What are the things that you are afraid of?
b. Your friend invited you to a party, but you are still working on your Chinese homework. Tell
him politely that you might not be able to come.
c. A:
B:___________________________________________(kng )

Target sentence 5: h di
Verbs that get others to do things: invite, tell, make
NP1[//] NP2 + ActVP Get people to do things
Situations
a. Your colleague and you plan to hold an end-of-year party. You propose to invite your teacher to
the party.
b. You have a guest tonight. Your mom asks you to clean up the room before she comes back.
c. Tell you friend: I want to ask your older brother to help me study Chinese.

d. Your friend was not doing very well in the first quiz. Tell him not to be so sad and advise him to
ask teacher for help.
e. Its near Spring Festival. Your Chinese friend invites you to his/her home. His/her parents tell
you to make dumplings with them.
/ sentence/VP1, VP2 Talking about hypothetical situations, means if. is more
colloquial and more commonly used when expressing hypothetical situations.
Situations
a. wn
b. f
c. no()di
d.
Dialogue A & B
Target sentence 1: A: ________ di _______
: di di

(Subject) object + (PP)+ V : for a short time
a. You are entering China. The immigration officer asks you to show him your passport. What
would he/she say?
b. You are about to take an exam in 5 minutes, but you forget to bring your workbook. Ask
your classmate if he/she can let you look at the workbook for a minute.
c. You volunteer as a receptionist in the hub. Tell a student to fill out the form first, and then
sit in a nearby chair and wait for a few minutes.
d. Your classmate is listening to CD. You have never listened to that CD. Ask your classmate if
he/she can let you listen to it for a minute.
Target sentence 2:
+ directional expressions & +resultative verbs
a. h bng xing(fridge) b(steps)
__________________________________________________(Its a brain teaser!)
b. You did not do well in your homework; so your teacher tell you to study the grammar you
learned today, and afterward begin your homework.

Target sentence 3: --
or More or less this amount
Number + CL (+N)

+ Number + CL (+N) almost

Ex: around an hour; a bit more or less than an hour

PracticePlease provide a short answer to each question in Mandarin.
a. CHNS 110 has three sections. Student numbers of each section are as follows: 19, 20, 21.
CHNS110 bn ? _______________________

b. Student 1 completed the test in 45 minutes, while student 2 and 3 completed the test in 50
minutes and 40 minutes respectively.
? ______________________________
Target sentence 4 zh
Subject + S Subject assumes
a.
___________________________________[, (kn)]
b. Talk about one thing that you mistakenly assumed using + S.
c. You thought Chinese is easy to learn, but you did not expect Chinese tones would be so hard.
____________________, __________________________


Communicative Practice
Instructions: Complete this task with your instructor. A lost something and ask B () for help. B
asks A what happened and try out help A find the missing stuff. Then, A will fill out a form and hand it in
to B later. If you are A, pick a cue card and respond to B according to the cue card.

A
Vocab and structure
B
Excuse me, my _____ was lost.
Can you help me look for it?

di
NP (PP) + V

When was it lost? Where was it

lost? Tell me what happened.

Describe what happened

according to the cue card.

(kn)

Free response. You may ask:

Ask about the detail of the lost
item: color, size, value, etc.

Respond to B if any questions

asked.

Tell B you will pay attention to

your own things from now on.

Zh

Tell A to pay attention to his/her

own things.

Zh
tin
bio

zh

Tell A to fill out a form (give A the

form).

Complete the form and then give it to B later.

Tell A do not be too sad/angry and

comfort him/her. ()

Instruct A to write the date, time,

name, cell phone number,
address, and location where the
item was lost.