Chinese Language Intermediate 1 Lifestyle/Education and Work Personal Identification House and Home...

Chinese Language Intermediate 1

Lifestyle/Education and WorkPersonal Identification

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Targets for this section Targets for this section

1. To be able to give information about self

2. To be able to give information about family

3. To be able to describe places in town

4. To be able to describe one’s hobbies

5. To know the appropriate way to present information in a letter in Chinese

1. To be able to give information about self

2. To be able to give information about family

3. To be able to describe places in town

4. To be able to describe one’s hobbies

5. To know the appropriate way to present information in a letter in Chinese

Activity 1: Reading comprehension

Targets for Activity 1

1. To become familiar with the way personal information, hobbies and fun places in a town are presented in a short piece of writing

2. To be able to use the appropriate way to address different members of a family in Mandarin

Brothers and sisters

• In Chinese ‘brother’ can either mean 哥哥gēge(elder brother) or 弟弟 dìdi (younger brother).

• ‘Sister’ can either mean 姐姐 jiějie (elder sister) or 妹妹 mèi mei(younger sister)

• In Chinese ‘brother’ can either mean 哥哥gēge(elder brother) or 弟弟 dìdi (younger brother).

• ‘Sister’ can either mean 姐姐 jiějie (elder sister) or 妹妹 mèi mei(younger sister)

Cousin

The one-child policy means Chinese pupils will have lots of cousins. It is important for us to familiarise ourselves with how cousin can be expressed in Chinese.

Cousin can mean

•堂兄 tángxiōng

•堂弟 tángdì

•堂姐 tángjiě

•堂妹 tángmèi,

• 表兄 biǎoxiōng

• 表弟 biǎodì

• 表姐 biǎojiě

• 表妹 biǎomèi

How do we express “cousin” in Mandarin?


In general, you can follow these hints:

• First decide whether they are on your father’s side or mother’s side.

1. If they are on your father’s side, use堂 táng

2. If they are on your mother’s side, use表 biǎo

In general, you can follow these hints:

• First decide whether they are on your father’s side or mother’s side.

1. If they are on your father’s side, use堂 táng

2. If they are on your mother’s side, use表 biǎo


• Second decide whether they are older or younger than you.

1. If they are older than you, use 兄 xiōng for male or 姐 jiěfor female

2. If they are younger than you, use 弟 dìfor male or 妹 mèi for female

• Second decide whether they are older or younger than you.

1. If they are older than you, use 兄 xiōng for male or 姐 jiěfor female

2. If they are younger than you, use 弟 dìfor male or 妹 mèi for female

Exercise 1.1: Reading comprehension

You are taking part in a summer exchange programme in Beijing which has been organised between Scotland and China. Your exchange partner in China introduces herself by email.

寄件者：　馬麗麗 <[email protected]>收件人：　林娜 <[email protected]>日期： 2008-11-21主題：　你的交流夥伴

Exercise 1.1: Reading comprehensionWord list

1. 交流夥伴 Jiāoliú huǒbàn exchange partner

2. 已經 yǐjing already

3. 表姐 biǎojiě cousin; sister-in-law

4. 表姐妹 biǎojiěmèi cousins; sisters-in-law

5. 天安門 tiān ānmén Tiananmen Square

6. 長城 chángchéng the Great Wall of China

7. 故宮 gùgōng the Forbidden City

8. 天壇 tiāntán Temple of Heaven

9. 希望 xīwàng hope

Family members

• If you have one elder brother and a younger sister, what do you call them in Chinese?

• If you have an elder sister, what do you call her in Chinese?

Family members

• If you have one elder brother and a younger sister, what do you call them in Chinese?

• Answer:• 哥哥• 妹妹

• If you have an elder sister, what do you call her in Chinese?

• Answer:• 姐姐

• David has a cousin called Tom. He is David’s father’s brother’s son. He is one year younger than David. What word should David use to address him?

• Your father has a younger sister. She has a daughter called Lindsay. She is older than you. What word should you use to address her?

• David has a cousin called Tom. He is David’s father’s brother’s son. He is one year younger than David. What word should David use to address him?

Answer:

• Your father has a younger sister. She has a daughter called Lindsay. She is older than you. What word should you use to address her?

• Answer:

• John’s mother has a younger sister, Catherine. Catherine has one son who is two years older than John. What word should John use to address him?

• Jane’s father has an elder brother. He has a son who is three years younger than Jane. What word should Jane use to address him?

• John’s mother has a younger sister, Catherine. Catherine has one son who is two years older than john. What word should John use to address him?

• Answer:

• Jane’s father has an elder brother. He has a son who is

three years younger than Jane. What word should Jane use to address him?

• Answer:

Activity 2: Language


1. To know how to turn personal pronouns into plural by using們men

2. To know how to use的 de to form possessive pronouns

Possessive pronouns

Singular Possessive pronouns

Plural Possessive pronouns

我(I) 我的(my) 我们(we) 我们的(our) 你(you) 你的(your) 你们(you) 你们的(your) 他(he) 他的(his) 他们(they) 他们的(their) 她(she) 她的(her) 她们(they, female) 她们的(their, female)

Usage of‘們 men’ and‘的 de’

• When we pluralise personal pronouns such as 我 wǒ, 你 nǐ, 他 tā and 她 tāin Chinese, we can simply add the suffix word們men.

• How can we express ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘his’, ‘her’, ‘our’, ‘your’ and ‘theirs’ in Chinese? In Chinese we can simply add the character的de meaning ‘of’ after personal pronouns such as我 wǒ ，你 nǐ ，你們 nǐmenetc.

• 的 de may be omitted before nouns where the possessor has a close relationship with the person or object.

• For example, 我的媽媽 wǒ demāma (my mother) can be writtenas 我媽媽 wǒ māmaand 她的爸爸 tā de bàbaas 她爸爸 tābàba.

• However, when there is more than one possessor, one cannot say 他們爸爸 tāmēnbàba or 我們媽媽wǒmēnmāma.

How would you say these phrases in Chinese?

my father her mother his mother her older brother our younger sister

your son their daughter our sons my elder sisters his younger brothers

How would you say these in English?

我的我們的你的你們的

他的他們的她的她們的

Use的 deto fill in the blanks where necessary.

1.他 _______媽媽 2．爸爸 _______房間3．哥哥 _______書桌 4．他們 _______姐姐5．我們 _______老師 6．她 _______書7．我 _______姐姐 _______朋友8．他 _______弟弟 _______名字

Decide whether the following phrases are correct. If a sentence is right, draw a smile after the phrase. If it is not correct, draw a cross and correct it.

1. 我爸爸2. 他們媽媽3 ．她的姐姐4 ．他的哥哥5 ．她們的弟弟6 ．她弟弟

7 ．我哥哥們8. 你爸爸9 ．我們姐姐

Activity 3: Writing


1. To be able to write basic personal information 2. To be able to present personal information

about your family members 3. To be able to talk about your jobs and hobbies 4. To be able to give information on places in a

town

• We can add嗎 at the end of an affirmative sentence to turn it into a question sentence.

• For example,‘ 他喜歡足球。’ means ‘He likes football’. But we can add嗎 at the end and turn it into a question sentence:‘ 你喜歡足球嗎？’ , which means ‘Do you like football?’

• To answer a question, we can say: ‘ 是的’ for ‘yes’ or ‘不’ for no’.

• When expressing dislikes, we can add不 in front of the verb to turn an affirmative sentence into a negative sentence. Thus, if we want to say ‘I do not like football’ we can say:‘ 我不喜歡足球。’ .

Exercise 3.1

• Are you familiar with the way information such as personal information and places in a town are presented and what people do in their free time? Before you write, check whether you can say the following in Chinese. You can make notes in the space provided.

Example:

English Mandarin

How to present personal information:

your name

your age

your birthday

where you live

Exercise 3.2 Now compare your notes of Exercise 3.1 with the answers below.

English• How to present personal

information:• your name• your age• your birthday• where you live

Mandarin• How to present your

personal information:• 我叫、、、。• 我、、、歲。• 我的生日是、、、月、、

、日。• 我住在、、、。


English• How to present professions

and information family members:

• My mother is … (age).• She is … (profession)• Example:• My mother is a sales assistant. My dad is an engineer.

Mandarin• How to present professions

and information family members:

• 我媽媽、、、歲。• 她是、、、。• Example:• 我媽媽是售貨員。 • 爸爸是工程師。


English• How to express your

hobbies using‘喜欢’ (like) and‘不喜欢’ (dislike)

• Example:• I like playing basketball.• I don’t like playing badminton.

Mandarin• How to express your

hobbies using‘喜欢’ (like) and‘不喜欢’ (dislike)

• Example:• 我喜歡打籃球。• 我不喜歡打羽毛球。


English• How to express places for

fun in a town by using有 yǒu (have, has) and去 qù (go to)

• Example:• There are lots of fun places in Edinburgh.

• You can go to the seaside.

Mandarin• How to express places for fun

in a town by using有 yǒu (have, has) and去 qù (go to)

• Example:• 愛丁堡有很多好玩的地方。• 你可以去海邊


English• How to ask people for

personal information.• Example:• How old are you?• When is your birthday?• What are your hobbies?

Mandarin• How to ask people for

personal information.• Example:• 你多少歲？• 你的生日是幾月幾日？• 你的愛好是什麼？

Some words for Exercise 3.2

Mandarin• 有　　　 yǒu• 是 shì• 喜歡 xǐhuān• 去 qù• 到 dào• 在 zài• 嗎 ma

English• have/has• be; like• like• go (to)• go (to)• at/be/in• used at the end of a question

Exercise 3.3How would you say these in Chinese? Write down your answers.

• Hello. My Chinese name is Liu Yun. I am 10. I have one sister, who is 6.

• Liu Yun: 劉雲


• My Chinese name is Wang Xingli. I am 12. I like dancing.

• Wang Xingli: 王興麗


• Hello. I am Paul. I am 11. I have a brother, 13 and a sister, 9.

• Paul: 保羅


• My name is Jane. I am 14. I have a good friend. Her name is Hannah. She is 15. We like going on walks.

• Jane簡 [Jiǎn]

• Hannah 漢娜 [Hànnà]

Chinese script for Exercise 3.3

1. 你好 !我的中文名字叫劉雲。我十歲。我有一個妹妹，她六歲。

2. 我的中文名字叫王興麗。我十二歲。我喜歡跳舞。

3. 你好！我叫保羅。我十一歲。我有一個哥哥和一個妹妹。哥哥十三歲，妹妹九歲。

4. 我叫簡。我十四歲。我有一個好朋友，她叫漢娜，她十五歲。我們喜歡散步。

Exercise 3.4

Put the following sentences into English.

1.我爸爸五十歲。他是工程師。2.她媽媽和我媽媽是好朋友。3.哥哥二十五歲。他是老師。4.我的妹妹十二歲。她是中學生。5.他的弟弟十三歲。他喜歡踢足球。

Answers to Exercise 3.4

1. My father is 50. He is an engineer.

2. Her mother and my mother are good friends.

3. My brother is 25. He is a teacher.

4. My younger sister is 12. She is a secondary school student.

5. His younger brother is 13. He likes playing football.

Exercise 3.5

• Which word to use? Fill in the blanks with the appropriate verbs.

打看玩踢听上

打看玩踢听上

1. _______ 足球2. _______ 電視節目3. _______ 體操比賽4. _______ 網球5. _______ 高爾夫球6. _______ 音樂7. _______ 電子遊戲8. _______ 電腦

9. _______ 音樂會10. _______ 表演11. _______ 羽毛球12. _______ 騎馬比賽13. _______ 籃球14. _______ 書15. _______ 網

Exercise 3.6Use your answers for Exercise 3.5. Practise saying these phrases with your teacher or someone in your class. Try to use the following sentence pattern and ask them what their favourite sports are.

Sentence structure

Question: 你喜欢____________吗？

(Do you like …?)

Answer: 是的, 我喜欢____________。

(Yes, I do like …)

不, 我不喜欢____________。我喜欢____________。

(No. I do not like …. I like …)

Exercise 3.7Are there any interesting places in your town?How would you say the following sentences in Chinese? Choose at least five sentences and practise with your teacher or someone in the class. Refer to Exercise 3.1 and the vocabulary list if you need help.

There are a lot of shops and supermarkets in the city.

There is a big museum in the

city centre.

The beach is on the edge of

town.

The zoo is in the suburbs.

There are a lot of shopping centres, supermarkets and bookshops.

You can go to the beach.

You may go shopping.

There are a lot of parks in the

city.

Vocabulary: Places in town

Chinese Pinyin English

博物館 bówùguăn museum

超級市場 chāojí shìchăng supermarket

城市 chéngshì city

地方 dìfāng place

動物園 dòngwùyuán zoo

公園 gōngyuán park

購物 gòuwù shopping

海灘 hăitān seaside

郊區 jiāoqū suburbs

商場 shāngchăng shopping centre

商店 shāngdiàn shop

市中心 shìzhōngxīn city centre

書店 shūdiàn bookshop

運動場 yùndòngcháng stadium

Exercise 3.8

Using Activity sheet 3a try to write a simple response to Ma Lili. You should mention:

•age•family•professions•hobbies•places in your town

Good luck!

Example Activity 3a sheet

发件人：林娜 <[email protected]>

收件人：马丽丽 <[email protected]>

发件日期： 2009年 3月 8日

主题：回信

马丽丽:

你好!

谢谢你的电子邮件。很高兴收到你的来信。

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

谢谢

希望早日收到你的回信。

林娜

2009年 3月 10日

Activity 4: Listening and speaking


1.To be able to listen for details about family members such as names and ages

2.To be able to listen for different hobbies

Exercise 4.1

Listen to the following four speakers, who will each tell you a little about their family backgrounds.

Speaker 1

Speaker 2

Exercise 4.1

Listen to the following four speakers, who will each tell you a little about their family backgrounds.Speaker 3

Speaker 4

Exercise 4.1

TranscriptTranscript

Exercise 4.1 Transcript

• Speaker 1

你好！我叫馬大明。我十歲。我是獨生子。但是我有一個表姐和一個表哥。姐姐十五歲，哥哥十二歲。我喜歡踢足球，喜歡看電視上的足球比賽。

Speaker 1

Speaker 2


• Speaker 2

嗨！我叫李麗麗。我十一歲。我是獨生女。我喜歡唱歌、跳舞和騎馬。我不喜歡做家庭作業。

Speaker 1

Speaker 2


• Speaker 3

你好！我叫李小梅。我是臺灣人。我十二歲。我有兩個姐姐，但是沒有哥哥。一個姐姐十九歲，一個十六歲。我喜歡打網球，還喜歡星期六下午和朋友一起看電影。

Speaker 3

Speaker 4


• Speaker 4

你好！我叫王文平。我是香港人。我十歲。我有一個哥哥和一個弟弟。哥哥十三歲，弟弟八歲。我喜歡和他們打籃球。我還喜歡打電子遊戲。

Speaker 3

Speaker 4

Exercise 4.2

After you have listened to the recordings at least twice, fill in the following details about each speaker.

• Name: ___________________________

• Age: ____________________________

• Family: __________________________

• Family details: _____________________

• Hobbies: _________________________

Answers for Exercise 4.2Speaker 1

• Name: Ma Daming

• Age: 10

• Family: only child, but has two cousins (one female and one male)

• Family details: female cousin,15 years old, and male cousin, 12 years old

• Hobbies: playing football, watching football on the TV

Answers for Exercise 4.2

Speaker 2

• Name: Li Li

• Age: 11

• Family: only child

• Family details:

• Hobbies: dancing, singing, horse-riding; doesn’t like doing homework


Speaker 3

• Name: Li Xiaomei

• Age: 12

• Family: two elder sisters

• Family details: 19 and 16 years old

• Hobbies: playing tennis, watching films on Saturday afternoons with friends


Speaker 4

• Name: Wang Wenping

• Age: 10

• Family: one (elder) brother, one (younger) brother

• Family details: 13 and 8 years old

• Hobbies: playing basketball and computer games

Exercise 4.3

Using your answers to Exercise4.2,imagine that you are one of the speakers you listened to previously. Practice saying all the information you collected with someone else in your class.

• Saying hello:• 你好！• Saying your name:• 我叫彼得。• Saying your age• 我十歲。• Saying family members• 我有一個哥哥和一個弟弟。• Saying information about

family members:• 哥哥十三歲。弟弟八歲。

• Saying likes and dislikes• 我喜歡和他們打高爾夫球。• 我不喜歡打保齡球。• Asking about age:• 你多大？• 你多少歲？• Asking about hobbies:• 你的愛好是什麼？• Asking whether someone

likes something:• 你喜歡足球嗎？• 你喜歡看電視嗎？

Activity 5: More reading and writing


My learning targets 1 to be able to translate from Chinese to English on

information on personal identities, family members, professions, hobbies and places in town

2 to be able to translate from English to Chinese on information on personal identities, family members, professions, hobbies and places in town

Exercise 5.1

Translate this paragraph into English. Use the vocabulary list for help if necessary.

我叫方明。我是中國人。我住在中國昆明。我十六歲，是學生。

我沒有兄弟姐妹，但是我有一個表姐和一個表妹。表妹叫方萍，她十三歲，也是學生。

Exercise 5.1

表姐叫李麗。她二十五歲。她已經結婚了，有一個兒子，叫張俊。張俊四歲。表姐是秘書。她在辦公室工作。她的丈夫叫張小軍。他三十三歲，是會計。他是新加坡人，但是現在他住在中國。

我爸爸叫方偉平，媽媽叫劉小梅。媽媽四十二歲。她是售貨員，在一家商店工作。我爸爸四十三歲，是工程師。他有一個姐姐，我叫她姑媽。她的名字叫方蘭。她是護士。

People’s names in Exercise 5.1

People’s names

Chinese Pinyin Chinese Pinyin

方明方萍張俊張小軍

FāngMíngFāngPíngZhāng JùnZhǎng Xiǎojūn

方偉平劉小梅方蘭

Fāng WěipíngLiú XiǎoméiFāng Lán

Names of places, city and country mentioned in Exercise 5.1

Place / city / country Chinese English 昆明 Kūnmíng 新加坡 Xīnjiāpō

Kunming Singapore

Other words Chinese English 獨生子 dúshēngzi 秘書姑姑 gūgu 護士 hùshì 兄弟姐妹 xiōngdì jiěmèi 一個表姐和一個表妹 yí gè biǎojiě hé yí gè biǎomèi

single child sectary aunt nurse brothers and sisters two cousins

Vocabulary for Exercise 5.1

mì shū

Exercise 5.1Suggested answer

• My name is Fang Ming. I am Chinese. I live in Kunming in China. I am 16 and I am a student.

• I have no brothers or sisters but I have two cousins. The younger cousin is called Fang Ping. She is 13. She is also a student. She is an only child. My older cousin is called Li Li. She is 25. She is married. She has one son, Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun is 4 . Li Li is a secretary. She works in an office. Li Li’s husband is called Zhang Xiaojun. He is 33. He is an accountant. He is from Singapore but he lives in China now.

• My father is called Fang Weiping and my mother is called Liu Xiaomei. My mother is 42. She is a shop assistant. She works in a shop. My father is 43. He is an engineer. He has an elder sister, who is my aunt. Her name is Fang Lan. She is a nurse.

Exercise 5.2Try to translate into Chinese!

• My name is Fang Lan. I am 33 years old. I live in Shanghai China. I am married and I have one daughter. She is called Zhou Xiaoyun. She is two years old.

• My husband is called Zhou Zheng. He is 32 years old. He is a businessman. I am a English teacher.

Exercise 5.2 Try to translate into English!

• I have a younger brother. His name is Fang Ming. He is a bus driver. He is married and he lives with his wife Lin Xiaoping in Hangzhou. Fang Ming is 25 years old and Lin Xiaoping is 24.

• My husband Zhou Zheng has a younger sister. She is called Zhou Hong. Zhou Hong is 27. She is a student. She studies business. Now she lives in Britain. She is engaged. Her boyfriend is called Paul. He is Scottish. Paul is an engineer. They are coming to see us in Shanghai next year.

Vocabulary for Exercise 5.2Place/city

English ChineseShanghaiHangzhou

上海杭州

Vocabulary for Exercise 5.2People’s names

English Chinese

Fang LanZhou XiaoyunZhou ZhengFang MingLin XiaopingZhou HongPaul

方蘭周小雲周正方明林小萍周紅保羅

Vocabulary for Exercise 5.2Place/city

English ChineseShanghaiHangzhou

上海杭州

Exercise 5.2

Suggested answer

• 我叫方兰 . 我三十三歲。我住在中國上海。我已經結婚了，有一個女兒。她叫周小雲，她有兩歲。

• 我的丈夫叫周正。他三十二歲。他是商人。我是英語老師。• 我有一個弟弟，他叫方明。他是公共汽車司機。他已經結婚

了。他和妻子林小萍住在杭州。方明二十五歲，林小萍二十四歲。

• 我的丈夫周正有一個妹妹，她叫周紅。周紅二十七歲。她是學生。她學習商業。她現在住在英國。她已經訂婚了。她的男朋友叫保羅。他是蘇格蘭人。保羅是工程師。明年他們要來上海看我們。

You have done all the work!

Congratulations!

Supplementary Notes

How to address a letter in Mandarin

Emails

From: To: Cc: Bcc: Subject:

发件人：收件人：抄送: 密件抄送: 主题：

Words you may need to know in emails

• Cc: 抄送 [chāosòng]

• This Chinese phrase literally means ‘copy and deliver to’ and is used commonly in official emails and letters.

• Bcc: 密件副本 [ mìjiàn chāosòng]

• ‘ 密件’ , which means ‘confidential letter’ in Mandarin, is used here to express the same meaning as ‘hidden copy’ or ‘blind carbon copy’ in English.

Letters

Common rules you should know when replying to a letter in Chinese

• Be aware that the word‘ 親愛的 qīn ài de [darling]’ implies a very close relationship, such as family members, boyfriend or girlfriend rather than a polite greeting. So do not write‘ 親愛的 ...’ when replying to a letter unless you have become really good friends. Just start the letter with their name.

• Remember to use ‘:’ after you write the person’s name as the first line.

• When you write‘ 你好 nǐ hǎo’, leave a two-word space in front, and ‘ 你好 nǐ hǎo’ should stand on its own as a single line.

• It is polite to leave some good wishes at the end of your letter, like the English ‘Best wishes’, ‘Regards’ or ‘Cheers’. Usually people would write‘祝你 zhù nǐ (wish you…) ‘ ’平安 píng’ān (safe),‘ ’快樂 kuàile (happy),‘ 幸福xìngfú ’ (happy and blessed) or ‘ ’愉快 yúkuài (cheerful).’

• After you finish the letter, write your name in the lower right corner.

• Don’t forget to add the date underneath your name.

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