Monday, June 15, 2015

Ocean Heaven -- Part. 3

Please watch the movie: Ocean Heaven.
LANGUAGE  POINTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWAknxhWNZI

  1. 要:need to do something & 想:want to do something 
  2. 是...的 structure 
  3. 就:  to show the earliness of the action 
  4. 把 structure
  5. ...的时候:when...
Please try to say the following sentences in Chinese.
  1. Dafu, you need to greet principal Liu when you meet him.
  2. We are here looking for principal Liu.
  3. They are here looking for Prof. Li.
  4. Principal Liu just retired last year.
  5. I already arrived at school at 5.00 a.m. this morning. 
  6. I want to send Dafu back to school again.
  7. How can I joke about this issue? (怎么,rhetorical question)
  8. When Dafu was 7, his mother died in an accident. 
CULTURE NOTES
  1. In Chinese culture, when we ask a person's name, why do we ask for their family name first?
  2. Due to the ______________, patients in smaller cities and rural areas have to go to Beijing or other larger cities for better medical treatments.
  3. In China, everyone is required by law to receive _______ years of compulsory education, until the age of ______. 
  4. When talking about someone passed away, Chinese people use euphemism. Instead of saying 死了, they might use _________________________________.
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