Please watch the movie: Ocean Heaven.
LANGUAGE POINTS
- 没有 + 一 + measure word: exclusively all
- 值得+verb
- verb 不 verb
- 能 verb 的,我都 verb 了
- 嫌 + something + adj.
Idiomatic expression
- 退一万步讲
- 拜托
Please try to say the following sentences in Chinese.
- None of the Care Center will accept Dafu.
- There is no one at school this morning.
- I have no money with me.
- She thinks Laowang is a good man worth marrying.
- This book is worth reading.
- Hello, is this CI or not?
- I was wondering whether you would accept students who wants to learn Chinese.
- I have asked everywhere I can ask.
- I have searched everywhere I can look for.
- The orphanage dislikes that he is too old.
- The nursing home dislikes that he is too young.
- Can the insurance companies be responsible for this or not?
- Even if we say in the worst-case scenario...
- You need to get married in a couple of years.
- I have a few things I need to entrust you with.
CULTURE NOTES
- The age requirement for someone to live at a nurturing home in China is the same as the retirement age, which is ______ for male and _____ for female.
- In Chinese, "to get married" is said two ways depending on the gender of the person getting married. For women, we use the character 嫁. The left side is the _____ radical, meaning female and the right side of 嫁 is _____ , which means _________. Thus, 嫁 indicates that a woman with go to her husband's family. For a man, we use another character _____. On the top, 取 means "to receive, to take", and the bottom part, 女 means female. The combination of 取 and 女 shows that the man will receive the woman into his family.
- ______ comes from the Buddhist concept of Yama (King of Hell). In Buddhist mythology, he is a wrathful god, said to judge the dead and preside over the Hells and the cycle of rebirth.
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