August+25+and+26+homework

Homework: Go through http://china-characters.wikispaces.com/ for 15 minutes on both Tuesday night and Wednesday night. Do the assignments and turn them in on Thursday, August 27.

Today in class we divided into four groups: 1. TPR: For the words, walk, speak/say, can, call, like, fly, live, I/me, you, he/him, she/her. 2. Listened to our self introductions 3. Spontaneous translations with me. 4. A Pocket full of words--making sentences with nouns and verbs that you have learned.

3. Here are the sentences you translated. Check to see if you can still translate them on your own" There is a bird. There is a cow. The bird and the cow are friends. The friends like to walk.   There is a mountain. On top of the mountain there is a tree. In the tree there is a little bird.  The bird is in the nest. The nest is big. The bird is small. The bird can’t walk. The cow can’t fly. The bird is on the cow. The cow is under the house.   You are my friend. He is my dad. She is my mom. I am with her. She is with me.  I am her friend. He is not my friend. He is my dad’s friend.  She is not my mom. She is my friend. Do you have a friend?  4. Here is a pocket full of words that you used to create as many sentences as you could in 13 minutes:   __ Nouns __  __Verbs__    I/me wo3 like xi3huan1  You ni3 can hui4  He/Him  ta1 call jiao4   She/Her ta1 say/speak shuo1   Bird niao(r) 3 fly fei1   Cat mao1 walk zou3  Dog gou3 live zhu4zai4 (live at—wo3 zhu4zai4 Centennial) Horse ma3 Cow niu2 Mom ma1ma Dad ba4ba Older Brother ge1ge1 Older Sister jie3jie3 Younger sister mei4mie4 Younger brother di4di4 Swim you2yong3 Play ball da3qiu2 Tennis da3wang2qiu2 Basketball da3lan3qiu2 Soccer ti1zu2qiu2