我收到最棒的生日礼物

Excellent jobs on Thanksgiving weekend homework, I am really proud of your work and glad to see that you are all thankful for your family and friends.
感恩节的功课,每个同学都做得很棒.老师很高兴看到你们都知道感谢自己的爸爸妈妈,因为他们最辛苦.朋友也是我们应该感谢的人,因为他们每天都在我们的身边帮我们.
The next topic we will cover is 'Birthdays'. Since we all celebrate birthdays then try and remember what the best gift was that you ever received for your birthday. Why was it so special, do you still have it and have you bought something similar for someone else?
接下来,我们上 "生日" 这个单元. 每个人每年都会过生日. 你过生日时,收到最特别的礼物是什么? 是谁送的?
You can read the article below to give you some ideas.

Please respond by the end of Wednesday this week.
You can try  use the grammar points:

1.  一....就......    as soon as         我一看到这个礼物,就非常喜欢.
2.  对 ---来说     to someone,        对我来说,这是我收到最好的生日礼物.
3.  ...的时候,       when                 我十五岁生日的时候, 我爸爸给我买了一台电脑.
4.  收到              received             我收到很多礼物.

PS : 图片来自跟我学汉语

我的感恩节日记

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving day. Please summarize your Thanksgiving holiday in about 150 characters. Follow the format that I have attached below, which will help you construct your work. Make sure you provide some detail about what you did, what you ate and so on.
* Don't forget to post your response to" who or what are you thankful for?"
                    
十一月 二十六日        星期四     天气晴     BY Cindy   

   今年我过了一个很难忘的感恩节。这个感恩节我跟我的家人一起过。因为我不用上学所以我很晚才起床。我下午十二点才起床。我起床以后看到我妈妈不在家。我打电话给她的时候, 她说她在买东西。

   她回家以后从下午两点到晚上七点在厨房做一个感恩节大餐。我跟我两个姐姐也帮她做饭.我们七点半才吃晚饭.我们的感恩节大餐有火鸡,玉米，马铃薯,青菜和牛肉.我们一边吃晚饭一边聊天.吃完饭以后,我们一边吃水果一边看电视.我们在看一个连续剧叫“富貴門”.我觉得这个感恩节过得很开心。      

感恩节感言:这个感恩节,我最感谢我的家人和我的朋友.我感谢我的爸爸和妈妈,因为他们养了我这么大,很辛苦.我还想感谢我两个姐姐,因为她们很(支持)support我。我也想感谢我的朋友,因为她们常常都帮我,因为有他们,所以我每一天都过得很开心.

感恩节,你最感谢谁?

Over the holiday weekend, have a think about who or what you are thankful for this year. Write one or two paragraphs in Chinese about your thoughts so we can discuss next week when school starts again.

This is a picture of a Thanksgiving dinner that I found on Google.Have a nice break!

感恩节来了,你最想感谢谁?为什么?他们为你做了什么?把你的感想写下来.下星期一上课时一起讨论.

感恩节快乐!

比较感恩节和中秋节

First thing... wonderful menus and shopping lists! I enjoy reading it.
首先shǒu​xiān,你们的感恩节购物单和菜单,棒极了!( bàng​jí​le Excellent)

OK, we have studied the mid-autumn festival中秋节 (remember the story of the Moon Lady Chang-e嫦娥 and moon cakes, right?) and we have just finished studying Thanksgiving with the story about the Indians.
So, today's homework is to compare the two holiday festivals and write down what you think is similar and different between the two. For example:

中秋节是农历 (nóng​lì)八月十五日, 感恩节是十一月的第四个星期四,时间不一样

中秋节的故事是嫦娥Cháng​’é 飞到月亮,变成(biàn​chéng)月姑娘 (gū​niang)

感恩节是英国人来到美国,印地安人帮住他们种玉米马铃薯,让英国人的生活变好

还有过中秋节的时候,中国人吃月饼,过感恩节的时候,美国人吃火鸡.

adjective + 极了(jí​le) extremely / exceedingly 

1. 棒极了    super / excellent
2. 开心极了  to have a great time
3. 漂亮极了  extremely pretty
   

图片来源:中文百宝箱

It's Turkey time - so let's get shopping! 感恩节购物单

We've leaned the characters we need for Thanksgiving, so now let's first put together a shopping list for our Thanksgiving dinner.


The characters are shown in the turkeys feathers, so write them correctly in the shopping list.


Add any things that you would like to eat to the list.
You can check the food items on  chapter 11.


Create a dinner menu which shows the first course, main course and desert.


Please have this ready for our lesson on Tuesday.


购物单-shopping list
菜单- menu
名单- name list
帐单zhàng​dān- Check  or  bill

图片来源:中文百宝箱

My favorite channel is CSPAN. Not really! What's yours?你最喜欢看什么电视节目?

今天在课堂上,我们学习了怎样读中文电视台的节目表,还回答了课本的练习题,很有意思.今天的作业是读下面的文章,然后,写一篇小短文描述"你和你的家人最喜欢看的电视节目". 短文请用我们教过的语法, 比如: 

1. 常常 often 
   
2. 从--- 到----,  from-- to--
   
3. 最喜欢的....  favorite
   
4. 有时候--- 有时候, sometimes,-- sometimes
5. 除了.. 还 not only.. but also
6. 每----- 都...... every.... all
   

周末快乐!  Have a nice weekend!

*  生词:

1.   新聞报导  xīnwénbàodǎo​​ news report    
2.    天气预报  tiānqìyùbào​​​ weather forecast   
3.   比赛  bǐsài​  competition          纪录片 jìlùpiàn​​documentary   
   
4.   电视剧   TV series                   连续剧liánxùjù​​ drama    
5.   教育节目j iàoyù jiémù​​ educational program

Ps: 選讀文章來自: 快樂漢語,第二冊第19課

I'm really, really, really busy at school these days ..... 我忙死了

This is what we covered today in Class about the grammar structure for 

expressing an extreme situation. Usually, Chinese people don't like to 

use word associated with "death" but in these cases they do. 

今天在课堂上,我们学习了"形容词+死了" 这个语法.一般来说,( In general) 
中国人不喜欢用跟"死"有关的词 ,但是在这个句型 " 形容词+  死了"例外. 

这个句型,也可以 用"  动词+  死了"  For example:

昨天我帮邻居看小孩, 一个三岁, 一个五岁. 他们太调皮搗蛋, 我真是 烦死了!

Please describe an event that requires you to use this grammar  structure.

What is the difference between this International Student's life and your own life?

We have been studying the unit for "School life" for the past two weeks. We covered every day activities and school subjects such as History, English, Math and so on. We also learned how to describe the activity in our daily lives.


Read the article about an international student in China and write down three things that are either the same or different from your daily activities. Use the grammar points as follows:

1. 每(měi)…… 都(dōu)……
2. 一边(yì biān)……一边(yì biān)……
3. 除了(chú le)……还(hái)……
4. 有时候,,,,,,  有时候
5.  ----以后
6. 或者  ( either, or)

Please try posting your homework as a reply to this message! If you can't type Chinese on your computer then please write it out and bring it to school .

PS:Reading material : Chapter 8 ,Hanyu Jingdu Keben

Hello, class

Hi there FM3HF!

I have created this blog to help you with your Chinese work. Feel free to add comments on the material, subject or anything else. I plan to upload two or three articles each week for you to read and respond to which I hope will help you with a better understand the class content and your Chinese typing skills. Having an ability to type in Chinese will become important in the future.


Each week I hope to select one or two of the best articles from the class and publish them here.

Ms Dean