III. METODOLOGÍA
3.2. Variable, operacionalización
Your friend is asking you about sports and exercise. Answer each question truthfully in a complete sentence in Mandarin, using Chinese characters where we have learned them.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
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8. Interview
You will hear an interview between a campus newspaper reporter and Zheng Ming, who just returned to Shanghai after studying English for a year in Los Angeles. Summarize Zheng Ming’s responses in English on the following three topics:
Summary
1. taking courses
2. campus life
3. studying
9. Dialogue
You will hear a conversation between Pan Li and Luo De, who have just met in a building on campus. The conversation contains a word we have not introduced, but you should be able to follow the conversation even if you do not know what this word means.
a. How do you get to the gym?
1) You take the elevator.
2) You just turn left.
3) You enter the gate.
4) You go up to the third floor.
b. Where can you play ping-pong?
1) You go into the room on the right.
2) You go down to the first floor.
3) You leave this building and go someplace else.
4) You go up one floor.
2) They will meet on Saturday to play ping-pong.
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Reading and writing
Focus on Chinese characters
1. Number of strokes
Indicate the number of strokes used in writing each of the following characters.
a. 或 ____ f. 怕 ____
b. 教 ____ g. 進 ____
c. 冷 ____ h. 自 ____
d. 玩 ____ i. 週 ____
e. 比 ____ j. 而 ____
2. Which character?
Circle the character in each line that corresponds to the meaning on the left.
a. huò (huòzhG or, perhaps) 或 國
b. jìn enter 近 進
c. wán play 完 玩
d. jiA add (cAnjiA participate) 加 咖 e. fAng (dìfang place) 房 方
f. shIu hand 手 毛
g. zì (zìjH self ) 白 自
h. ràng make, let, tell 讓 攘
i. pà fear, afraid 怕 伯
j. mò (zhDumò weekend) 末 木
k. bH compared to 北 比
l. ér and 而 兩
3. First strokes
Write the first two strokes of each of the following characters.
a. 而 ____ f. 且 ____
b. 教 ____ g. 手 ____
c. 者 ____ h. 末 ____
d. 冷 ____ i. 方 ____
e. 或 ____ j. 讓 ____
4. Missing strokes
Complete each character by writing in the missing strokes.
a. pà fear, afraid
b. wán play
c. bH compared to
d. jiA add (cAnjiA participate) e. huò (huòzhG) or, perhaps f. zì (zìxíngchG bicycle)
g. jiào teach
h. zhDu (zhDumò weekend)
i. lGng cold
j. jìn enter
5. Total strokes
Rewrite this list of characters, arranging the characters in terms of their total number of strokes. Begin your list with the character with the fewest strokes.
週 進 教 或 者 冷 自 手 怕 末 加 比 讓 方 玩 而 且
6. Radicals
Here is a list of characters that we have learned through this lesson. Rewrite each character in the row next to its radical.
進 冷 怕 讓 玩 放 選 慣 教 房 課 數 試 近 淨 現
冫 忄 訁 户 辶 攵 王
7. Character sleuth: Look for the phonetic
Group the characters below in terms of their rhymes or near-rhymes. Write the characters that rhyme with each other in the column on the right. Write the shared part of each character in the column on the left. For all of these characters, the shared part is the
“phonetic,” the part of the character that provides a clue to its pronunciation. The first set of rhymes is completed for you. There are thirteen additional sets of characters that rhyme or partially rhyme and share a phonetic component among these characters.
買 房 跟 哪 賣 完 媽 作 女 紅 爸 門 放 工 現 吧 把 功 很 間 們 方 問 國 嗎 玩 或 那 見 如 昨 馬
phonetic characters that rhyme or almost rhyme and share a phonetic component
女 如，女
8. Getting the gist of a paragraph
You won’t be able to completely understand the following passage, but you know enough characters and words to be able to identify the topic of the paragraph and some of the sup-porting details. Read the paragraph for the main ideas and answer the questions that follow in English. Do not look up any characters we have not learned.
學習中文和學習數學有相同的地方，也有不同的地方。相同的是要去上課、看書、
做功課。不同的是第一，學數學，懂了就可以了，你就可以做數學題了。學中文就 很不一樣。你可能懂了，但是你還是不會說。所以學中文的時候你要多聽錄音、多 練習說。第二，學數學的時候，你可以不用每天都去上課。週末多用一些時間自己 看看書，也可以懂。但是學中文每天都要去上課。一天不去上課你就不知道別的 同學在說甚麼了。
a. What is the general purpose of this paragraph?
b. What are the main expressions used in the paragraph that identify its purpose?
c. The author presents two facts to support one side of the argument. Which side of the argument do these facts support?
9. Dictionary skills
Following the instructions in Lesson 17 of the Textbook, look up these characters in a Chinese dictionary and provide the requested information.
a. 相
pronunciation:
meaning:
one two-character word or phrase in which it occurs:
b. 己
pronunciation:
meaning:
one two-character word or phrase in which it occurs:
c. 第
pronunciation:
meaning:
one two-character word or phrase in which it occurs:
10. Find the incorrect characters
Xiao Zhang has written this email to his parents back in the USA, telling them about his recent basketball game with Xiao Wang and Guoqiang. He hasn’t yet proofread this message, but when he does, he will find that eleven different characters are incorrect, several more than once. Read the passage aloud, circle the mistakes, and correct them on the answer sheet below.
巴巴媽媽你們好，
11. Scrambled sentences
Rewrite these phrases as sentences, putting the words in the correct order to match the English translations.
a. 得 / 我 / 高 / 王 / 老師 / 多 / 比 I’m a lot taller than Professor Wang.
b. 去 / 我們 / 個 / 吧 / 週末 / 玩 / 下 / 公園
Let’s go to the park and have some fun next weekend.
c. 外邊 / 很 / 有 /宿舍 / 自行車 / 的 / 多 There are a lot of bicycles outside of the dorm.
12. Comprehension
Read the following paragraph and indicate whether the statements below are true (T) or false (F), based on the information in the passage.
中文的“自行車”是“自 jH 走的車”的意思。“行”就是“走”。我剛來美國的時候，
看見可以過馬路的地方都有“Xing”這個字。我想可能是現在在美國學中文的人很
多，但是因為漢字很難寫，所以他們不寫漢字。或者是因為“Xing”很不容易說，所
以寫在馬路上，讓他們每天都看。
a. ( ) The narrator has just arrived in the USA.
b. ( ) The narrator thinks that few Americans study Chinese.
c. ( ) The narrator thinks that perhaps the character 行 is hard for Americans to write.
d. ( ) There is an overlap in meaning between the word 行 in Chinese and the use of“Xing”in English.
e. ( ) The narrator thinks that “Xing” means bicycles in English.