CHN 201 § Homework for Week Five. Homework shown on Day X is to be done that evening.
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IC T Integrated Chinese, Textbook IC W Integrated Chinese, Workbook

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Day Date Homework
Mon 9/22 § Read IC T Lesson 19 Dialogue I (p. 123. Don't forget your study strategy (if you like this way):
  • read the English version; then the Pinyin texts (guessing vocabulary), circling things you don't know; check vocabulary list if necessary; and finally, read the Hanzi versions.

§ Prepare to role-play a postal clerk in a US post office serving Mandarin speakers. What questions will you want to ask your customers based on what you see in the dialogue? Topics: mailing options and prices, speed of different options, stamp prices.
Tues 9/23 § Read IC T Lesson 19 Dialogues II (p. 125) and III (p. 126).

§ TO HAND IN: IC T Lesson 19 III (Reading comprehension) Section Two (start p. 67), IV (Writing/Grammar) Section One A, B, C.
Wed 9/24 § TO HAND IN: IC T Lesson 19 IV (Writing/Grammar) Section One D, E, F, G.
Thurs 9/25 § TO HAND IN: IC T Lesson 19 IV Section One H; Section Two A, B.
Weekend
 9/26-28 § Prepare for a quiz on Lesson 19. Listening/speaking: find out prices and number of days for various postal services (packages, letters, surface mail, air mail, registered). Writing Hanzi: based on the final two situational writings in IC W L19 (asking the friend from Taiwan about Taiwan postal services, and answering the friend from Taiwan about US postal services). Reading: cloze test based on lesson texts. Writing: based on IC W L19 IV Section Two. Situational language use: based heavily on IC W L19 IV Sec One Letter H (the translation questions).

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