Mandarin Lessons

for UOB Kay Hian

B Y
By Yang F
Fang
May 2010

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Lesson 1

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 Activities
• Introduction
• Cl
Classroom language
l
• Structure of Chinese language
• Do greeting

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 Self-introduction
• Chinese, Singapore PR
• N religion
No li i
• B.Eng Degree from NUS
• A primary Chinese teacher
• To be filled
f ll d up……

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Introduction of yourself
• Name
• Country
C t
• Hobbies

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 Classroom language
• dD jiA hCo! • Hello, everyone.
• hC de.
hCo d • OK.
• shDng kS. • Let’ss begin the class.
Let
• xiD kS. • The class is over.
• wM shuK, nH • I’ll speak, you listen.
g
mPn tFng.
• kDn bBi bCn. • Look at the whiteboard
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 Cl
Classroom llanguage
• duII bu duI?
I • Is it right?
• duI! • Right! Correct!
• hRn hCo! • Very good!
• qHng gPn wM shuK • Please repeat after me.
• zDi shuK yG biDn • Say it again
• dMng bX dMng? • Do you understand?
• dMng le • Yes, I do.
• zDi jiDn • Good bye!
Good-bye!
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 Structure of Chinese
language
• Consist of three parts
– Four
F tones
t (shPng
( hP diDo)
diD )
– Phonetic symbols (pFn yFn)
– Chinese characters (hDn zI)

hC
hCo
好
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 Four tones
1. Flat tone: “-”
2 Rising
2. Ri i ttone: “/”
3. Falling and rising tone
tone: “V
V“
4. Falling tone:“\”
For example:l

A B C D
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 Basic vowels
a [a]
•a •ii [i]
•o [o] •u [u]
[ ]
•e [γ] •| [y]

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HANYU PINYIN PRACTICE
TIME
A B C D K L M N P Q R S
bA bB bC bD pK
K pL
L pM
M pN
N dP dQ dR dS

F G H I U V W X Z ^ _ `
mF mG mH mI tU tV tW tX nZ n^ n_ n`

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Do greeting

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dI yF kS：
kS ：nH hCo ma
第 一 课 你 好 吗
topic 1: How Are You

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Listening to the dialogue

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bX lBng xiAn shPng: nH hCo.
((Mr. Brown))

wBng xiCo jiR: nH hCo.

(Miss Wang)

bX lBng xiAn shPng : nH hCo ma？

g xiCo jjiR :
wBng wM hRn hCo,, xiS xie nH..

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Fun with
Vocabulary &
Sentences

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Sentence 1

nH hCo.
hCo

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 (1) nH ; nH men
nH (You)
- Repeat
R t after
ft tteacher
h

nH men (All of you)

- Repeat after teacher

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 (2) tA ; tA men
tA (He)
Repeat after teacher
-Repeat

tA men (They)
Repeat after teacher
-Repeat

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 (3) wM ; wM men
wM (I)
-Repeat
R t after
ft tteacher
h

wM men (We)
-Repeat after teacher

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 (4) hCo
hCo (Fine)
-Repeat after teacher

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TOGETHER:

nH hCo.
hCo

How do you do?

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Sentence 2:
nH hCo ma？

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 (1) nH hCo ma

nH hCo ma？(How are you?)

-Repeat after teacher

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TOGETHER:

nH hCo ma？

How are you?

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Sentence 3
wM hRn hCo,
xiS xie nH.

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 (1) wM hRn hCo
wM (I)
-Repeat after teacher

hCo (Very
hRn hC
hR (V well)
ll)
-Repeat after teacher

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 (2) xiS xie nH
xiS xie ((Thank y
you))
-Repeat after teacher

xiS xie nH (Thank you)

-Repeat
Repeat after teacher

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TOGETHER:

wM hRn hCo,
hCo xiS xie nH.
nH

I am fine. Thank you.

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 Activity :
Everyone reads together
bX lBng xiAn shPng : nH hCo.

g xiCo jjiR : nH hCo.

wBng

bX lBng xiAn shPng : nH hCo ma？

wBng xiCo jiR : wM hRn hCo,

hCo xiS xie nH.
nH

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 Checklist
nH ; nH men
tA ; tA men
wM ; wM men
nH hCo ma
wM hRn hCo
xiS xie nH

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 Reference
1. Jin nailu, Song yankun, Hao jie, “Chinese
for everyone”,
e er one” Pelanduk
Peland k publication
p blication (M)
Sdn.Bhd. 2002.
2. “Integrated Chinese”, www.cheng-
tsui.com.

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