Friday, February 3, 2012

How Many Provinces are in China?

How Many Provinces are in China?
- Cameron Meeks

Answer:

Can you name all the provinces???
*Hint: Èr shí sān 二十

Friday, January 27, 2012

Test how much you know about Chinese New Year

Da jia hao 大家好.
Please go to this web link to test your knowledge of Chinese New Year.
Laoshi 老师 did it, but I only got 6 out of 10. Unbelievable!!!
http://local.cincinnati.com/quiz/quiz.aspx?qid=151

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

chinese characters

Chinese characters for week 4

huo=fire=


Le=particle for past tense =

Bu=No=

WEEK 5

Nan=boy= 男


Week 10 
leng3: cold 冷
Re4: hot 热
Feng1: wind 风 


Week 11 
shang4 wu3: morning 上午 
zhong1 wu3: noon 中午
xia4 wu3: afternoon 


Week 13 
yun2: cloud 云



Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Build our classroom norms

Please click this link to go the page for building classroom norms 1B 2012.
Once it's completed, I will print it out and post it on the wall.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VlIz7lelkSJzM8UGwC9JIlFdcgmRtH2USlWoVaSRfLU/edit

Monday, January 9, 2012

Project 1 2012 List of Chinese surnames

This is going to be our first project in the new semester, finding us a Chinese name!
 Our FIRST task is to choose a Chinese family name that is close to our English family name, if possible.
By being close I mean, the Chinese family name we choose sounds similar to at least  one of the syllables in our English names.

Here are all the commonly used Chinese surnames found on wikipedia for you reference.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Family_Surnames

The second stage is to find yourself a first name. There are no set first names in Chinese, so you have to find characters you like and  create your own. If you find website useful for creating first names. Please share it with everyone here.
1. Common names for girls: http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/language/zh-CN/learn/chinese/My-Community/article/tabid/385/id/705/columnid/15/Learning-Chinese/Chinese-Name-Chinese-Girl-names-and-meanings/Default.aspx
2, Common names for boys: http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/language/zh-CN/learn/chinese/My-Community/article/tabid/385/id/706/columnid/15/Learning-Chinese/Chinese-Name-Chinese-Boy-names-and-meanings/Default.aspx