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Lesson 5-1 Study Guide
Visiting a Friend's Home
Visiting a Friend's Home
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Dialogue:
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Objectives:
- Welcome a visitor.
- Introduce one person to another.
- Compliment someone on his/her house.
- Ask for beverages as a guest at someone else’s place.
- Offer beverages to a visitor.
- Briefly describe a visit to a friend’s place.
- Learn the pinyin and correct stroke order for the 25 characters introduced in lesson 5-1.
- Learn the new vocabulary introduced in lesson 5-1. You can practice with the online Table Building Activity.
New Vocabulary
| Chinese | Pinyin | English | |
| 呀 | ya | (interjectory particle used to soften a question) | |
| 进 | jìn | to enter | |
| 快 | kuài | fast, quick; quickly | |
| 进来 | jìn lái | to come in | |
| 来 | lái | to come | |
| 介绍 | jièshào | to introduce | |
| 一下 | yí xià | once; a bit | |
| 高兴 | gāoxìng | happy, pleased | |
| 漂亮 | piàoliang | pretty | |
| 坐 | zuò | to sit | |
| 在 | zài | at; in; on | |
| 哪儿 | nǎr | where | |
| 学校 | xuéxiào | school | |
| 喝 | hē | to drink | |
| 点儿 | diǎn(r) | a little, a bit; some | |
| 茶 | chá | tea | |
| 咖啡 | kāfēi | coffee | |
| 吧 | ba | (a sentence-final particle) | |
| 要 | yào | to want | |
| 瓶 | píng | (measure word for bottle of something); bottle | |
| 可乐 | kělè | Coke; Pepsi; cola | |
| 可以 | kěyǐ | can; may | |
| 对不起 | duìbuqǐ | sorry | |
| 给 | gěi | to give | |
| 杯 | bēi | (measure word for a cup or glass of something) | |
| 水 | shuǐ | water | |
| 高小音 | gāo xiǎoyīn | (a personal name) |