Study Guides

Lesson 7-1 Study Guide
How Did You Do on the Exam?
复写慢枝笔张纸教懂真里预第语法容易词汉难

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Dialogue:
(王朋跟李友说话)
WP
: 李友,你上个星期考试考得怎么样?
LY
: 因为你帮我复习,所以考得不错。但是我写中国字写得太慢了!
WP
: 是吗?以后我跟你一起练习写字,好不好?
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Objectives:
  • Comment on one's performance on an exam.
  • Comment on one's character writing.
  • Talk about one's experience in learning Chinese vocabulary and grammar.
  • Talk about one's study habits.
  • Remark on typical scenes from a language class.
  • Learn the pinyin and correct stroke order for the 20 characters introduced in lesson 7-1.
  • Learn the new vocabulary introduced in lesson 7-1. You can practice with the online Table Building Activity.
New Vocabulary
 Chinese Pinyin English
说话 shuō huà to talk 
话 huà word; speech 
上个 shàng ge the previous one; the last one 
得 de (a structural particle) 
复习 fùxí to review 
写 xiě to write 
字 zì character 
慢 màn slow 
枝 zhī (measure word for long, thin, inflexible objects like pens, rifles, etc.) 
笔 bǐ pen 
张 zhāng (measure word for flat objects like paper, pictures, etc.) 
纸 zhǐ paper 
教 jiāo to teach 
怎么 zěnme how; how come 
懂 dǒng to understand 
真 zhēn really 
哪里 nǎli where 
预习 yùxí to preview 
学 xué to study; to learn 
第 dì (prefix for ordinal numbers) 
语法 yǔfǎ grammar 
容易 róngyì easy 
生词 shēngcí new words; vocabulary 
多 duō many; much 
汉字 hànzì Chinese characters 
难 nán difficult