Term 2 Week 4 (Wednesday) “送了......给......" (“Sòngle...... Gěi......") Give...to

Welcome to week 4. Today we focus on more sentences. Some key words we learnt today are:

送 / 送了 (Sòng / Sòngle) Give

给 (Gěi) To

Our sentences are:

(Person) 送了 (object) 给 (gift receiver). For example 姐姐送了一个书包给我 (Jiějiě sòngle yīgè shūbāo gěi wǒ) My sister give me a bag. In this example, the person is 姐姐 (sister), the gift is 一个书包 (a school bag) and the gift receiver is 我 (me)

• 哥哥送了巧克力给我 (Gēgē sòngle qiǎokèlì gěi wǒ) my brother give me some chocolate
• 妈妈送了新外套给爸爸 (Māmā sòngle xīn wàitào gěi bàba) Mom give dad a new jacket.

We also learn the alternative sentence pattern which carries the same meaning. Example are:

• 哥哥送我巧克力 In this case, the gift receiver have been moved forward straight after "give". 哥哥 is the giver, 我 is the gift receiver and 巧克力 is the gift.
• 妈妈送爸爸 新外套 - 妈妈 is the giver, 爸爸 is the gift receiver and 新外套 is the gift.

Term 2 Week 3 (Wednesday) 我参加音乐 Wǒ cānjiā yīnyuè I took part in music

Our sentence focus this week are:

• 我参加音乐 (Wǒ cānjiā yīnyuè) I participate in music
• 你参加了什么? (Nǐ cānjiāle shénme?) What activities do you take part in?
• 我参加音乐，也参加运动 (Wǒ cānjiā yīnyuè, yě cānjiā yùndòng) I take part in music and also sports
• Tony 和我都想参加网球队 (Tony hé wǒ dū xiǎng cānjiā wǎng qiú duì) Tony and I both want want to take part in tennis

You can practice these sentences HERE.

Term 2 Week 2 (Wednesday) 学校活动 School Activities Cont

Well is hard to come back after a long weekend, the children certainly thrill to have a short week this week.

We made some great progress in learning today and I can certainly see the improvement for those of you who has been using the CD so keep up the good work. The new words today are:

休息 - Rest

參加 - To participate

乐队 - school band

活动 - Activities

想 - thinking of...wish

得 - have to

You can practice to read along here.

Homework this week is item 7 page 17 in the work book, have fun writing those characters!

Term 2 Week 1 (Wednesday) Welcome Back!

Ni Hao! 你 好! Welcome back to the start of term 2. I believe all of you have had a lovely holiday over the term break and is eager to learn again. We shared some lovely stories on what we have done over the holiday and the children sure have lots to tell. We will continue to discuss our last term topic - school / After School Activities (学校活动) and the associated language focus.

Today we practice a lovely song 媽媽的眼睛 for Mothers Day, click on the link to sing along, You can also find the lyrics here. 

Finally, a quick reminder on drawing competition - last chance to hand it in this week before Saturday 2 May. Good luck!

                       

Week 8 (Wednesday) 学校活动 School Activities

We all lead a very busy life, in particular our children, who have a series of after school activities everyday. This week we looked at some of the popular activities such as Piano lesson, football, ballet, taekwondo, Mandarin lesson, swimming etc. Here are the list of activities we practiced today:

学中文 (Xué Zhōngwén) -   Mandarin lesson

学吉他 (Xué jítā) - learn guitar

游泳 (Yóuyǒng) - Swimming

跆拳道 (Táiquándào) - Taekwondo

篮球 (Lánqiú) - basketball

体操 (Tǐcāo) - gymnastics

学钢琴 (Xué gāngqín) - Piano lesson

足球 (Zúqiú_ - football

学芭蕾舞 (bālěi wǔ) - ballet 

Please complete the worksheet here. Some of you might have completed during class so please remember to bring it back this week.

The sentence structure of the week is 下课后，我得... (xià kè hòu , wǒ Déi...)

下课后，我得学中文 (xià kè hòu , wǒ déi Xué Zhōngwén) - After school, I have Mandarin lesson.

Homework for the week is the passage on page 17 of text book. You can practice all the new words in the reading set here.

Have a lovely week!