Assignments

The first two weeks of the course are referred to as "Transition." During these weeks the students review what they learned in 21G.102. Below is detailed information about what is covered during Transition.

Also see the daily homework assigned for the course.

Transition

In order to effect a smooth transition from first to second year, and from one type of materials to another, excerpts from the beginning course (complete with exercises) will be made available on the Stellar site for review and elaboration. Although it covers (mostly) familiar territory (words, grammar, usage), and even though it is labeled with what sound like very early lesson numbers (as low as 3, in fact) the material which you will be working with is almost all novel (beginning with the dialogues) - even for students who took 101/102 last year. You can of course, skim right through the lessons (and do a complete review of each with flashcube), but you are only being asked to focus on the following parts.

Notes:

These lessons are numbered consecutively, so that each page is unique.

FlashCube allows dialogue material to be downloaded separately.

Exercises are for your own use – do them and note difficulties.

In the lists below, sections skipped are intentionally skipped (because we judge them to be already familiar to you – but you may want to skim them to be sure).

Unit I:

Lesson 3 (PDF)

Section B: Dialogue, pages 65-6

Section C: Analysis section 5 (location, with exercise); 6 (scores, with ex.)

Unit II:

Lesson 4 (PDF)

Section A: Transitions, pages 89-92: section 1 (adverbs with ex.); 2 (years and age with ex.)

Section B: Dialogue, page 95-7 (biographical questions)

Section C: Analysis, pages 98-107: sections 2 (xiang vs xiang); 3 (position of zai-phrases); 4 (the shi…de pattern, with ex.); 5 (Verb+guo, with ex.); 7 (shang and xia); 8 (wanr, with ex.)

Unit III:

Lesson 5 (PDF)

Section A: Transitions, pages 122-26: section 1 (connecting sentences with ex.); 2 (Counting); 3 (How many?); 4 (time words); 5 (when); 7 (must and ought)

Section B: Dialogue on weather and seasons, pages 128-9

Section C: Analysis, pages 130-7: section 1 (you dianr SV); 2 (the seasons); 3 (you…you); 4 (bijiao); 5 (weather); 6 (future events); 7 (more on DE); 8 (when in doubt)

UNIT IV:

Lesson 6

Section A: Transitions, pages 145-55: section a (clock time); 2 (money revisited); 4 (remembering and forgetting)

Section B: Dialogues pages 158-64: 1 (some do, some don’t); 2 (what’ll you have); 3 (Chinese regional languages)

Analysis page 175-77: section 7 only (DE revisited, with ex.)

UNIT V:

Lesson 7

Section A: Transitions, pages 183-5 and 187-8: section 1 (time periods as M or N); 2 (Question words); 4 (negative questions); 5 (inclusion, with ex); 6 (or, with ex.)

Section B: Dialogues, pages 191-4: 1 (family); 2 (interviewing teacher)

Section C: Analysis, pages 194-200: section 1 (duration); 2 (more functions of le); 3 (age); 4 (duo and ji); 5 (more on shi…de); 6 (chule…yiwai); 7 (dui…you xingqu)

Section D: Narrative, pages 201-4 (regional languages; the new and the traditional)

Daily Homework