CHN3021: Final Oral Exam

Daytime classes: Monday 12/10 of Week #15.

Evening classes: Tuesday 12/11 of Week #15.

Your final oral exam is as follows:

I. First, 2 or 3 students perform a skit.

1) Due to the time limit, please finish your skit within 2 min. - 3 min.

2) Your short skit could be on any appropriate and interesting topc, not necessarily those topics covered in your textbook.

3) Please evenly distribute the workload among the students.

4) Though performing as a group, students will be individually graded based on such criteria as use of more complex vocab and patterns, accuracy, fluency, and the "drama" factor.

II. After the skit, each student have a one-on-one interview with an instructor.

Though there're 5 groups of questions on the sheet, you are only required to answer 1 group of questions, which the instructor will randomly pick.

Please find your skit partner(s) asap and allow youselves enough time for preparation.

Should you have any questions, please ask me. Xiexie!

Liu laoshi

Minnesota-China Partnership

http://www.minnesota-china.com/

The Minnesota-China Partnership is a broad-based, statewide initiative to strengthen Minnesota's longstanding relationship with China. This collaborative venture engages public and private organizations throughout the state to promote all facets of Minnesota's connections with China, including trade and investment, science and academia, arts and culture, and friendship and humanitarian endeavors.


With the states leadership, the Minnesota-China Partnership encourages collaboration and coordination among a broad spectrum of partners to create exciting new opportunities for Minnesota and China.

The Minnesota-China Partnership has several objectives:

To promote greater understanding of U.S.-China relations.
To use the strength of existing relationships and develop new initiatives linking the people of Minnesota and China.
To raise Minnesota's profile among prominent Chinese government and business leaders.
To increase economic activity between Minnesota and China.
To provide extensive training programs and international business development activities to prepare Minnesota companies to conduct business successfully in China.
The Minnesota-China Partnership employs a multidimensional strategy that includes programs and services related to trade and investment, science and academia, arts and culture, and friendship and humanitarian endeavors.

Currently, the most robust programs are in the area of trade and investment. New programs and services for this and other strategic categories will be added over time.

给你介绍一本中文书

这是一本十分有意思的中文书。介绍了很多汉字的起源(origin)和在生活里的运用(application)。UMN的图书馆有这本书！


China: Empire of Living Symbols (Hardcover) by Cecilia Lindqvist (Author)



From Publishers Weekly (from www. Amazon.com)

http://www.amazon.com/China-Empire-Symbols-Cecilia-Lindqvist/dp/0201570092




Many of the 50,000 Chinese characters in use today can be traced back to ancient, inscribed oracle bones and bronzes. Drawing on archeological finds of recent decades, Lindqvist, a Swedish scholar who studied Chinese writing in Beijing, tells the fascinating stories behind the meaning and evolution of scores of Chinese characters. She notes that the original character for "hand" may well have been a picture of a hand with five fingers; neolithic jars were prototypes for the character for "wine"; the character for "speak or word" has a basic meaning, "large flute." Other characters relate to everyday life (houses, carts, clothes) or to the countryside, plants and animals. A testament to the continuity of Chinese culture, this beautiful book is illustrated with ancient inscriptions, 18th-century woodcuts and photographs of contemporary life demonstrating how ideogrammatic images recur as archetypes through the centuries.


Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.



Language NotesText: English (translation) Original Language: Swedish