AP Chinese Summer Assignment

Cannon School

Instructor: Lirong Wang

2015. 05. 08 The AP Chinese summer assignment 2015 is to develop your four- skill Mandarin Chinese proficiency. It is to have you practice your speaking, listening, writing sentences and reading. All are completed through the online lessons, except the reading. There are some reading documents that have already been inserted in the paper, also 3 suggesting reading books for your reference. They are to help you to learn about Chinese family culture/values, the relationship among the family members, the gap among the generations, and the culture conflicts/shocks that Chinese people faced as new immigrants in the western world. The book reading assignment is “OPTIONAL.” However, for listening and speaking and writing assignments, you must keep a journal in your e-portfolio. First, you need to

(1) Use one week to review the vocabulary and grammar in Chinese I-Chinese IV Textbooks.

(2) Create a file in your e-portfolio name “Summer Assignment 2015” (3) Create sub file

– listening speaking reading writing Example: Summer Assignment 2015 暑假作业／功课

- listening 听 - speaking 说 - reading 读（dú）

- writing 写

As for the AP speaking prompts, they are only for your reference. You DO

NOT need to keep a journal on the speaking prompts but need to write a

reflection on “How to prepare for AP in Chinese speaking test?” You need to put

your reflection into your “speaking file” in your e-portfolio.

Detailed Instructions with Examples - Online Lessons Listening and Culture Please go to the following websites to practice your listening 1. Confucius Institute Online

http://learning.chinese.cn/cn/node_14243.htm 2. ZapChinese

http://www.zapchinese.com/ 3. http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/topics/topics.html 4. http://sina.echineselearning.com/english/contents/chinese-culture/index.html 5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/work/activity.shtml#top

6. http://chinese.yabla.com/?gclid=CPXd4-GVgK4CFYPc4Aodm2um3w 7. http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/15/practice.htm Note: You need to keep a journal for the website you visit to practice your listening, 3 times per lesson and one lesson per day. What you need to put into your e-portfolio for listening practice? You need to write down the date, the name of the online lesson, the name of the Chinese website and its link, copy and paste the dialogue or the paragraph you listen to. Please see the following example: 6/13 Zapchinese http://www.zapchinese.com/Chinese-

phrases/Shopping/Shopping.htm Lesson Shopping 1. 这 个要多少钱 ?

zhe4 ge4 yao4 duo1 shao3 qian2 How much is this?

2. 哪里是 试 穿间 ? na2 li3 shi4 shi4 chuan1 jian1 Where is the fitting room?

3. 能不能便宜一些?

neng2 bu4 neng2 pian2 yi4 yi4 xie1 Is there any discount?

4. 能卡用信用卡吗 ? neng2 yong4 xing4 yong4 ka3 ma1 Do you accept credit cards?

5. 你有大一号的吗? / 你有小一号的吗? ni2 you3 da4 yi1 hao4 de ma1? ni2 you3 xia3 yi1 hao4 de ma1?

Do you have a larger size? / Do you have a smaller size? 6. 能不能包装成礼品?

neng2 bu4 neng2 bao1 zhuang1 cheng2 li2 pin3 Can you wrap it as gift?

7. 这双鞋太紧 了. zhe4 shuang1 xie2 tai4 jin3 le These shoes are tight.

8. 这件衣适服不合 , 还有没有别 的?

Zhe4 jian4 yi1 fu1 bu4 he2 shi4, hai2 you3 mei2 you3 bie2 de This clothing did not fit well, do you have another one?

9. 一共多少钱? Yi2 gong4 duo1 shao3 qian2? What is my total?

Note: If your e-portfolio page cannot let you copy and paste the exact characters

or the exact sentences from the online lesson but showing you “ ” , please erase

“ ” and type out the correct character according to the online lesson. For

example, you need to erase “ ” and replace it with “这” in the sentence “ 双鞋 太

紧了.” If you see “ ” after you made a copy and pasted the dialogue into your e-

portfolio page. The correct sentence in the lesson should be “这双鞋太紧了.”

(pinyin- zhè shuāng xié tài jĭn le, English meaning-These shoes are tight.)

Speaking prompts (THIS IS JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE ABOUT THE

AP SPEAKING TEXT. IT IS OPTIONAL. ) AP test speaking examples

http://sitesearch.collegeboard.org/?searchType=site&q=ap+chinese+speaking&x

=0&y=0 You DO NOT need to keep a journal on the speaking prompts but to write a

reflection on “How to prepare for AP in Chinese speaking test?” You need to

put your reflection into your “speaking file” in your e-portfolio. Learn 10 new vocabularies per day. Keep the journal in your e-portfolio Vocabulary http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/vocabulary/ Example: Journal in your E-portfolio READING- Date: 6/13 New words/new phrase 新字／新词 List of new words 单字表 1. 绵羊 mianyang (sheep) 2. 小猪 xiaozhu (piggy) Continue to ten new words or phrases. Writing You need to keep a journal and write down the website you visit, the lesson you learn, the date you visit, and the new words/phrases you learn from the lesson. All has to be in both Chinese and English. Also, you need to use the phrases to make a sentence. You only have to choose five phrases to make five sentences per day. You can choose any phrases from any lesson that you study

that day from speaking, listening and/or vocabulary online lessons. You need to keep your journal in your e-portfolio. Please see the example for Journal in E-portfolio. When we return to school next year, we will open your e-portfolio in class to use your sentences to develop different paragraph writings such as writing out a short story individually or to work as a group to develop a story. Example: Journal In E-portfolio (You need to keep the record in your e-portfolio with the information as the following example) Example: Summer Assignment 2014 暑假作业／功课

- writing 写 6/13 Confucius Institute Online Name of the Lesson: 五块钱（wúkuàiqián）Five Dollars New phrase- 新词 (1) 洗碗 (xĭwăn) do dishes (New sentence to the phrase “洗碗”) Chinese sentence: 现在让你练习洗碗，以帮太后太可的以忙。 (Please underline the new phrase) English meaning: I let you do the dishes now, so you can help your wife to do

dishes in the future.

Culture Study The goal of Summer Cultural Study Assignments for upcoming AP Chinese students is to utilize learned language to describe or report cultural observations.

1. Watch 3 movies from the list below and answer the following questions by typing:

a. 故事发生在什么年代？什么国家？什么地方？

When does the story happen? What country? What region?

b. 主人公叫什么名字？

What are the main characters’ names?

c. 请讲一讲故事的梗概。

Tell the story briefly.

d. 这是什么类型的电影？这是戏剧还是悲剧？是浪漫还是武打片？

e. What kind of story is it? Is it comedy or drama? Is it romantic story or Kungfu Movie?

f. 这个电影里有哪些与美国文化不同的中国文化？举出五个不一样的地方。

What cultural differences do you perceive? List 5 or more.

g. 你学到了什么有用的新词语？写出十个。

What new vocabulary or phrases do you learn from the movie? List at least 10.

电影：List of Movies (all movies listed are available on Netflex and Amazon)

饮食男女 Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

喜宴 The wedding Banquet

非诚勿扰 Only If You are Sincere

变脸王 King of Mask

和你在一起 Together

我的父亲母亲 My Father and Mother

为了孩子们 For the Children

一个不能少 Not One Less

电影 Electric Shadow

北京自行车 Beijing Bicycle

2. Complete the cultural readings and activities:

a. Inventions of ancient China: 四大发明

b. The First Emperor-Qi Shihuang 第一个皇帝—秦始皇

c. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 资源的再生、节约和回收

d. Story of the Silkworm 蚕丝的故事

e. Chinese tea etiquette 中国茶道

Use the following websites for more information on each topic: www.tudou.com www.baidu.com www.google.com

Suggested reading (OPTIONAL)

1. Joy Luck Club Writer- Amy Tan Please see the link for your reference:

http://www.neabigread.org/books/joyluckclub

2. Shanghai Girl by Vivian Yang http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-

review-shanghai-girl-by-vivian/ 3. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/11/132833376/tiger-mothers-raising-children-

the-chinese-way 4. You need to be ready to do a presentation on modern China when we return to

school next year. For your reference, you can pick up a topic from the following

website link. http://www.chinatoday.com/culture/a.htm Have a great summer! Enjoy your advanced Chinese summer study!