Lesson 1 Tape (worksheet)
#1 is an exercise that involves listening to a recording of speakers introducing themselves. Below is a list of names; as you listen to the recording one or more times, check off those that you hear:
Zhèng Yùnmíng Kāi Sìwéi Sūn Hǎimíng
Lǐ Yìlán Cài Měijié Wén Bīnjié
Guō Rénquán Chén Jiànlì Yóu Shìjié
Chóu Wěiyí Liú Měifèng Yè Zhàomǐn
Xú Bó Chén Yuánzhōng Rén Bèi
Yīn Shūpíng Chén Huìyíng Zhāng Yǔnqí
Guō Ruìjiā Fù Jiāyīng Yè Lìkāng
Liào Líshǔ Táo Chānglún Shěn Zìlíng
Zōu Xīn Liú Sījiā Lǐ Chuándé
#2 is a re-enactment, in careful, slow speech of the ‘goodbyes’ found in Lesson1. There are 5 short interchanges (a-e). Listen, rather than read.
#3 is another re-enaction of the short exchanges found in Lesson 1. There are 3 interchanges (a-c), then three more (a-c).
#4. You are now in a position to be able to answer some questions. Here’s your model:
Máng ma? positive Hěn máng. Máng bú máng? negative Bú tài máng. Máng ma? neutral Hái hǎo.
Now you try; extraneous or unexpected material in the answer shouldn’t bother you so long as you can detect the core response. There are 15 questions.
Lèi ma? negative Bú tài lèi. È bu è? positive Hěn è Kě ma? neutral Jǐnzhāng ma? negative etc. #5. Here’s a conversation with some new material in it. It involves a foreigner, Li Dan and a Chinese woman, Wang Ying.
After the conversation, you have a chance to practice welcoming people to various places: Huānyíng nǐ lái Běijīng. And Boston, Shanghai, New York etc.
#6 gives you a chance to listen to surnames in a greeting context. The surnames exemplify the three tones, the high, the rising and the falling. In this exercise you listen, in the next, you will have a chance to identify.
Zhāng lǎoshī, nín hǎo. / Hǎo, qǐng zuò. (‘Please sit down.’)
Wáng lǎoshī, nín hǎo. / Hǎo, qǐng zuò.
Zhào lǎoshī, nín hǎo. / Hǎo, qǐng zuò.
Zhōu lǎoshī, xièxie. / Hǎo, míngtiān jiàn.
Máo lǎoshī, xièxie. / Hǎo, míngtiān jiàn.
Dù lǎoshī, xièxie. / Hǎo, míngtiān jiàn.
Chén lǎoshī, zài jiàn. / Hǎo, zài jiàn, màn zǒu.
Wèi lǎoshī, zài jiàn. / Hǎo, míngtiān jiàn, màn zǒu.
Gāo lǎoshī, zài jiàn. / Hǎo, yìhuǐr jiàn, màn zǒu.
#7. Now you can try adding the tones to the surnames that occur in the greetings represented in pinyin transcription below. You only have to add a tonal mark to the surnames. (Answers are given at the end of the list.)
Liu laoshi Lin Měi Zhao lǎoshī
Zhang lǎoshī Wan Xiǎopíng Wang lǎoshī
Wang lǎoshī Sun Yǒnghuì Zhang lǎoshī
Sun Bó Du lǎoshī
Li Hóngměi Wang Huán
Zhang Dàmíng Yin Xiùměi
Wei lǎoshī Xiao lǎoshī
Answers: Liú, Zhāng, Wáng, Sūn, Lǐ, Zhāng Wèi, Lín, Wàn, Sūn, Dù, Wáng, Yīn, Xiāo, Zhào, Wáng, Zhāng,
#8. Pinyin. Listen to the sets of syllables representing some of the initials of Chinese. They are read first by Chén lǎoshī, then by Zhāng lǎoshī. To begin with, you can follow along to see how the sounds are represented. Once you are familiar with the material, try writing them out from dictation.
zi ci si zao cao sao zuo cuo suo
zhi chi shi ri zhou chou shou rou zhuo chuo shuo ruo
ji qi xi jian qian xian jie qie xie
And now the same initials followed only by the i-rhymes:
zi ci si zhi chi shi ri ji qi xi
#9: Listen and write the initial in the spaces provided below. At the end of this item, when Zhāng lǎoshī reads out the latter half of the list continuously, she changes the tones of one of the items (changing the meaning to ‘pencil’ as it turns out.) See if you can identify which item changes. If you are feeling really bold, you can try to write these words out from dictation – without looking below.
1. __ǒulù ‘walk’
2. __īqì ‘machine’
3. __uōzi ‘table’
4. __ǎocài ‘fried vegetables’
5. __áipàn ‘referee’
6. __iānbǐ ‘pencil’
7. __ōumò ‘weekend’
8. __uíbiàn ‘as you like’
9. __iàoshùn ‘filial piety’
10. __ūběn ‘books’
11. __iōngdì ‘brothers’
12. __iáoliáng ‘bridge’
13. __ìchǎng ‘market’
14. __ènshi ‘recognize’
15. __ànggē ‘to sing’
16. __iànzài ‘now’
17. __ǎofàn ‘breakfast’
18. __iéhūn ‘marry’
19. __īngshēng ‘the light tone’
20. __èsuǒr ‘toilet, lavatory’
Answers: zǒulù, jīqì, zhuōzi, chǎocài, cáipàn qiánbǐ, zhōumò, suíbiàn, xiàoshùn, shūběn xiōngdì, qiáoliáng, shìchǎng, rènshi, chànggē xiànzài, zǎofàn, jiéhūn, qīngshēng, cèsuǒr