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Learn Pinyin

Eight Compound Finals

Root Words

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Chinese Radicals

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Language Lab Tongue Twisters

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Read After Me

SisterMom & Teacher

Follow me

DING DANG LAOSHIS CLASSROOM

Is She a Teacher?

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Start with "" sound, and then slide into "e" sound.e

Eight compound finals

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Start with "a" sound, and then slide to "i" sound.

Start with "e" sound, and then slide to "i" sound.

Start with "u" sound, and then slide into "i" sound.

Start with"a" sound, and then slide into "i" sound.

Start with "i" sound, and then slide into "u" sound.

ai

ei

ui

ao

ou

iu

Start with "o" sound, and then slide into "u" sound.

ie Start with "i" sound, and then slide into "e" sound.

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" a oeiu " are five good brothers

Lined up from a to u to be placed withtones

a is the fist, o the second; the third is

e, the fourth i; and, u is the last.

Big brother "a" always gets the tone

mark first ,

i i i i

o o o o

If there isn't an "a", let's find the

second brother "o",

u u u u

If there isn't an "o", try to find the

third brother " e",

i i i i

i i i i

The fourth is "i," the fifth is " u" ,

If i & u come together,

no matter who is senior,

whoever is at the end gets the tone.

i i i i

u u u u

Song of Pinyin (2) Rules for placing the tone marks

a oeiu

a o e i u

a

o

e

i

u

i i i i

o o o o

a

o o,

u u u u

o e

e,

i i i i

i i i i

i ,

u

i u

i i i i

u u u u

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Exercise

Articulation

1. Let's learn a few new Chinese

words

Short stature in Chinese is (i)

Love in Chinese is (i)

Meal choked in Chinese is (i)

Grandfather in Chinese is (i)Also in Chinese is (i)

Night in Chinese is (i)

Month in Chinese is ()

2. Complete the table by using what we just learned about theeight compound vowels :

Compound final

Pronunciation ofthe four tones

Start with the lip shaped to sound an "a", and

make it gradually become an "i" with mouth sha

ped in the process of changing hair "i" sound.

First shape your lips to pronounce an "e", and

let it gradually become for an "i".

Start with the lip shaped to pronounce a "u", and

make it gradually become for an "i".

Pronounce "a", and gradually glide towards "o".

Pronounce "o", and gradually glide towards "u".

Pronounce "i" first, and gradually glide towards "

u".

Pronounce "i" first, and gradually glide towards "

e".

Pronounce "", and gradually glide towards "e".

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Autumn & Day

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autumn-day

= the autumn

One-leaf-knows-autumn

=You may know the autumn is coming

by the falling of a single leaf.

middle-autumn-festival=

the mid-autumn festival

autumn-rain

=autumn rain

autumn

yesterday-day=yesterday

today-day=today

day tomorrow-day=tomorrow

day-day=every day

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Practice

1. Try to combine more words withtin:

Jn mng

today tomorrow

zu tin

yesterday everyday

qi chn

autumn spring

2. Complete the following sentences with the key words.

a) My birthday is tomorrow.

b) Do you drink milk everyday?

c) Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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A .

B .

SisterMom & Teacher

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sister

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my sister

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my sister and my mother

4)

My sister and my mother are both tall.

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mother

2

her mother

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her mother and her sister

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Her mother and her sister are both teachers.

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C .

D .

1

teacher

2

Teacher Bai

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Teacher Bai and Teacher Wang

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Teacher Bai and Teacher Wang are both Chinese teachers.

1)

pupil

2

college student

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college student and pupil

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I am a pupil and my brother is a college student .

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Is She a Teacher?

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Hi everyone

I am Yanchao, your tour guide (

) to China. In the following days, we will be travelling to

gether to different nice and interesting places in China. Also, we will try some delicious

Chinese food

and experience different customs

in different places. Hopefully this

will help you learn more about the country, its people and its culture so that in the future when you

travel, work or live in China you will find this country so familiar to you!

OK, now, our trip to China starts from Shaolin Temple(

)the kungfu lovers' Mecca!

Shaolin Temple and Chinese Kungfu

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Have you ever heard of Bruce Lee (

)? Do you know who Jackie

Chan(

) is? What does Jet Lee

do? What are they?

Before hitting the road to Shaolin Temple, answer the follow

ing questions, please.

Congratulations(

)! You are exactly correct! Yes, they are

all kungfu masters.

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If you know about these people so well, then, Shaolin Temple is another must-know!

In history, Shaolin Temple has been known as No. 1 Temple in the world. It is the Mecca for all the kungfu

(

) lovers from all over the world.

The temple is located in Songshan Mountain near the Dengfeng

City in Henan Province (

means South of the River

province), which is in the central part of China.

is the name of

the temple;

means temple.

Shaolin Temple has a long history of more than 1,500 years.

The temple was first built in A.D. 497 in Northern Wei Dynasty. At

that time it was built for a monk from India who came to spread

the Buddhist teachings in China. From this we know China had

started its cultural exchange more than 1,500 years before. The

temple's glory started from Tang Dynasty when thirteen warrior monks from this temple rescued the first Emperor

in Tang Dynasty. Then this temple got great financial support from the royal family. Later, it experienced many

ups-and-downs. Some of its buildings were burnt down during wars and were then rebuilt. The temple covers an

area of about 50 acres. It is now at its summit. In 2010 it was included on UNESCO's World Heritage list.

The whole temple is made up of several important parts. From the Main Entrance to the Hall of a Thousand

Buddhas, there are seven grand yards. Besides, there is a Pagoda Forest to the west. Today we will mainly visit

the Main Entrance, the Hall of a Thousand Buddhas and the Pagoda Forest.

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The Main Entrance

The whole temple is north of the river. The Main Entrance

faces south, with the characters

hanging above the en

trance. These characters were written by Kangxi, the second emperor in Qing Dynasty. There are two stone lions before the Main

Entrance. In Chinese culture, stone lions are believed to have

powerful mythic protective powers. They have traditionally stood

in front of imperial palaces, imperial tombs, governmental build

ings, temples, and the homes of government officials and the

wealthy. Even now pairs of stone lions are still common decora

tive and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels,

supermarkets and other structures, with one sitting on either sideof the entrance, in China and in other places around the world

where the Chinese people have immigrated and settled. If you go

to Chinatowns in the US, you can still see stone lions there. The

lions are always created in pairs. The one playing with a ball is a

male lion and the one with a cub is a female lion.

The Training Hall

The Training Hall is also called the Hall of a

Thousand Buddhas because there are paintings of five

hundred different Buddhas. This is where the warrior

monks used to secretly practice Shaolin Kungfu. Here

you can see depressions in the cobbled floor left from

monks training over hundreds of years.

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The Pagoda Forest

West of the temple, there are over 250

pagodas. These pagodas together look like a

forest and thus this place got its current name

Pagoda Forest. Each pagoda has a story under

it. Under each pagoda is the urn that contains

the bone ash of a monk. Only the monks who

deserve all their peers' respect can be treated

this way in the temple. So, this is really a great

honor! Of these pagodas, each is different from

another. They were built in different times in

history. Some are already more than 1,000 years old. They are not onlypagodas for the dead, but also valuable treasures for studying history, ar

chitecture and culture in different times.

Every year thousands of people from every corner of the world

Europe, Africa, South America, North America and Asia, come to visit

Shaolin Temple. They come not to become a monk, but are attracted by

the ancient Buddhist buildings and the Shaolin culture. Some of them be

come students and live here for years, learning the Shaolin Kungfu. In

March 2006 Vladimir Putin, the then-President of Russia, became thefirst foreign leader to visit this temple. Every summer, the Hanban Office

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in Beijing sponsors a Summer Camp for U.S. high school students to take a

one-month tour in China and the Shaolin Temple is a must-visit every year.

The students not only visit the temple, they also try the food the monks eat and

learn kungfu from the monks.

You can get information about the Summer Camp from this website:www.

hanban.edu.cn

Do not miss this opportunity.

Shaolin Kungfu was spread to Japan and Korea in the 18th and 19th cen

turies. The karate in Japan and the taekwondo in Korea both share some simi

larities to the Shaolin Kungfu. Similarities can also be seen in centuries-old

Chinese, Japanese and Korean kungfu manuals.

Now with more and more people being interested in Chinese Kungfu,

branch Shaolin Temples have been built in places all over the world, in Europe,

Australia, South America, Africa, Canada and USA. In New York City there is a

Shaolin Temple in 446, 2nd Floor, Broadway in Manhattan. Another Shaolin

Temple will be built in Upstate New York.

The climate there is quite similar to that in the U.S. except that it does notsnow as heavily as it does in North America. So, when you go there you will not

find it difficult to adjust to the local weather.

Shaolin Temple official website:

http://www.shaolin.org.cn/en/index.aspx

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