Sept+1,+2

Homework: 9/1 Listen to The Polite Frog for 15 minutes straight. 9/2 Review all the first 100 characters and vocabulary words that go with them. There will be a quiz on ALL the vocabulary words on Thursday.

Today we worked on the story "The Polite Frog" and Chinese politeness.

1. We worked on polite phrases with me (qing3zuo4 /please sit down, qing3chi1 /please eat, qing3he1/ please drink, na3li/ where?, bu2ke4qi4/ don't be polite, bu2xie4 /you don't need to thank, xiuxi/rest, xiuxi yixia rest a bit, ma2fan3 ni3/may a bother you?

2. We made up stories combining the stories //Are You My Mother? Self Introduction, The Three Little Pigs, There is a mountain and The Polite Frog.//

3. We will performed our stories from #2 to each other on Thursday. Each partnership will have 15 minutes to prepare on Thursday before they perform their story.