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Week 8 - 准备考期中考试


js6426

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This week we started our midterms - I had my 综合考试 yesterday, and then next Wednesday I have 口语和听力, then the following week is 阅读。The test yesterday was pretty straight forward, I think I will have scored around 90%.  I made a really stupid mistake and kicked myself afterwards - the question gave us 3 sentences, and we had to choose which one was correct.  The two I struggled with were - '同学们送一本书我‘ and'同学们送我一本书’,I kept going back and forth and eventually switched my answer to the first one! I think the reason I did it is that I would usually say something like '同学们把一本书给我‘,and so I made the stupid assumption that I should just leave the 'wo' at the end of the sentence hah! Aside from that think I did ok.  The test itself was broken down into 10 different sections, with 5 questions in each section.  Some of the sections were - convert the pinyin into Hanzi, convert the Hanzi into pinyin, sort the jumbled Hanzi into a sentence, from the response and a word given in brackets, make an appropriate question, give the correct measure word for the noun, and then finally write a paragraph of at least 100 Hanzi about ‘Your School’.

 

I really liked the section on measure words, I don't know how many there are in total, but I feel like we learned a lot, and even though I knew there were only 5 questions, I made sure I learned them all.  It's nice to feel like I can actually use a lot more than just 'ge' now!

 

I'm not overly concerned about my kouyu and yuedu tests, I think they should also be fairly straightforward.  My biggest worry is tingli, I find it by far the hardest.  I really struggle with distinguishing tones.  I can handle the pronunciation of the actual sounds, but when we get given sentences to listen to in pinyin and there is a word in there which we have to mark with the correct tone, I usually don't do so well.  Fortunately because the content is still quite simple, sometimes I know what the tones are because I can understand the sentence from reading the pinyin!

 

I am interested to see what happens with some of the other students after our first tests.  One class this week 10 of us showed up out of 26!  Miraculously, and actually much to the surprise of our teacher, everyone showed up for the test.

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I wonder whether those students that do not attend class found the level too low? Maybe they'll start attending now?

Thanks for the update, and good luck with the upcoming exams! keep us posted about your results :wink:

How is the weather now in Harbin?

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Dear JS,

Keep the post coming.  For persons like myself who may never go to China or Taiwan to study at that level it is good to know what methodology they are using so we could find someway to learn from your study.

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Yeah Edelweis I think that's the reason, but if that's the case then their level should certainly be high enough to have understood when all our teachers said that if they miss a third of classes they won't be allowed to take their finals!  For classes we have 4 times a week it's not too much of a worry, but we only have our reading class once a week, and some of the students have only been once or twice, so they are really pushing it, if they haven't already missed too many!  Anyway, it's their call.  I will let you know what happens regarding those guys!  Thank you for the good luck, I will let you know how I get on (as long as it's not so low as to be embarrassing hah)!  The weather isn't too bad temperature wise, but starting to get colder.  Today it's -4C at the moment.  The last week has been really bad smog-wise though, as they have just turned the heating on, and so all the dust etc. that has been lying in the pipes comes out and leaves a thick smog everywhere. 

Sure thing gwr71!  Let me know if you have any more specific questions about the methods they use.  As I think I said somewhere, I find their methods to be fantastic, and so much more than just the 'rote memorization' I always hear about.

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