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- <title>Personal Welfare</title>
- <para/>
- <section>
- <title>Objectives for the Personal Welfare Module</title>
- <para>When you have finished this module, you will be able to:</para>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Describe the weather in all four seasons for your present locale, a Chinese
- city, and your hometown. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Describe the location, geographical setting, population, and air quality of
- the three areas in No. 1. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Give the names of five or more items of clothing. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Get your hair cut or styled. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Describe several items you ordinarily carry with you when traveling. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Give the names of and describe the different rooms in a house. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Give simple directions to a babysitter. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Ask and answer questions about the common cold and its symptoms. Offer advice
- on what to do for a simple ailment. Understand the use of kāishuǐ, “boiled
- water.” </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Describe what takes place during a visit to the doctor. Know how to give
- normal body temperature in Celsius and in Fahrenheit. Tell ’“where it hurts”
- (using a list of the parts of the body, if necessary. ) </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Describe accidents where injuries occur, and tell someone to call an
- ambulance. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Report the loss of a passport to the appropriate officials. Find out where to
- go to report the loss and be able to determine whether adequate translation
- facilities will be available. </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Use the words for “danger” and “caution” in grammatical, situationally
- appropriate sentences. Describe how someone entered a restricted area and how
- and for what reasons he was escorted out.</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Unit 1: Weather and Terrain</title>
- <section>
- <title>Reference List</title>
- <para/>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>References Notes</title>
- <section>
- <title>References Notes on Part 1</title>
- <para>Jīntiān tiānqi hěn hǎo: Notice that the time word jīntiān “today” is placed
- before the subject, not directly before the verb here. Most time words of more
- than one syllable may come either before or after the subject, but in either
- case before the verb. Examples:<informaltable frame="none" rowsep="1" colsep="1">
- <tgroup cols="1" align="center">
- <colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="1*"/>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>Qùnián wǒ hái bú huì xiě zì.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Last year I still couldn’t write characters.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Wǒ xiànzài hui xiě yìdiǎn le. </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Now I can write a little.</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable></para>
- <para>qìhòu: “climate” Also pronounced qìhòu (with hou in the neutral tone).</para>
- <para>Dōngtiān hěn lěng.: “it's cold in winter” The adverb hěn is not translated
- here. Often hěn adds little or nothing to the intensity of the adjectival verb,
- and doesn’t need to be translated by “very.” Later, you may notice that
- sometimes we translate the hěn literally and sometimes we choose to omit it from
- the translation. It is not a matter of right and wrong; it is more a matter of
- feeling, and may be, we admit, a somewhat arbitrary decision.</para>
- <para>chángcháng: “often, frequently, usually” An alternate form of this word is
- cháng.<informaltable frame="none" rowsep="1" colsep="1">
- <tgroup cols="1" align="center">
- <colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="1*"/>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>Tā chángcháng qù Xiānggǎng.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>She often goes to Hong Kong.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Tā cháng kàn bàozhǐ.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>He often reads the newspaper.</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable></para>
- <para>The phrase “very often” is NOT formed by using hěn with cháng; instead, Just
- use cháng or chángcháng. If you must stress that something happens very often,
- use a phrase like “every few days.”</para>
- <para>xià xuě: “to snow” or more literally ”(there) falls snow.” The subject xuě
- “snow” normally follows the verb xià “to descend.” This reversal of subject and
- verb is the rule, not the exception, in weather expressions.<footnote><para>English
- is no more logical when it comes to weather expressions: it
- uses the meaningless “it,”as in “it snows.”</para></footnote><informaltable
- frame="none" rowsep="1" colsep="1">
- <tgroup cols="1" align="center">
- <colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="1*"/>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>Òu, xià xuě le.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Oh, it’s snowing.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Xià xuě ma? Bu xià.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Is it snowing? No.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Yǒu méiyou xià xue? Méiyou.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Is it snowing? No.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Xià xuě le méiyou? Méiyou.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Is it snowing? No.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Jīntiān xià xuě bu xià xuě?</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Is it going to snow today?</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Xiànzài bù xià xuě le.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>It's not snowing anymore.</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable></para>
- <para>tiān: “heaven, sky, day.”<informaltable frame="none" rowsep="1" colsep="1">
- <tgroup cols="1" align="center">
- <colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="1*"/>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>Āiya, wǒde tiān na!</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Oh my heavens!</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Tiān zhǐdao!</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry/>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Heaven only knows!</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable></para>
- <para>qíng: “to be clear, to clear up” In the sentence Tiān qíng le, the marker le
- tells us that a change has taken place. The meaning is not simply that the sky
- is clear, but that the sky is clear NOW, or rather, the sky has cleared
- up.</para>
- <para/>
- </section>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Unit 2: Clothing</title>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Unit 3: Hair Care</title>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Unit 4: In the Home</title>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Unit 5: Minor Physical Complaints</title>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Unit 6: Accidents and Difficulties</title>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Appendixes</title>
- <section>
- <title>Parts of the body</title>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Medical Conditions and Illnesses</title>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Furniture and Household Items</title>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Parts of the House</title>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Module Vocabulary List</title>
- </section>
- </chapter>
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