UNIT 2

Introductions

COMMUNICATIVE OBJECTIVES

Once you’ve mastered this unit, you’ll be able to use Chinese to read and write:

1. The names of different countries and regions: China, America, Guizhou, Hong Kong, Taiwan.

2. Different nationalities and ethnic origins: American, Chinese, Taiwanese.

3. Questions and responses about where someone is from.

4. Questions and responses about what someone’s last name, first name, and full name are.

5. Questions and responses about whether something is a certain way or not.

6. Sentences that express suppositions: “I would suppose that…,” “They must not be….”

7. Sentences involving the terms for “both,” “all,” “not all,” and “none.”

8. Sentences involving possession: “my,” “your,” “her,” “his,” “our,” “their,” etc.

9. Sentences that express negative past actions: “didn’t go,” “didn’t bring,” etc.

10. Negative imperative sentences that request that people not do something: “Don’t….”

11. Polite ways to express “you” and ask what someone’s last name is.