UNIT 5

Locating Persons, Places, and Things

COMMUNICATIVE OBJECTIVES

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

1. Where someone or something is located relative to someone or something else: “here,” “there,” “right,” “left,” “top,” “bottom,” “above,” “below,” “inside,” and “outside.”

2. About the direction in which a certain place is located with reference to another place: “north,” “south,” “east,” and “west.”

3. About the location of various Chinese provinces relative to each other.

4. A passage discussing the geography and history of Beijing.

5. A passage introducing Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.

6. A passage about National Taiwan University in Taipei.

7. The transcription of an overheard cell phone conversation in a park in Beijing.

8. A handwritten note from one Chinese student to another.

9. A popular Chinese saying from Taiwan in the 1960s.

10. How Chinese people describe the characters used to write their names.