Focus of Lesson 11

Content:

Format of Chinese letters

Describing a place visited

Some knowledge of Chinese history and geography

Structures/Patterns for expressing:

shi…de pattern for focusing on aspects of past events

Adverbs to modifiy verbs

              Potential Verbal Complements

              Expression of measured actions

              Expression of duration of events

              Terms for rivers, lakes, ponds, mountains etc.

Four character expressions

              Emphasizing 'early' and 'late' with 'jiu\' and 'cai/'.