Chinese 301 Homework assignment 1

Due 9/10 (Wednesday).

If you need to submit a draft first for me to look at, you can email it to me at zzhang@mail.sdsu.edu.

Please use either njstar/word or plain text file and send it by attachment. DO NOT send it in the body of the email message.

If you need help with getting or using Njstar, see the files online at:

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/classmaterial.html

You can also use the full version of Njstar in the PC wing of the language lab.

The homework should be typed unless otherwise noted.

1. Study the Recurring Component handout and the Simplified Characters file, both are online at http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/classmaterial.html
2. Do the conversion exercise handout (by hand)
3. List characters in the first lesson (introduction to Unit one) that have both the simplified and traditional versions (by hand).
4. Make sentences with the following words:

增长:

为（with 2^nd tone, ‘to be’）:

却:

….就（just … alone):

才 (only):

V 得 complement:

5. Use the diagrams in the keypoint handout online ( http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/third/lesson1-0summary.HTML ) and write 5 sentences which describe the bar graphs.

6. Translate the following phrases into Chinese:

11.34 hundred million (no Arabic numerals!)

by the end of the 60s

increased by ten folds

in the world

average living area per person

50 years later