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From Nick K. at Panzhihua University:
Oral English FINAL Project
Scenario:
You are a news team from CCTV. It is your job to cover one of the following five events:
1) 2008 Olympics in Beijing
2) Opening of railway to Tibet
3) Spring Festival in Kunming
4) North Korean nuclear test
5) China’s first five years in the WTO (World Trade Organization)
Each member of your news team has a job. The jobs are:
This link explains with pictures and English translations how to fully use Baidu.com’s mp3 download feature. Baidu has lots of great features that you may not be aware of because it’s all in 汉字 (hanzi), but this site explains it.
The site as whole, sinosplice.com, is a good blog about life in modern China. Nothing controversial at all, quite mild, interesting, and helpful. The owner and blogger is John, who is certainly familiar to all you ChinesePod users.
Thailand Itinerary – courtesy of Derek K.
- Leave Chengdu, Sichuan for Kunming, Yunnan by overnight train
DEPARTURE TIME: 8:00 PM
DURATION: 18 hr
COST: $29.72 USD (¥240)
ADD $10 USD (¥81) SPENDING MONEY
DAY 1: Friday, January 27, 2006 (COST: $16.00 / ¥131)
Submitted by: Scott P, Sichuan (China 11)
Duration: 1 – 2 class periods
Materials Needed: City Design/Planning sheets & City Search Handouts, large butcher paper for each group of 4
Goals:
1. To use English to create and design a village, town, or city for people to live.
2. To work in collaboration in how to budget and design a village, town, or city.
3. To design a persuasive speech to convince other classmates to move to their village, town, or city.
4. To ask questions as a potential citizen in other towns, villages and cities.
