Our Chinese class has helped me and the other students improve our Mandarin. I have learned so many things. We have learned things about each other like how many family members we have, how old they are and what our parents do for a living. We have also learned how to say cool, lovely, handsome , beautiful , very smart , great job , birthday, caution signs , jobs , fruit , vegetables , time , money , sports , different types of transportation, phone conversations, animals , types of drinks and more. We also learned how to count all the way to 100 and each other’s Chinese names. ALL OF THIS IN CHINESE!! This Mandarin class has taught me a lot, and I’m really thankful that I have a great Chinese teacher 
We have also done reports, taken vocabulary tests, listened to audio tapes and answered questions about them. We also memorized dialogues and presented them the following day without looking at our notes.
We played many games to help us practice what we have learned, for example, the -1 game. In this game, the teacher will repeat a new vocabulary word a certain number of times. We then have to repeat that word one less time than the teacher or the other team will gain a point. In another game, the teacher writes our new vocabulary words all over the board. She calls out a word and two people have to find the word and slap it. The first person who slaps it gets a point for their team. It gets very competitive! My favorite game is The Killing Game. Each person is assigned a role like killers, doctor, police or citizen. Then, using basic Chinese phrases, vocabulary and numbers in Chinese, you have to figure out what role each person has.
In the last class, we took a lot of pictures with the Chinese teacher. I guess she will miss us. I’d like to thank her for teaching us so many things and giving us a lot of fun.
Selina Segura
Shanghai 6-Week, 2011
Austin, TX
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