1. Lesson 9-2 Practical Chinese Reader

2. Tā xìng shénme, jiào shénme? Tā shì nǎ guó rén? Tā shì lǎoshī ma? Tā shì xuésheng ma? Tā shì liúxuéshēng ma? Tā xuéxí shénme?

3. How do you say the following words and phrases? May I ask…? (What is) your honorable last name ? What is your last name? What is your given name/full name? My given name is… My last name is… to study to study Chinese a student a international/foreign student foreign language foreign language institute

4. Hello. May I ask, what's your (honorable) last name? My last name is … What's your given name? My given name is … Are you a student? Yes, I am CSULB's student. I am (a country's) exchange student (if you are). Do you study Chinese? Yes, I study Chinese. Who is your Chinese language teacher? Prof. Xie is our Chinese language teacher. Is he Chinese? Yes, he is Chinese. He is also American. Is he good? He is very good. Are you busy? Yes, I am very busy. How about you? I am also very busy. Do you drink coffee? No, I don't drink coffee. I drink tea. Tea is very good. Coffee is not good. I also drink beer. Hmm, beer is very good. I drink beer too. Look, that is beer. Drink! Thank you. You're welcome.

5. Read the following words and spell them in Pinyin 請問 ______________________ 留學生 ______________________ 貴姓 ______________________ 叫 ______________________ 外語 ______________________ 學院 ______________________ 學生 ______________________ 留學生 ______________________ 學習 ______________________ 漢語 ______________________

6. Read and understand the following text. 這是我好朋友。他姓白 (Bái) ，叫德 明 (Démíng) 。白德明是美國人，是 University of Pittsburgh 的老師。他 是漢語老師。

7. Read and understand the following text. 那是李華 (lǐ Huá) ，是中國人。他是北 京外語學院的學生，學習英 (Yīng) 語、 日 (Rì) 語。他不喝 kāfēi ，他喝茶、喝 niúnǎi ( ) 。他也不吸煙。

8. Learn to write these characters 貴 姓 叫 留 學 生 習 外 語 院貴 姓 叫 留 學 生 習 外 語 院