課程目標Overview & Goal:

1. Work on revising and reading of past assignments;

2. Learn online recourses for Chinese news;

3. Develop newspaper-reading skills；

4. Read selected assignments from Voice of America news.

公告欄Bulletin Board:

· See Chinese Tutor Schedule

· No Conversation Hour this week

Week #14

課前功課Homework Due Before Class

上課內容 In-Class Topics

文化點Culture Point

星期一 (4/21)

· VOA Assignment: 双语新闻2008年3/4月 (BILINGUAL NEWS MARCH/APRIL 2008)

· Collect Taiwan Headlines WORD | PDF
English Translation

· 学个词 第一二四零课

· VOA Assignment: 双语新闻2008年3/4月 (BILINGUAL NEWS MARCH/APRIL 2008)

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VOA News学个词 第一二四零课:

今天我们要学的词组是rally。 Rally的意思是集合、集会。成千上万的美国人在首都华盛顿集会，抗议最高法院34年前的一项裁决导致堕胎合法化， "Tens of thousands of people rallied at an anti-abortion march in Washington."

Rally也有病情好转的意思。比如有人生病了，"He had a bad night but rallied by morning," 他夜里病得很厉害，早上病情好转。人们也用rally来形容股票价格止跌回稳， "Tech stocks rallied due to Microsoft's strong earnings." 科技股因为微软公司大幅盈利而有所回升。今天我们学习的词组是rally...

Meet with Sun Laoshi to go over your writing assignments and projects.

星期三 (4/23)

· Meet with Sun Laoshi individually to go over portfolio essays, and work on reading.

· News online

BBC Chinese.com

VOA News

Xinhua.org (PRC)

China.com.cn

EpochTimes.com

WCETV - Asia

BCC Broadcast

CNR Broadcast