Lesson ONE: Greeting

by Hsin-Yun Yao
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Part One: Reading
Part Two: Vocabulary
Part Three: Sentence Patterns and Drills

Part One: Reading

I. Reading

Mr. Wang : Good morning Mr. Lin. How are you?
Mr. Lin : I am fine, and you?
Mr. Wang : I am very busy.
Mr. Lin: Goodbye, Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang: Goodbye.

Part Two: Vocabulary

: Mr. Wang

: 1) a sure name; 2) king

: "mister"

: 1) a sure name; 2) forest

: 1) early; 2) good morning

: Goodbye; see you (again); so long

: again

: see

: How are you ?

: very

: good, fine, well

: busy

: you (polite form)

: first person singular: "I", "me" (Chinese does not distinguish between subject and object pronouns)

: you (informal form and person singular)

: indicate question (always tagged at the end of the sentence)

: sentence partical "and how about..." always tagged at the end of the sentence

: Greeting

Part Three: Sentence patterns and Drills

1. Simple sentences with Adverb (A) and Stative Verb (SV)

S	(A)	SV
	()	. . .
()

Note for Stative Verbs (SV):

In Chinese, we just say(I busy), without the verb to be.

Thus, = I am busy

Stative Verbs such as , or are used in the same way.

2. Simple type of question ("Yes-No" question)

S	SV	QW
		?
()

Note for Question Word () :

We add in the end of a Chinese statement to make a question sentence without changing the words order.

3. "Tag-question" :

(A)	SV	T.-Q
()	. .	?

Note:
"? " or " ? " is a "Tag-question"; usually we add it in the end of a sentence to form a short "counter-question".

4. Greeting : ""

.
.
.
, .

Note:
We say "

" or "

" as "Good morning" in English.

We can also say "" only.