Preparation Guidelines for the Mid-Term Oral Exam

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Preparation Guidelines for the Mid-Term Oral Exam

The mid-term oral exam is scheduled for Friday, May 10. Your instructorwill ask youhow you maintain your physical fitness and financial well being, how you do your part to cut down pollution and to protect the planet earth, and quiz you about Chinese history.You will have to reciprocate similar questions to the instructor. The instructor may ask follow-up questions with visual cues if needed. When initiating and answering questions, you need to say them in complete sentences.Do not repeat the same vocab when answering different questions. If you have difficulties understanding the instructor, you may say “Qĭngnĭzàishuōyíbiàn” to ask your instructor to repeat one more time.

You are advised to review Lessons 14, 16, 17 and 18 thoroughly before starting preparing your oral. Go over the audio, vocabulary, examples in the Grammar and Words & Phases sections, texts, homework assignments, and previous tests to help you prepare for the oral. Reviewing the learning objectives of the lessons and the notes posted online is a good way to help you focus. Use as many recently learned vocab items and sentence structures as needed in your interview and use them accurately and appropriately. Do not do word-to-word translation and do not look up new words in the dictionary when preparing. However, if needed, you may want to review Lesson 8.

Your performance is graded based on the following categories:

1.Consonantal Phonology

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near nativeintelligiblebarely intelligible

2.Vocalic Phonology

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near nativeintelligiblebarely intelligible

3.Tones

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near nativeintelligiblebarely intelligible

4.Vocabulary

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new, rich & accuratewith some mistakespoor

5.Structures

Does the subject reflect sentence structures that are

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new, sophisticated & accuratewith some errorsawkward

6.Ability to Understand Questions

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goodfairpoor

7.Ability to Initiate Questions

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good fairpoor

8.Task Completion

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all & wellmost & fairlittle & poor

9.Organization & Coherence

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goodfairpoor

10.Preparation

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goodfairpoor

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Mid Term: Oral Interview

Name: ______

A. 1. 孔子对中国有什么贡献？

2. 秦始皇对中国有什么好的影响？有什么不好的影响？

3. 除了秦朝以外，你觉得中国的哪一个朝代很重要？为什么？

B.1. 你常常把钱花在什么上？

2. 你一般把钱放在哪儿？

3. 如果你有钱，你会把钱投资在什么上？为什么？

C.1. 你怎么减少白色污染来保护环境？

2.你怎么节约能源来保护绿色地球？

D.1. 你平常怎么锻炼身体？

2. 你多久锻炼一次身体？

3. 你每次锻炼多长时间？

4. 你多久没锻炼身体了？

5. 你一般怎么注意饮食？

6. 什么对身体健康没有好处？

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