Describing people, places, and things99c. steamed buns [俈ཪ/佻乣 mántou] – flour [䶘㊿/哠㊿ miànfgn]
d. ice cubes [ඍߦ/ߦ bcngkuài] – water
e. houses – wood [ᵞཪ/ᵞ乣 mùtou]
➪ 30.54 You are a weather forecaster. Describe the weather for these three cities in
complete sentences in Mandarin.
a. New York b. Beijing c. Taipei
cold partly cloudy sunny
snowing windy humid
15 °F –2 °C 30 °C
➪ 30.8
5 You are feeling ill and have a doctor’s appointment. Express the conversation
in Mandarin.
a. Tell the doctor that you are not feeling well, that you have a cough and
a headache and that you also have a runny nose.
b. Have the doctor ask you if you have a fever.
c. Tell the doctor you don’t have a fever.
d. Have the doctor ask if you have diarrhea.
e. Tell the doctor that you do.
f. Have the doctor ask you if you have a stomachache.
g. Tell her that you don’t.
h. Have the doctor tell you that you have a cold. She will write you a prescription,
and you should take the medicine every four hours. You should sleep a lot,
and you should drink a lot of water. It would be best if you did not eat any
spicy food [䗙Ⲻ là de spicy things]. You will feel better in a couple of days.
➪ 30.9, 50.1.3
6 If you were to write a personal ad in Mandarin for your best friend, what
would you say? Write a paragraph with no less than 50 words that includes
his/her personal background, personality and appearance.
(No answer is provided in the Answer Key.)
7 You are telling your neighbor’s children the story of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ in
Mandarin. Describe the candy house in the story. For example, ‘the roof is
made of cookies’. Here’s a beginning for you:
ԌԢⵁࡦжѠᖾཽᙠⲺᡵᆆθ__
ԌهⵁࡦжفᖾཽᙠⲺᡵᆆθ__
Tamen kàndào yc ge hgn qíguài de fángzi, _
They see a very strange house, ___
(No answer is provided in the Answer Key.)