Thursday, April 23, 2015

期末口頭報告:講故事 (Topic due 04/30)

HW for weekend: make 3 sentences for each of grammar points form Page 176-177
Quiz: Rest of Text vocabs

For the oral presentation topics, please type your topic in the comment section so I can make sure no 2 students are doing the same topic! After you have picked your topic, prepare a PowerPoint which will aid you through your presentation. Your presentation should be about 7-12 minutes and in Traditional Chinese characters. Try to engage your audience by incorporating elements that get them involved.
Target audience: imagine you are telling a story to a group of late primary students (4-6th grade) in China. They are not yet mature as secondary students but their literacy skills would allow them to understand most 成語故事, 諺語 or 典故.
Topic (chosen ones shown in red): 
You can choose any 成語 that has a story behind it ex: 畫蛇添足, 毛遂自薦, 牛郎織女,楚才晉用, 欲加之罪﹣何患無辭,退避三舍, 三令五申, 臥薪藏膽, 兔死狗烹, 高枕無憂, 遊刃有餘, 五十步笑一百步, 刺股懸樑, 完璧歸趙, 負荊請罪, 紙上談兵, 奇貨可居, 百家爭鳴, 指鹿為馬, 破釜沉舟, 項莊舞劍﹣意在沛公, 明修棧道暗度陳倉, 背水一戰, 四面楚歌 , 一人得道雞犬昇天, 投筆從戎, 舌戰群儒,洛陽紙貴, 信口雌黃, 東山再起, 世外桃源, 一箭雙鵰, 破鏡重圓, 桃李滿天下, 河東獅吼, 只許州官放火﹣不許百姓點燈, 東窗事發
Classic stories such as : 東郭先生, 劉姥姥進大觀園, 陳世美和秦香蓮, 南郭先生, 姜太公釣魚, 曹沖稱象, 成也蕭何敗也蕭何鐵扇公主, 孟姜女哭長城, 周瑜打黃蓋,萬事俱備只欠東風, 劉備借荊州, 既生瑜何生亮, 賠了夫人又折兵, 身在曹營心在漢, 過五關斬六將, 大意失荊州, 單刀赴會, 士別三日當刮目相看, 敗走麥城, 揮淚斬馬謖, 司馬昭之心路人皆知, 空城計, 逼上樑山, 武松打虎, 此地無銀三百兩, 莫須有, 花木蘭, 搬弄是非(紅樓夢)
Stories from classic Chinese opera storylines霸王別姬,穆桂英掛帥,孫悟空三打白骨精,貴妃醉酒, 活捉(崑曲), 碧玉簪(越劇), 蘇三起解, 二進宮 (advantage of choosing opera stories is that you can play the opera singing video).
Presentation duration: 7-12 minutes (Consult with me if you think you need to go over 10 minutes limit!

 

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    1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shimei
      here is a wikipedia entry that might help you understand better this story of him abandoning his wife. You can click on both the English and Chinese to read.

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    2. It would be good if you also include some Chinese opera excerpt of the story, there are variety of Chinese operas depicting this story.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r0nNlntxWg

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  2. 蘇小慧:畫蛇添足
    俊輝:指鹿為馬
    彬君:成也蕭何敗也蕭何

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