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TRACK 21 (Practice 3, Activity 12) for us and though we’re really busy, it’s nice to spend
time with our families.
Girl: Yes, it’s a sundial and they use light and shadow. Reporter: This year will be the Year of the Dog. You
Boy: Ok, so both of us are right. Although it’s about a can see people dressed in red all around the city
clock, because it is used to find out the time. and couplets with slogans and poems are pasted on
or tacked up to doors. Others are ready to go to the
TRACK 22 (Practice 3, Activity 16) Longtan fair, to see martial arts competitions and
demonstrations of other sports.
Narrador: Select a suitable, safe outdoor site. Sun Xiantang, Beijing resident: I’m going to Longtan
Narradora: Locate an object at the site that casts a park with my friends. They’re participating in the ping
narrow shadow. pong tournament. I like watching the arm-wrestling
competitions and chess. Others may think it’s boring,
TRACK 23 (Practice 3, Activity 22)
but the crowds are greeeaaat! It’s really, really, exciting.
You can’t hear a thing. It’s fantastic.
Juan: I like the experiment about the sundial. Reporter: Chinese people’s children and grandchildren
Marcela: But it already has instructions. who live abroad come to visit their relatives. Others with
Daniel: I suggest we go with the experiment about the Chinese partners or spouses have come for the season.
paper spiral moved by heat. Jocelyn Brooker (London): My mother-in-law lives in
Juan: I agree. It’s simple, but it looks spectacular.
Sichuan and we will be staying with her on the weekend.
Virginia: Yes, but since you need a candle, it cannot be We’re having a short holiday trip afterwards. We shall
done by small children. also go to Macau where I have some friends I studied
Daniel: Yep, although it can be done with the help of with at university. We’re really full of beans!
an adult.
Reporter: Tourists coming at this time of the year usually
gather at the Chaoyang International Festival.
TRACK 24 (Practice 3, Activity 28)
Kathy Ebert (San Francisco): We’ll go have a look. For
Marcela: The first step should be “draw the spiral”. our vacation, we’re gonna visit the festival. We’ve also
gotten tickets for the festival in the Old Summer Palace
Juan: Agreed. Then, the second one should be “cut out
here in Beijing. It’s gonna be a blast.
the spiral”.
Virginia: But how should we indicate which goes first Reporter: While the vacation period ends on February
and which follows? 21st, celebrations will continue for two weeks with the
Daniel: We can write “First, second, third”. Lantern festival, so there will be a thrilling atmosphere
Juan: I suggest using numbers. I think it’s clearer that way. here in China in the days to come.
Virginia: I go for that option.
TRACK 26 (Practice 4, Activity 7)
TRACK 25 (Practice 4, Activities 7, 12, 16)
Girl: They use banners to show which event they are
referring to: “Chinese New Year. Celebrations Begin
Narrador: Running the show
in China”.
Presenter: And today is February 16th, 2018! All around Boy: They use credits to put the name of the people
China, over a billion people are now celebrating the appearing onscreen and where they are from.
beginning of the Year of the Earth Dog! Our reporter, Girl: How many people were there? I saw five people.
Mark Spitz, has the following chronicle. Three women and two men.
Reporter: Families gathered last night for dinner as Boy: Yes, but you’re forgetting about the reporter, who
fireworks and firecrackers were heard all across the big is off-camera. And we also had a glimpse of different
cities and small towns in China. Chinese New Year is the places in China.
most important festival for Chinese people. In the capital Girl: Yes, since it is a TV news broadcast all the
Beijing, celebrations began with huge crowds gathering reporting is done outdoors.
to watch the Lion Dance. Drums, cymbals and gongs Boy: But the anchor is on the TV news set. You can see
accompany the movements of dancers, which, tradition the TV screens in the background.
tells, is meant to frighten away evil spirits and bring luck
for the new year. In northern China, dumplings, called TRACK 27 (Practice 4, Activity 10)
jiaozi, are a common dish; while niangao, a rice cake, is
eaten in Southern China, for good luck. Girl 1: When I saw the first interviewee, the man who
Lau Wei, Shanghai resident: I manage a store founded inherited the store, he seemed really animated and
by my great-grandparents almost a century and a half enthusiastic, and he looked overjoyed.
ago. We sell niangao during these days. As you can see, Boy: But the second interviewee was way more
there are some in the form of carp, others are shaped as enthusiastic! You remember how he was almost
ingots and here you can see some resembling Caishen, shouting at the end of his answer to the reporter.
a deity of wealth. In the last few years, we have added Girl 2: The first girl interviewed had a really tranquil
some niangao that can people can scratch to reveal a demeanor. Like a real homebody. She spoke fondly of
lucky number, you know, for the lottery. It’s a hectic time her in-laws.

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