军训：一、二、一！
What is junxun? Military training for Chinese university students
Name: ________________ Date: ________
九月，很多新学生来到大学。他们还没有课，大家都要军训。
军训是什么？学生们要和军人一样站、吃饭、睡觉。中国的大学生都要军训。很多学校的军训是两三个星期。
学生们一天做什么？这是一个大学的一天：
早上六点：起床！很多学生还想睡觉。不能睡了！
上午：大家要站很长时间。九月的天气还很热，太热了！不能说话，也不能看手机。
十二点：吃饭！大家都吃很多很多！
下午：军人说“一、二、一”，很多学生一起走路。
晚上：大家还要唱歌。
十点：睡觉！很多人都不想看手机了，太想睡觉了！
军训的时候，学生们最想要什么？不是好吃的，不是手机，是下雨！下雨的时候，有的学校不军训。
两三个星期以后，大家都能早上六点起床了！还有一点不一样：很多人都黑了！
你呢？早上六点，你能起床吗？
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 多 | duō | many; much |
| 新 | xīn | new; newly; just |
| 学生 | xuéshēng | student; pupil |
| 大学 | dàxué | university; college |
| 他们 | tāmen | they; them |
| 还 | hái | also; in addition (and also …) |
| 没有 | méiyǒu | not have; there is not |
| 课 | kè | class; lesson |
| 大家 | dàjiā | everyone; everybody |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; in every case |
| 要 | yào | to want; to ask for; to need |
Lesson plan: 45 minutes (for the teacher)
HSK 1 · What is junxun? Military training for Chinese university students. By the end, students can read it aloud, say what it is about and use 很 and 多 in sentences of their own.
Warm-up 5 min
Write 军训：一、二、一！ on the board. Ask what the class thinks it is about, then give the English: “What is junxun? Military training for Chinese university students”.
Key words 10 min
Teach 很 (hěn, very; quite), 多 (duō, many; much), 新 (xīn, new; newly; just), 学生 (xuéshēng, student; pupil), 大学 (dàxué, university; college), 他们 (tāmen, they; them). Say each one, the class says it back, then ask for its meaning with the word covered. The rest are in the handout’s table.
Listen 10 min
Play it read aloud from mandarinthewild.com/library/read/what-is-junxun-military-training-for-chinese-university-students: once with the text face down, once reading along. Students tap any word there for its meaning.
Read and check 10 min
Students read it alone, then tell a partner in two sentences of Chinese what it says.
Use it 10 min
In pairs, each student writes two sentences of their own, one with 很 and one with 多, and reads one to the class.
Homework. Students read it again at home and Review its words. Put it in a free class (mandarinthewild.com/teachers/class) and you see who read it.
English (for the teacher)
In September, lots of new students arrive at university. They don't have classes yet; everyone has to do junxun, military training.
What is junxun? Students have to stand, eat and sleep the way soldiers do. University students in China all have to do junxun. At many schools, junxun lasts two or three weeks.
What do the students do all day? Here is one university's day:
Six in the morning: get up! Lots of students still want to sleep. No more sleeping!
Morning: everyone has to stand for a long time. September is still very hot, far too hot! No talking, and no looking at phones either.
Twelve o'clock: eat! Everyone eats a lot, a whole lot!
Afternoon: the soldier calls “one, two, one” (left, right, left), and lots of students march together.
Evening: they have to sing songs, too.
Ten o'clock: sleep! Lots of people don't even want to look at their phones anymore; they want to sleep that badly!
During junxun, what do students want most? Not tasty food, not their phones, but rain! When it rains, some schools stop junxun.
Two or three weeks later, everyone can get up at six in the morning! And one more thing is different: lots of them have got tanned!
What about you? At six in the morning, could you get up?