军训：一、二、一！
What is junxun? Military training for Chinese university students
Name: ________________ Date: ________
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?