If you have the luxury of a language learning partner and are looking for some helpful activities, try taking a magazine along with you (something with lots of pictures) and see how detailed you can get when describing pictures to your partner. There will always be certain aspects that you can’t describe with your current vocabulary. Use this opportunity to learn new ways to describe what you’re seeing. In your next session, you can try describing the same picture again using what your partner taught you last time. If you do this enough times, you will then be able to practice your new skills yourself the next time you have time to stare at a billboard.

Today’s lesson doesn’t introduce any new vocabulary but should still be a good review of what we have taught you so far. Use the Complete transcript to translate any words you may not recall. Go through the Notes to see highlights of sentence patterns and alternate usages of items we have taught before. Then go through the exercises to see if you can come up with some of the sentence patterns on your own. You can add to the challenge by completing the above activities using one of the alternate modes such as Chinese characters or even working backwards from English back to Chinese.