Jeremy Chen’s Blog

Australian Open 2015

Page one for male players. (Lesson 1)

Page two for female players. (Lesson 2)

Use: Lead-in questions.

Set-up: a colour page per table

Q: 你喜欢谁？

A: 我喜欢[name]

Q: 你最喜欢谁？

A: 我最喜欢[name]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/njziwiyo6wqxb6v/w02%20talk%20about%20ausopen.pdf?dl=0

Source: Social Leaderboard – Social – Australian Open Tennis Championships 2015 – Official Site by IBM.

Teach this sentence:
Why to teach it?
– nobody denies guanxi plays a crucial role in Chinese communities but many people feels Australia had a similar system. Is it it true? What are the similarities and differences.

What to teach?
– grammar 有、没（有）、就
– culture: concepts of 关系, how it influences people’s life / power and wealth distribution

How to teach it?
– a big question 🙂

「有關係就沒關係，沒關係就有關係」

柯文哲說，他前幾天和體育局官員談到，台北市12個運動中心的場所租出合約，租金計價方式都不一樣，所以他叫財政局定統一公式，體育局現在補助學校辦運動比賽的經費，過去很多是看交情、看關係，「有關係就沒關係，沒關係就有關係」，因此，未來他會要求把補助費申請表、補助標準等都上網公告，審核委員也要公開遴選，才能達到公開透明的目標。

Source: http://newtalk.tw/mobile/news_in.php?id=56354

I stole the idea for you from alliance française de melbourne.