# 11 Practising and consolidating

Regularly practising and consolidating – using a ‘little and often’ method – is considered the best way to learn vocabulary and language structures, and perfect your pronunciation and tones. Activity 14 will help you to revise some of the key vocabulary and language structures you’ve learned this week.

## Activity 14

#### Part 1

Match the ‘topic + comment’ sentences to their English translation.

Tā nán péngyou bú shuài. 她男朋友不帅。

Her boyfriend is not handsome.

Shuō Zhōngwén hěn kù. 说中文很酷。

Speaking Chinese is cool.

Zhè ge diànyǐng hěn làngmàn. 这个电影很浪漫。

This film is romantic.

Wǒ bàba yǒudiǎnr pàng. 我爸爸有点儿胖。

My dad is slightly overweight.

Using the following two lists, match each numbered item with the correct letter.

1. Tā nán péngyou bú shuài. 她男朋友不帅。

2. Shuō Zhōngwén hěn kù. 说中文很酷。

3. Zhè ge diànyǐng hěn làngmàn. 这个电影很浪漫。

4. Wǒ bàba yǒudiǎnr pàng. 我爸爸有点儿胖。

1. 1

   Her boyfriend is not handsome.

2. 2

   Speaking Chinese is cool.

3. 3

   This film is romantic.

4. 4

   My dad is slightly overweight.

The correct answers are:

- 1 =
- 2 =
- 3 =
- 4 =

#### Part 2

Read the following text and select all the true statements.

Wǒ nán péngyou shì Yīngguó rén. Tā hěn gāo, yǒudiǎnr pàng, kěshì hěn shuài! Tā xué Zhōngwén le. Tā hěn cōngmíng! Kěshì tā bú rènshi hěn duō hànzì.

我男朋友是英国人。他很高，有点儿胖，可是很帅！他学中文了。他很聪明！可是他不认识很多汉字。

My boyfriend is little bit overweight.
My boyfriend is Chinese.
My boyfriend has started learning Chinese.
My boyfriend knows very many Chinese characters.
My boyfriend is clever.

### Answer

The correct answers are:

- My boyfriend is a little bit overweight.

- My boyfriend has started learning Chinese.

- My boyfriend is clever.

The translation of the text is:

My boyfriend is British. He is tall and he is slightly overweight, but he is handsome! He has started learning Chinese. He is clever but he doesn’t know many Chinese characters.

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