1. ChineseFestival.com Jing-Huey Lin CI 5362 Instructor: Kashif Asdi How to increase knowledge of Chinese culture by learning and practicing basic dialogs

2. Introduction Chinese New Year (Jan 1st, Lunar Calendar) Lantern Festival (Jan 15th, Lunar Calendar) Dragon Boat Festival (May 5th, Lunar Calendar) Chinese Valentine’s Day (July 7th, Lunar Calendar) Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th, Lunar Calendar)

3. Audience: Persons who use Chinese as a second language and know basic phonetic transcription of Mandarin, American born Chinese want to know more about Chinese culture, Persons who are amateurs of Chinese language and Chinese culture.

4. Goals: Understand 5 important festivals of Chinese culture. Use at least 50 terms related to those special occasions. Learn the basic social conversation and precise pronunciation, intonation

5. Learning Activities: Read the brief history, origin and customs Watch on-line movies Learn the vocabularies and terms Practice short sentences and dialogs Do various exercises and quizzes

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7. Future: what am I going to do? Discover more teaching material in Chinese learning. Increase more interactive function in my project. Ex: quizzes Learn advanced web editing techniques.