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• Form complex affirmative-negative questions.
• List common hobbies and favorite pastimes.
• Compose sentences containing time, place and manner adverbials in correct sequence.
• Create complex queries of invite using culturally appropriate replies of acceptance or rejection.
• Form sentences explaining cause and effect using 因为…所以….
• Compose descriptive phrases using detachable verb-object compounds.
• Express the desire of lack of desire to perform some action.
• Correctly write the characters introduced in this lesson.
• Describe some traditional Chinese games.
• Compare and contrast Chinese and Western customs of entertaining guests at a restaurant.
• Learn the pinyin and correct stroke order for the 12 characters introduced in lesson 4-2.
• Learn the new vocabulary introduced in lesson 4-2. You can practice with the online Table Building Activity.