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• Be able to confidently use the verb 有 - yŏu, "to have," and its negative 沒有 - méiyǒu.
• Fluently use the preposition 給 - gĕi, "on behalf of someone."
• Be comfortable talking about your family: how many people in your family; what job they have and where they work; if you miss them; if you write or call them often.
• Use the following words, and sentences in Mandarin with fluency:
  1. to do, work, to think, family, to have, to not have, younger sister, older sister, bank, spouse, bookstore, child, to give, to write, letter, to tell, office worker, engineer, manager, company
  2. Her family has a father, mother, older brother, and younger sister.
  3. Do you miss your boyfriend?
  4. What kind of job does he have?
  5. Do you have an older sister?
  6. Where does she work?
  7. My father is an engineer and my mother is the manager of a bank.
  8. I often write letters to my family.
  9. They send their regards.
• Learn the pinyin and correct stroke order for the 18 characters introduced in lesson 14.
• Learn the new vocabulary introduced in lesson 14. You can practice with the online Table Building Activity.