DLI 2-3

In this lesson, read through the information for each character. In your character notebook, draw a picture or cartoon of the story that will help you remember the character. Then take the quiz.

ma

yes/no?
口 + 马mǎ
mouth + horse

Picture what comes out of the mouth of the horse is a yes/no question.

asking someone if they like horses ?

shéi

who
讠 + 隹zhuī
microphone + special bird

in a microphone: "Who let the turkeys out? Who? Who? Who?"

huì

meeting
8 + I
meeting + Great Wall

Picture the ultimate summit meeting: on the Great Wall.

period of time
其qí + 月
laundry basket + month

After a period of time, the laundry basket begins to stink: a month is too long between washes.

you
亻 + 尔
persona + you [literary]

alternatively: 亻 + ⺈ + 小 persona + mask + small: your persona says, “You (little person)! Put this mask on.”

人尔你

I, me
手 + 戈
hand + rifle

I've got a right to my rifle!"

alternatively: a picture of a hand pointing to its other hand

suì

years of age
山 + 夕
mountain + evening

when you are of age, you can go the mountains in the evening

each year you get taller, maybe as high as a mountain, measure your height at your evening party

méi

not have
氵 + 殳
water + boomerang

Boomerang territory (Western Australia) does not have much water.

alternatively: 氵 + 几 + 又 water + wind + right hand, Water washes it away, so there is nothing left, wind blows it away, so there is nothing left, hand brushes it away, so there is nothing left.

zhè

this
文 + 辶
gentleman farmer + road

wén on the roadzhè!” (to the tune of "Minimum wage! Hyah!")

A gentleman farmer Robert Frost wrote this poem: “The Road Not Taken”.

"This Gentleman Farmer: During the Dust Bowl, many have to leave their farms. This gentleman farmer is one of them." (1930's On the Road)

alternatively: 亠 + 乂 + 辶 top hat + X + road, You see a top hat on the road and when you pick it up, underneath an X marks this spot.

DLI 2-3

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