DLI 3-3

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.

yòng

utilize, *Little Red Riding Hood
冂 + 1
hood + bouquet

Little Red utilizes her hood every day when she is picking bouquets.

biān

border
力 + 辶
muscle + road

"Border with Muscle: With unemployment in the U.S. soaring, patrols are building up muscle on the border to keep Mexicans out." (1930's On the Road)

xiè

thank
讠 + 射shè
microphone + shoot

alternatively: 讠+身+寸 microphone + somebody + thumb, in a microphone: thank you to the somebody who...they deserve a thumbs up

use a microphone to shoot somebody a thank you or thumbs up

diǎn

spot [n.]
占 + 灬
tell fortunes + cooking fire

fortune teller looks into cooking fire, then looks away and sees spots: uses these to tell your fortune (Macbeth)

dōng

east, *rickshaw
车 + 小
vehicle + small

small vehicle of the east is a rickshaw

duō

many
夕 + 夕
evening + evening

"many moons ago" (a story told in the evening)

shǎo

few
小xiǎo + 丿
small + slash

take a small thing and slash it into a few

jiù

at once
京 + 尤yóu
capital + Goofy

in Beijing, they force Goofy to leave at once

京尤就

DLI 3-3

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