DLI 3-6

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.

lěng

cold
冫 + 令lìng
ice + alarm clock

When it's cold and icy, the alarm rings.

jiā

add
力 + 口
muscle + mouth

Add muscle to what your mouth says (do the thing you say).

You add muscle to the story (exaggerate) with your mouth.

qiú

ball
王 + 求qiú
jewel + request

a ball is round like a jewel, request teammate to pass the ball

děng

wait
⺮ + 寺
bamboo + Buddhist temple

"Please wait in the bamboo forest outside the temple building site until you are invited in." (Buddhist Temple)

"Can’t wait for Camp Bamboo at the Buddhist temple!" (Camp Bamboo)

Yu, *clothing pully
干 + h
clothesline + “hook”

Mrs. Yu, the inventor of the clothing pulleys that are installed outside people’s apartment windows

zǎo

early, *sunflower
日 + 十
sun + needle

Sunflowers greet the sun in the early morning.

miǎn

avoid, *hare
兔 - 丶
rabbit - drop

In Beatrix Potter's "The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit," a rabbit is missing his tail, but he avoided being killed.

wǎn

nightfall
日 + 免miǎn
sun + avoid/hare

Hares come out when the sun goes down at nightfall.

The sun avoids nightfall.

drink [v.]
口 + 曷hé
mouth + siesta

a drink next to your hammock

“When the gig is over, it is time for a drink and siesta.” (Trumpeter Wu)

DLI 3-6

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