After a long winter, we started our Chinese classes for Spring 2011. Yesterday before Easter Sunday at the children’s class, we reviewed the sentence patterns for to eat, to drink, and like to eat, like to drink, etc. The children conversed with each other using the sentence patterns with different vocabulary, e.g. "What do you eat?" "I eat carrots." “Do you like to eat onions?” “I don’t like to eat onions.” “I like to eat potatoes.” Then I moved on to teach them how to indicate the past, present, and future, e.g. yesterday, today, and tomorrow. To make the sentence drill more fun, we practiced on saying what each of us would eat and drink on the next day, Easter Sunday. Since many of us would have ham for Easter dinner, I told everyone that the Chinese phrase for ham is “fire leg”. This reminded them that the Chinese for turkey is “fire chicken”. Now with the Easter bunny jumping around in their heads, the kids got very creative. They started to put the words they have learned together to say “Tomorrow I will eat a Chocolate Rabbit.” “Do you like to eat Green Eggs and Ham?”
“Are we doing Dr. Seuss in Chinese?” one student asked.
Later I googled on Green Eggs and Ham and found this website on chinesepod.com/lessons/chinese-green-eggs-and-ham. It sounds like a fun lesson. You may want to listen to it when you get a chance.
Here are more Chinese translations from this Dr. Seuss rhyme:
——你喜欢吃绿蛋和火腿吗？ ——你喜欢在这里吃或者那里吃吗？ ——你喜欢在房子里吃或者和老鼠一起吃吗？ ——你喜欢在盒子里吃或者和狐狸一起吃吗？ ——你喜欢在船上吃或者和山羊一起吃吗？ --山姆是我
I hope you had a wonderful Easter dinner today with your family and you liked everything you ate.
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