With the aim to improve the students English and Chinese language level and enhance the relationship between the Chinese and foreign students, the International Students Association Study Department successfully hosted the first 2018 Chinese and English Corner.

VENUE: International Hub

TIME: Friday 6:30 pm 27/04/2018

A total number of 25 students attended the event (12 foreign students and 13 Chinese students).

Activity content:

English and Chinese Riddles

Riddles are one of the beauties of learning a language, they are statements, questions, pictures or even phrases having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

Together we solved the riddles and explained the meanings behind them, even went further learning different ways those words could be expressed.

Try this: Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does Paul weigh?

The Brick Game

The brick game is not just a game for fun but also a game that brings out the coordination in oneself, deserve some critical thinking and coordinated mind to pull out the right brick and save the building.

To play this game we divided the class to a team of A, B, C, D, E. The game progressed orderly till the 4^th round and the team D lost the game. They had to sing as a compensation to the class.

Idiomatic phrase

    Idioms are like salt to languages, it is a phrase that has a figurative or sometimes literal meaning. Idioms exist in every language, it is commonly used by the owners of the language, just as “kick the bucket” has nothing to do with life but it means “to die”.

Try this: At the drop of a hat.

Third game: “30 seconds”

The game called 30 seconds is a word game containing words, prases and names. Just like the first game, the teams choose a member who try to illustrate the words using a definition or a similar word while the team members try to answer   correctly the word on the paper in 30second.

This game helps to improve our vocabularies and expand the knowledge we already have on a particular word.

Finally, the Chinese and English corner successfully came to an end.

We are glad to have such a study platform, and special thanks to all the students who participated in the Chinese and English corner. Hope we have more opportunities to meet, learn and grow together.

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