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Dragon Boat Festival Coming Up

二零一二年六月十二日  星期二

There is an important holiday coming up near the end of this month.  This holiday is widely celebrated with boat racing, perfumed sachets, wine, and sticky rice dumplings (zongzi).  To find out more, click on the following link:

http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/dragon_e/dragon.htm

To know what yummy food Chinese people eat during this time, click the link below:

http://redcook.net/2009/05/27/zongzi-secrets/

There are all different varieties of Zongzi.  Click the link to see them:

http://www.google.co.th/images?q=zongzi&hl=en&gbv=2&gs_l=hp.3..0l10.4674.7795.0.8020.20.12.0.8.8.0.262.1513.0j7j3.10.0...0.0.LXGer8aaKaE&sa=X&oi=image_result_group

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Are you the rabbit?

Year4 Mandarin classes are catching up with "animals" topic this week.   Students learned to memorise the animal names with their elephant reader and acting game.

If you want to find out about other animals, here is a link:

http://www.oup.com/oxed/children/firstwords/chinese/amusinganimals/

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