Chinese learning through movies !!

11-3-2011
Today we started the day with APPG pop QUIZ !!! i gotta admit i didnt really study for it .... sorry Mr.Chua!!! During lunch a group of us went to gary's room and we ordered macdonalds for lunch delivery is only 15mins only fast eh for a country that big . (this is where the fun starts for today) After lunch we had a lesson with a chinese lecturer he actually used a movie to teach us about chinese language and how some people in china are dedicated to their work. The movie shown is called  杜拉拉升取记 . The movie is about a girl whose looking for a work and got a job at a place called DB she started of as a  lowest ranking secetary  earning about 3000 rmb per month from what my lecturer tell us that it's low and u probably cant survive with that ammount  of earning in beijing . Eventhough her pay is low she did things even though it isint part of her work. We watched the show about half hour through it then the lecturer paused and discussed  with us about the  girl's attidude during work as a topic of our language lesson i can say truthfully this is the 1st time in my life  i have never slept in a chinese lesson becaused it is a very intresting lesson. After a 10min break we had another teacher his a master at Chinese paper cutting art he even brought 2 students learning underhim and one of them is hearing disabled. The student drew Mr Tan and Chua 's chinese name using name art which is drawing thier name using fish and birds.He also taught us how to cut paper art using simple methods that he developed which we have never thought of and im appalled that a person is able to cuz such beautiful art without the use of machinery just a pair of scissors and paper.
Today in my opinion is a very knowledgeable because during  the Chinese language lesson the teacher totally changed my mindset about how chinese is taught because the way he teach is very unique and hereally gets the students attention and gets what his trying to teach through to us to me i feel that it is no a very easy thing to do.I think i can adopt the teachers method of teaching to improve my chinese when im back in singapore for example i could watch a chinese show and brainstorm about it.Another thing i learnt from today is that how a hearing impaired china student is able to draw so well even though he has trouble communicating. Also the  Chinese paper cutting  teacher has taught me a very usefull skill which i can bring back to singapore as a skill i have learnt while in china because it is actually a  way to represent chinese culture in the form of art and this type of skill of paper cutting is very well design so that anyone can pick it up.This is also a very good way in keeping the chinese culture because by keeping the culture lively and entertaining they are able to keep the younger generation to be intrested in keeping the culture eventhough influenced by other cultures brought in by other countries.