Paper-cut designs: describe your choice

How can you describe a design and ask about a step?

Describe designs, consider a partner’s preferences and ask about steps in an imagined paper-cutting workshop.

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Paper-cut designs: describe your choice

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安和朋友参加了剪纸活动。

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Translation and pinyin

An and her friend join a paper-cutting workshop.

Ān hé péngyou cānjiā le jiǎnzhǐ huódòng.

安选了红纸，准备剪一个花的图案。

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Translation and pinyin

An chooses red paper for a flower pattern.

Ān xuǎn le hóng zhǐ, zhǔnbèi jiǎn yī gè huā de tú'àn.

她的朋友选了鸟的图案。

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Translation and pinyin

Her friend chooses a bird pattern.

Tā de péngyou xuǎn le niǎo de tú'àn.

剪以前，安先问应该在哪里折纸。

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Translation and pinyin

Before cutting, An asks where to fold the paper.

Jiǎn yǐqián, Ān xiān wèn yīnggāi zài nǎlǐ zhé zhǐ.

Supporting vocabulary

剪刀 · 剪 · 折 · 图案 · 红色 · 纸 · 花 · 礼物 · 制作 ·

Find evidence in the text

What colour paper does An choose?

What pattern does the friend choose?

Turn the story into an exchange

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Main scenario

Paper-cut designs: describe your choice — start an exchange

An and her friend join a paper-cutting workshop.

How can you describe a design and ask about a step?

A different setting

Paper-cut designs: describe your choice — a changed situation

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Cultural notes and sources

UNESCO’s archive notes that Chinese paper-cut was inscribed on the Representative List in 2009.

Chinese Paper-cut, China (NHK)

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