Chinese 2 Final Projects

Final Project: with your group, you are to pick one of the following topics and do a final project.

1. Renting an apartment in Beijing:

   Setting: you are going spend a semester in Beijing as part of your study-abroad program. Since you have your own apartment in NYC, you want to do a " apartment exchange" with a student from Beijing. One of your teammate is the student from China who has an apartment to rent in Beijing. Mrs. Gao is the realtor agent who can help you evaluate whether this is a good match for each one of you.

   Task:

    1. You need to develop two brochures introducing your apartments, one for Beijing near Beijing University,  one for New York city, near New York University. It must include:

• Location of the apartment and settings.
• Ways of transportation to major facilities, such as school, stores, library, hospital, theater, swimming pool, gym, park and airport.
• Layout of your apartment inside with supporting pictures
•  Rental cost and coverage. 
• Direction to go to five of the most famous sightseeing places in both places. 

2. Travel planning

In the summer, you and your family are going to make a month-long travel around the world.

Dates: July 1- July 31, 2013

Itinerary: in whatever order you like, you will cover at least 10 countries around the world.

Requirement: write a travel journal of your trip, which needs to include:

• Weather of the day
• Sample schedule of your day.
• Major sightseeing you have seen in each country
• Famous food items in each place.

3. Shopping

Setting: you own  a store selling clothes Beijing, Hou Hai district. You need to design a catalog about your merchandises with different categories: top, bottom, skirts etc...You need to include:

• color choice
• price range
• suitable group
• discount offers if any
• how to get to your store from airport and train station

4. Performance 

You have learned some Chinese songs, such as 爱我你就抱抱我，浪花一朵朵，对面的女孩儿看过来，月亮代表我的心。You can learn them well and perform them out,either individually or with a small group. Or, you can translate a popular English song into Chinese and perform it out.

Helpful resources:

1.       Dictionary: mdbg.net  ; nciku.com 。 Don’t use automatic Google Translator

2.        For map of China, go to baidu.com, then click 地图（map）, then you can see different city maps and road map.