Narrative Video

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Divorce? 离婚?

Features: 

(Movie in MP4/M4v format; 5’09”) 

A mini-drama in three parts about a Chinese couple’s marriage, their dreams and values.  
Dialogues, emotions,  open-ending.  

Can be used for:.. 
(Upper-intermediate to advanced levels)

providing cultural exposure
discussing cultural perspectives
debating on social issues and values  
teaching speech act verbs
training and practicing narration and  description skills
collaborative project for creative writing      and oral presentation  


Script and Sample Lesson Plans (PDF)
zhangNi01_linhun_jiaoan_web.pdf



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Written by Phyllis Zhang

Actors: Liyan Han and Yiqing Liu

Camera by Tiefei Ma and Xiaojing Zhang

Video editing by Phyllis Zhang

© Copyright Phyllis Zhang. All rights reserved.

Classroom use permitted.  

In this segment 个短片的是:

Seeing him idling away his time, she persuaded him to start a business of his own, so he did. Two years later....

丈夫每天下班后没事可干,跟孩子打游机消磨时间。妻子劝说丈夫出去展事,丈夫同意试试看。两年以后......