14/1/2010 1:30 – 3:00

1. We are being kept in a limbo.
   maternal(paternal) grand parents
   maternity(paternity) leave
   comfinement
2. home province
   Single: She is a spinster.
   Qian is a bachelor.
   USA:bachelor girl
   a big extended family.
   She comes from a small nuclear family.
   separate up
   siblings
   I have one child.(not kid – talk word)
3. The minimium age for marriage is … for man…and for woman.
4. Many children are born out of wedlock.
   They are known as illegitimate children.
   eighteen    forty – sixty      sixty-one +
   youth adult middle age    old age
   senior citizen
   teenage: 14 – 18
   teenager
   The event is for those in their teens and twenties.
   toddler: 2 years old
   infant
5. wok force ,labour force
   Chinese year is around the corner(coming on)
6. How do you communicate with other people?
   Deaf and dumb people communicate by using sign language.
   electronic greeting cards
   parcels courier
   valuable documents
   surface mail registered mail
   container mail
   You send bulky things by container.
7. Do you have been to China?
8. The post office provides a range of services.
   remit money
   send your remittances to other contries
9. Do you want anything else?
   Would do you like anything else?ispensation
   Is anybody else coming with you?
   Nobody else?
   dispensation