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KEYWORD:
Far Away
Pinyin:
yuǎn
Actor:
yu- God
Set:
-an
Room within Set:
Bedroom or Living Room
Prop(s):
元 (Adam & Eve)
辶 (Road -OR- Red Carpet)
Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Della Fuller
Queen Elizabeth is standing in my sister's livingroom (an set) in front of a podium, holding a gold medal, looking out the large window down the road. FAR AWAY in the distance, she can just see the Olympic marathon runners just coming into view, the crowd cheering. She sighs, they are so FAR AWAY, that she is going to be standing there a long time....
Abigail
-an set - the lecture hall of a school I went to in Australia (one of my friends there was called Anna)
yu actor - Queen Elizabeth II
Props:
元 Zbyszek (one of my English students, who struggles with 'in/at the beginning')
辶 red carpet
Zbyszek patiently waits his turn to walk up the red carpet to ask the Queen a question. He asks why she is so FAR AWAY from England!MB Team
Here's the link to where Phil & Luke talked about this comment in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM4OjRyCeYM&t=3849s
Ija
Star Wars - Episode 1
Actor : Yoda
Set : My ANatomy lab
Props : Anakin Skywalker, red carpet
Yoda entered the learning suite of my anatomy lab, inviting Anakin Skywalker to join the force in a galaxy FAR FAR AWAY. Both of them then proceeded to walk on the red carpet towards Yoda's starfighter.Mandarin Blueprint
Here's the link to where Phil & Luke talked about this comment in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast: https://youtu.be/yRUKOhbi0uk?t=2307
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Level 21
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- Who Determine's a Baby's Looks, Mom or Dad?
Level 22
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- What Do You Like to Do?
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Level 23
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- Three Meals a Day
Level 24
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- My Dog Chouchou
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Luke Eberhard
Freya (Norse God of Love and Fertility) is in the Common Room of my AN set. She exclaims to the fellow students there that her place is FAR AWAY, but the student don't know 'How Far'? Then Freya pulls out a RED CARPET that rises out the window as the carpet is connected to the Bifrost Rainbow Bridge (the ways Norse Gods travel) and pulls of a GREEN FLAG indicating the bridge is safe to travel very long distances (Across Worlds Actually).
Jerod Cox
Hey Phil and Luke,
I actually did a similar movie scene before I listened to this lesson, but I stopped before I listened to this b/c I needed to put this in a room in my AN set. I think that she had it in the Lab so that takes care of the Tone; thoughts? Thank you again for this awesome and super fun way of learning Mandarin.
Shalom,
Jerod
Mandarin Blueprint
Hey Jerod. Is your set a hospital or research center? If so then you can assign rooms to any tone you like really, as there aren't living rooms/bedrooms/etc. All examples scenes should be used as a general guide or source of inspiration. Just take what you need from them and apply it to your own sets/actors/props.