Make a Movie 院
KEYWORD:
Inst. （Institute)
Pinyin:
yuàn
Actor:
yu- God
Set:
-an
Room within Set:
Bathroom or Backyard
Prop(s):
阝(Brick Wall)
完 (Finish Line -OR- Checkered Flag)
Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Georg Lohrer
Janus (the bi-headed god) is in a great hurry. He has received a celestial order. In the bathroom of the "an"-set, he has to build an INSTITUTE to educate the correct visit of the toilet. He already has started to raise a small stone-wall. If all goes well, he wants to be finished in the evening. If so, it will be time to wave the checkered flag outside the bathroom - mission accomplished.
MB Team
This is where Luke & Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_fctigPYgs&list=PL_T_LpTzhQ1ihGzQaTSeYEvr8_jmImnO-&index=95&t=3806s
Della Fuller
Queen Elizabeth is in the walled backyard of my "an" location, holding a checkered flag. She is waiting for a scientist from one of the INSTITUTES of epidemiology to run through the opening in the brick wall with the vaccine for Covid-19 so that she can wave the flag and declare that INSTITUTE the winner.
Image credit: CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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- The Basics - Why Does This Method Work?
- How our Pinyin Chart is Different
- What are Chinese Characters?
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- Inspiration for Scripts
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- Habit Building Part 3 - Reward
- Habit Building Part 4 - Belief
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PHASE 2 (Levels 7-12)
- Understanding Chinese Words - Morphemes
- The Six Steps to Learning Words
- 3 Questions About Words
- Top-Down & Bottom-Up Learning
Living Links Series
Word Structure Series
- Part 1 - What are Chinese Words?
- Part 2 - Verb-What 述宾式
- Part 3 - Verb-How 补充式
- Part 4 - Biased 偏正式
- Part 5 - Parallel 并列式
- Part 6 - Duplicated 重叠式
- Part 7 - Subject-Predicate 主谓式
- Part 8 - Affixed 附加式
PHASE 3 (Levels 13-20)
- The Basic Chinese Sentence
- Helper - Expressing Possession with 的
- Helper - When You Can Omit 的
- Helper - Completed Actions with 了
- Helper - Change of State with 了
- Helper - Present Actions with 着
- Connector - Saying 'But' with 但是 - 可是 - 不过
- Connector - Reasons & Actions with 因为..., 所以...
- Connector - Conditional "If-Then" Statements with 如果..., 就
- Connector - Conditional "If-Then" Statements with 要是...的话
- Connector - "Or" in Questions with 还是
- Connector - “Or" in Statements with 或/或者
- Relator - Using 为 to Express "For"
- Relator - Expressing "From" with 从
- Relator - Expressing Location with 在
- Special - Using 在 as a Verb
- Tone - Softening Tone of Voice with 呢
- “How Does What" - Adverbs of Denial
- “How Does What" - Adverbs of Degree
PHASE 4 (Levels 21-30)
Level 21
- Transferring Money by Smartphone or Bank
- Walk in the Park?! I Have 汉字 to Study!
- Who Determine's a Baby's Looks, Mom or Dad?
Level 22
- How Many Pages of the Book Have You Read?
- Many People Don't Want to Have Babies
- My Girlfriend Can Really Eat!
- What Do You Like to Do?
- What Method Works for Learning Chinese?
Level 23
- Eating Bread
- I Met My Girlfriend in the Park
- Something is Different About My Dog Lately
- The Older Brother is Better Than the Younger Brother
- The Right and Left Side of the Office
- Three Meals a Day
Level 24
- Annoying People
- Breaking Up at the End of the Date
- Going on a Date
- My Two Friends and I
- Overtime at Work
- Red Packets
- Two People in a Relationship
Level 25
- I Want to Find a Boyfriend Too
- My Dad and I
- My Dog Chouchou
- The Big Changes of China
- The Weather is Great, Let's Go to the Park!
- Xiaomei and Her Boyfriend's Day
Level 26
Level 27
- American Journalist Studies Chinese in China
- Can I Still Learn Chinese Anymore?
- Should I Change?
- Children and Their Parents
- Foreigner's Opinion of China
- What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Level 28
- Daughter & Mother
- Son's Eighth Birthday
- Study, Work & Life
- What's More Important, Looks, or Ability?
Level 29
- Advertisements
- Buying Tickets at Chinese New Year
- Everybody Restaurant
- How Does One Progress
- Son is Out of Control
Level 30
- Cars, Bicycles & Trains
- Potatoes & Beef
- Two Ladies Compare Who's Got it Better
- Young People Raising Cats and Dogs
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Francislainy Campos
Eve is trying to finish her house. She's done the roof first and is now decorating the bathroom and have the wall on the right hand side with many butterfly pictures. She is using the skills she's learned with my aunt at the code institute.
Ceri Woods
As soon as I saw the abbreviation 'inst' I made a little beatbox noise to myself, laughed, then had to use it in my scene:
Baby Groot (yu) is learning to beatbox in my 'an' location's bathroom, using an empty ramen cup (完) as a microphone. He waves his little hand around going INST INST INST into his ramen cup microphone, dancing on the side of the bath, when a butterfly (阝 ) flies in. Baby Groot jumps in surprise and falls backwards into the bath, landing in a pile with the cup. The butterfly flutters on to his left shoulder and suddenly a loud voice booms out of it into Baby Groot's ear: "The INSTITUTION of beatboxing would like to welcome you to attend our beginner's course tomorrow!" Groot blinks in surprise then fist pumps the air with a little "inst!"
Joel Fortin
Actor: yu- Uhura (instead of using Gods, I use Star Trek characters)
Props: 阝brass knuckles; 完 checkered flag
Two men in black suits walk in the back yard of my -an set where Lieutenant Uhura is sitting. As soon as she sees them, she jumps to her feet and takes out a pair of brass knuckles to defend herself. One of the men quickly takes out a checkered flag and waves it. His buddy looks at him and says "That's the wrong flag you idiot! It's the white flag that's the sign of peace!" "Oops!" Then He turns to Uhura and says "We're from a secret government INSTITUTE and we need your expertise to decipher an alien message we received." Uhura puts her brass knuckles away and agrees to follow them to the INSTITUTE.