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Find out your priorities, how you view life and love, and what type of people are in your life, with this quiz, another byproduct of teaching. (This is a great activity for older students and fun for adults, too!)

1. Arrange these animals from most (#1) to least (#5) preferred:
Cow/Tiger/Sheep/Horse/Monkey
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

2. Write one word to describe each of these—
Dog:
Cat:
Rat:
Coffee:
Ocean:

3. Who reminds you of each of these colors? Write a name of someone you know—
Yellow:
Orange:
Red:
White:
Green:

FIND THE MEANING OF YOUR ANSWERS BELOW!!
FIND THE MEANING OF YOUR ANSWERS BELOW!!
FIND THE MEANING OF YOUR ANSWERS BELOW!!
FIND THE MEANING OF YOUR ANSWERS BELOW!!
FIND THE MEANING OF YOUR ANSWERS BELOW!!

1. Where are your priorities?
Cow = career
Sheep = love
Monkey = money
Tiger = pride
Horse = family

2. What’s your view on personalities, life and love?
Dog = your own personality
Cat = your partner’s personality
Rat = your enemy’s personality
Coffee = how you view love
Ocean = how you view your own life

3. What type of people are in your life?
Yellow=someone who will never forget you
Orange =a true friend
Red = someone you love
White = your soul mate
Green = someone you will always remember

Living among Chinese-speaking Taiwanese for a year left me with these ten—and at least ten more—useful phrases, which I’m able to pronounce correctly and naturally after hearing them daily.

Click on the links to hear audio, but I think my extremely accurate academic phonetics in quotes should suffice!

1. THANK YOU—“She A she A”

2. I LOVE YOU—”Woah eye knee”

3. STREET—”Lou”

4. GOOD/OK—”How”, which you often hear repeated rapidly the way we say “Good, good, good”

5. YES—”Do aye”, same goes for this one—say it five times fast—you’ll sound fluent!

6. I DON’T UNDERSTAND—“Tieng Boo Dong”

7. I/ME—”Woah”

8. YOU—”Knee”

9. HELLO—“Knee how” in person, or, if you’re answering the phone, “Waaaaaaaay?”

10. WHERE—”Nah Lee?”