There’s something peculiar about teaching on a day that feels like it should be a holiday but isn’t.
In France, Christmas means everything stops: shops close, families gather, no one goes to work. But in Beijing? It’s just a regular Thursday. Classes happen, meetings run, life continues as normal. So when I walked into my classroom this week, I decided to bring a little bit of that holiday feeling with me, even if the calendar disagreed.
What happened next was one of those small moments that reminds you why cultural differences make teaching interesting.
You’ll practice the 让 pattern to express making something special, the 不是...而是... structure for contrasting ideas, and result complements like 看到 and 拿出 that show completed actions with specific outcomes.
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Written from Beijing
🎯 HSK Comprehension Test
我为什么戴圣诞帽去教室？
我為什麼戴聖誕帽去教室？因为法国人圣诞节都戴帽子
因為法國人聖誕節都戴帽子因为中国学生喜欢圣诞帽
因為中國學生喜歡聖誕帽因为学校让我戴帽子
因為學校讓我戴帽子因为我想让这一天特别一点儿
因為我想讓這一天特別一點兒
从文章来看，学生们对我的圣诞帽有什么感觉？
從文章來看，學生們對我的聖誕帽有什麼感覺？他们觉得很奇怪
他們覺得很奇怪他们觉得很有意思
他們覺得很有意思他们不太喜欢
他們不太喜歡他们没什么感觉
他們沒什麼感覺
有几个学生做了什么？
有幾個學生做了什麼？他们给我买了礼物
他們給我買了禮物他们也戴了圣诞帽
他們也戴了聖誕帽他们问我很多问题
他們問我很多問題他们把我的照片发到微信上
他們把我的照片發到微信上
我觉得节日重要的是什么？
我覺得節日重要的是什麼？放不放假
放不放假是不是传统节日
是不是傳統節日能不能一起开心
能不能一起開心在哪个国家过
在哪個國家過
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