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 Asking About Date and Time

The longitudinal mode of Chinese thinking is usually from big to small and from general to specific. This is often shown when people talk about the earliness and lateness of time.

zhōng
guó
rén
de
zòng
xiàng

wéi
mó
shì
shì
cóng
dà
dào
xiǎo

cóng
zǒng

dào
jú
bù

zhè

diǎn
cóng
rén
men
duì
yú
shí
jiān
de
biǎo
dá
jìu
néng
kàn
chū

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  • Text  课文
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mài
kè

jīn
tiān

hào


Mike: What's the date today?

wáng


jīn
tiān
shí

hào


Wang Li: Today is the seventeenth.

mài
kè

míng
tiān
xīng




Mike: What day is tomorrow?

wáng


míng
tiān
xīng




Wang Li: Tomorrow is Sunday.

mài
kè

zuó
tiān
shì
xīng


ma


Mike: Was yesterday Thursday?

wáng


zuó
tiān
bù
shì
xīng



shì
xīng

wǔ


Wang Li: No, yesterday wasn't Thursday, but Friday.

mài
kè


shí
me
shí
hòu
qù
chū
chà


Mike: When will you go on business?

wáng


lìu
yuè
èr
shí
sān
hào


Wang Li: On the twenty-threeth of June.

mài
kè


zài
nā

dāi
duō
cháng
shí
jiān


Mike:  How long will you stay there?

wáng


dà
yuē
liǎng
gè
yuè


Wang Li: About two months.

 

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  • New Words  词语
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hào


date

míng
tiān

tomorrow

zuó
tiān

yesterday

yuè

month

chū
chà

on business

xīng



Monday
xīng

èr

Tuesday

xīng

sān

Wednesday

xīng



Thursday

xīng

wǔ

Friday

xīng

lìu

Saturday

xīng



Sunday

 

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  • Sentence Pattern  句型
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jīn
tiān

hào


    
What's the date today?

   
jīn
tiān
shí

hào


   
Today is the seventeenth.

   
jīn
tiān



hào


   
Today is the ___.

míng
tiān
xīng




What day is tomorrow?


míng
tiān
xīng




Tomorrow is Sunday.

míng
tiān




Tomorrow is ____.



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