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Lesson 11 of 15
What Time Is It?
Tell the time, talk about a plan for the movies, and say where you live
What you'll learn
- Ask and tell the time using 点
- Say when something happens with 什么时候 and 的时候
- Say where you live with 住在
- Talk about a shared plan using 我们
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Lesson phases
- Dialogue
- Grammar
- Practice exercises
- Writing practice
- Speaking practice
New words in this lesson
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Writing characters
Where these characters come from
在
A sprout pushing through earth: to be there, to exist.
中
A pole through the centre of an enclosure: the middle.
午
A pestle; borrowed for the middle of the day.
回
One enclosure inside another, drawn as a spiral: to go back.
我
A weapon with a toothed edge; borrowed for the pronoun 'I'.
电
Lightning streaking out of a cloud — now electricity.
Sentence patterns
Telling the time
| Hour | 点 | Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| 十二 | 点 | |
| 十二 | 点 | 五分 |
| 三 | 点 | 十分 |
Hour then 点, then the minutes — biggest unit first, as always in Chinese.