Chinese IA high school
Lesson 60 writing review
Using the different months and days of the week, create ten sentences in pinyin (with numbers serving as
tone marks hao3...). Use the building blocks below to help you create your sentences. (25 points)
Building blocks:
yīnggāi 应该
should
kěyǐ 可以
can / able
bù xíng 不行
no / that won’t do
kòng 空
free time / space
Shénme shíhou? 什么时候? when?
gōngzuò 工作
work
hǎibiān 海边
beach
bǎolíngqiú 保龄球
bowling
wán(r) 玩儿
play / have fun
dànshì 但是
but
yìxiē 一些
some
dǎsuàn 打算
to plan, plans
yīqǐ 一起
together
shì 事
thing as in an inanimate object
shēngrì 生日
birthday
How to do well in this writing assignment?
You will always start to write subject first then time phrase and a complement at the
end. All the following pronouns can be a subject in the sentence. You can also see
the following sentences of lesson for your reference. You can copy the sentence
pattern and just change different subject and time phrase to make your own
sentences that will be fine. Please try very hard for this writing task. Thank you.
Pronoun and family member
我(wǒ – I); 你(nǐ – you); 他(tā – he); 她(tā – she)
爸爸(bà ba - father) ; 妈妈(mā ma - mother)
哥哥(gē ge – older brother); 姐姐(jiě jie – older sister)
弟弟(dì di – younger brother); 妹妹(mèi mei– younger sister)
Time phrases:
星期一(xīng qí yī – Monday)；星期二(xīng qí èr – Tuesday) ；
星期三(xīng qí sān – Wednesday)；星期四(xīng qí sì – Thursday)；
星期五(xīng qí wǔ – Friday)；星期六(xīng qí liù – Saturday)；星期天(xīng qí tiān - Sunday)
今天(jīn tiān – today)；明天(míng tiān – tomorrow)；昨天(zuó tiān – yesterday)；
后天(hòu tiān – the day after tomorrow)；前天(qián tiān – the day before yesterday)
Example 1
Nǐ de shēng rì shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào?
你的生日几月几号？
Wǒ de shēngrì shì sān yuè èrshí hào.
我的生日是三月二十号。
Example 2
Nǐ xìage yuè dǎsuàn zuò shénme?
你下个月打算做什么？
Wǒ xìage yuè dǎsuàn qù hǎibiān wán(r).
我下个月打算去海边玩儿。
Example 3
Nǐ xiàge xīngqī wǔ yǒu kòng ma?
你下个星期五有空吗？
(Literal translation) Your birthday is which month,
which day?
My birthday is March 20th.
What are your plans for next month?
Next month, I plan to go to the beach to play.
Do you have free time next Friday?
Wǒ xiàge xīngqī wǔ yào gōngzuò, dànshì wǒ xīngqī
liù xīngqī rì méi shì.
I have to work next Friday, but I have nothing
Saturday and Sunday.
我下个星期五要工作，但是我星期六星期日没事。
Example 4
Wǒ hé yìxiē péngyǒu yào qù wán(r) bǎolíngqiú, nǐ
xiǎng yīqǐ qù ma?
我和一些朋友要去玩儿保龄球，你想一起去吗？
Shénme shíhou?
什么时候？
Jīntiān huò míngtiān, kàn nǐ shénme shíhou yǒu
kòng.
今天或明天，看你什么时候有空。
Míngtiān bù xíng, dàn jīntiān yīnggāi kěyǐ.
明天不行，但今天应该可以。
I’m going bowling with some friends, would you
like to come?
When?
Today or tomorrow, it's up to you when you have
time.
Tomorrow is no good, but today I should be able to
go.
Grammar note:
Normally time phrases will be right after subject or in the beginning of the sentence.
For example:
你下个星期五有空吗？
Subject 你; Time phrase: 下个星期五 Complement: 有空吗
你 you ; 下个星期五 next Friday ; 有空 free time;吗 a question ending word