Basic Grammar: all 87 lessons free
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Checkpoint — How Many, Done, How, Can
阶段小结 ③ — 几多少 · 了 · 怎么 · 会能可以
Four exercises banked: asking amounts, reporting what happened, asking how, and three kinds of can. Cards, one story, eighteen questions.
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beer
píjiǔ
啤酒
beer
coffee
kāfēi
咖啡
coffee
count them — number, measure word, noun
sān běn shū
三本书
three books
trousers
kùzi
裤子
trousers
count the clothes
liǎng jiàn yīfu
两件衣服
two items of clothing
what she is doing all day
shàngbān
上班
to work / go to work
the 打 action, not the object
dǎ diànhuà
打电话
to make a phone call
hotpot
huǒguō
火锅
hotpot
the verb
chīfàn
吃饭
to eat (a meal)
Read this — every word is one you know
Jane reports her day using all four lessons at once. Listen for where every 了 sits before you look.
Tap any line to hear it
The checkpoint test
Paper A of 3Eighteen questions across the four lessons. Sixteen to pass — and a miss hands you a different paper, not the same one again.
- 1
这是____。
Zhè shì ____.
This is ____.
- 2
这是____。
Zhè shì ____.
This is ____.
- 3
这是____。
Zhè shì ____.
This is ____.
- 4
你有____只狗？
Nǐ yǒu ____ zhī gǒu?
How many dogs do you have?
- 5
这条裤子____钱？
Zhè tiáo kùzi ____ qián?
How much are these trousers?
- 6
我昨天吃____两碗米饭。
Wǒ zuótiān chī ____ liǎng wǎn mǐfàn.
I ate two bowls of rice yesterday.
- 7
我们周末去看电影____。
Wǒmen zhōumò qù kàn diànyǐng ____.
We went to see a movie at the weekend.
- 8
我昨天____喝啤酒。
Wǒ zuótiān ____ hē píjiǔ.
I didn't drink beer yesterday.
- 9
“Movie”的中文怎么____？
“Movie” de Zhōngwén zěnme ____?
How do you say “movie” in Chinese?
- 10
我没带护照，怎么____？
Wǒ méi dài hùzhào, zěnme ____?
I didn't bring my passport — what do I do?
- 11
我____开车，但是我喝酒了，不能开车。
Wǒ ____ kāi chē, dànshì wǒ hē jiǔ le, bù néng kāi chē.
I know how to drive, but I've been drinking — I can't drive.
- 12
我____坐这里吗？
Wǒ ____ zuò zhèlǐ ma?
May I sit here?
- 13
岁 = ____
suì
What does this character mean?
- 14
了 = ____
le
Where does this character come from?
- 15
Which reply fits?
- 16
Who is being asked?
- 17
As a skill — can he swim?
- 18
Your turn — say it
这个多少钱？
How much is this one?
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Words 生词
Characters 汉字
Before you go课后回顾
- Tell someone what you actually did yesterday — one general 了 at the end, one counted 了 after the verb. Both in the same breath if you can.
- Which flashcards went into your wrong-answer book? Those words open our next class.
- The next stage starts with dates and wishes — 你的生日是几月几号 is waiting for you.