Basic Grammar: all 87 lessons free
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Checkpoint — 谁, Numbers, 量词, 哪
阶段小结 ② — 谁 · 数字 · 量词 · 哪
Four exercises in, and the first half of the unit closes here. Nine cards, a paragraph, eighteen questions — sixteen opens the road ahead.
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Say the whole phrase, measure word and all
A picture and the English under it. Say the whole thing in Chinese — the number, the measure word and the noun — three misses and it goes into your wrong-answer book, and the card still turns.
a cup of coffee
yì bēi kāfēi
一杯咖啡
a cup of coffee
two bottles of cola
liǎng píng kělè
两瓶可乐
two bottles of cola
a bowl of rice
yì wǎn mǐfàn
一碗米饭
a bowl of rice
three books
sān běn shū
三本书
three books
one dog
yì zhī gǒu
一只狗
one dog
two pieces of clothing
liǎng jiàn yīfu
两件衣服
two pieces of clothing
three photos
sān zhāng zhàopiàn
三张照片
three photos
one teacher
yí wèi lǎoshī
一位老师
one teacher
two pairs of trousers
liǎng tiáo kùzi
两条裤子
two pairs of trousers
Read this — everything in it is yours
Six lines. 谁, a price, a measure word and 哪, all in one short exchange.
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The halfway test
Paper A of 3Eighteen questions on the unit so far. Sixteen right to pass — a miss hands you a different paper, not the same one again.
- 1
一____咖啡
yì ____ kāfēi
a cup of coffee
- 2
两____可乐
liǎng ____ kělè
two bottles of cola
- 3
一____米饭
yì ____ mǐfàn
a bowl of rice
- 4
三____书
sān ____ shū
three books
- 5
一____狗
yì ____ gǒu
one dog
- 6
两____衣服
liǎng ____ yīfu
two pieces of clothing
- 7
____是你的中文老师？
____ shì nǐ de Zhōngwén lǎoshī?
Who is your Chinese teacher?
- 8
45 = 四____五
sì ____ wǔ
45
- 9
2000 = ____千
____ qiān
2,000
- 10
309 = 三百____九
sānbǎi ____ jiǔ
309
- 11
两____咖啡
liǎng ____ kāfēi
two cups of coffee — which is right?
- 12
十 = ____
shí
What does it mean?
- 13
百 = ____
bǎi
What does it mean?
- 14
位 = ____
wèi
What does it mean?
- 15
What is being asked?
- 16
How much is the water?
- 17
Which answer fits?
- 18
Your turn — say it
三百四十五
345
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Words 生词
Characters 汉字
Before you go课后回顾
- Which cards went into your book? Those are the five minutes at the start of our next class.
- Count five things around you out loud, with the measure word and a number.
- You can now ask who, what, which, and how much. That is most of a conversation in a shop.