Research Module on Time and Dates, Tape 2
On this tape, you'll learn how to give a complete date, including the year.
Two ways to say the days of the week and expressions combining the words last, this, and next with the words month, week, and year.
As you learn to the numbers module, years are given as just the individual digits.
What you need to know is how to fit the year into the date.
In general,Chinese expresses the largest unit of time first and progresses to the smallest.
Listen to July 4, 1976.
1976年7月4號.
1976年7月4號.
Repeat 1976.
1976年.
1976年.
Repeat July 4, 1976.
1976年7月4號.
1976年7月4號.
Now turn to display one for tape 2 in your workbook.
Look at the dates while the listening to the speakers say each one.
Number one.
1732年2月22號.
Number two.
1776年7月4號.
Number three.
1863年1月1號.
Number four.
125年6月15號.
Number five.
1945年5月8號.
Number six.
1939年4月7號.
Now repeat the first date.
February 22, 1732.
1732年2月22號.
1732年2月22號.
Repeat the second date, July 4, 1776.
1776年7月4號.
1776年7月4號.
Now repeat January 1st, 1863.
1863年1月1號.
1863年1月1號.
Try saying the next one ahead of the speaker.
June 15th, 1215年.
1215年6月15號.
Try saying May 8, 1945 ahead of the speaker.
1945年5月8號.
Try saying April 7, 1939 ahead of the speaker.
1939年4月7號.
How do you say February 22, 1732?
1732年2月22號.
How do you say July 4, 1776?
1776年7月4號.
And how do you say January 1st, 1863?
1863年1月1號.
Now here's how you say this year.
今年.
Repeat the word for this year after the speaker.
今年.
Here's the phrase for this year is 1976.
今年是1976年.
Repeat this year is 1976.
今年是1976年.
今年是1976年.
The second word, sure, is the verb to be.
Of course, you recognize the last word in the sentence as the word for year.
年.
Again, repeat this year is 1976.
今年是1976年.
今年是1976年.
If you wanted to say last year, you would say 去年.
Repeat the word for last year.
去年.
去年.
What does this sentence mean?
去年是1975年.
Last year was 1975.
Repeat the sentence after the speaker.
去年是1975年.
去年是1975年.
The word for next year is 明年.
Repeat next year after the speaker.
明年.
How would you say next year is 1977.
明年是1977年.
What's the word for this year?
去年.
And the word for last year?
去年.
How do you say last year was 1975.
去年是1975年.
Look at the display too in your workbook now.
Box one.
How would you say this year is 1926.
去年是1926年.
According to box one, what was last year?
去年是1925年.
What's next year?
明年是1927年.
Now look at box two.
What year is this?
去年是1961年.
What will next year be?
明年是1962年.
And what was last year?
明年是1960年.
Now look at box three.
What's next year?
No confirmation is given here.
Check with your teacher for the correct answers.
What was last year?
And what's this year?
Now let's look at the days of the week.
Listen to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
星期一,星期二,星期三.
Repeat Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
星期一,星期二,星期三.
星期一,星期二,星期三.
Notice that the days of the week are numbered just as were the months of the year.
Repeat Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
星期四,星期五,星期六.
星期四,星期五,星期六.
Now listen to the name for Sunday.
星期天,repeat Sunday.
星期天,星期天.
For Sunday is not expressed with the number seven at the end as you might expect.
Instead the word 天 is added.
Say the names of the days one at a time after the speaker starting with the word for Monday.
星期一,星期二,星期三,星期四,星期五.
星期六,星期天.
Again,星期一,星期二,星期三,星期四,星期五.
星期六,星期天.
Now turn to exercise one in the workbook.
The days of the week are given in English.
Number them according to the order in which you hear the speaker say them.
Number one,星期二.
Number two,星期六.
Number three,星期一.
Number four,星期天.
Number five,星期五.
Number six,星期四.
Number seven,星期三.
The answers are in your workbook.
Another way to give the days of the week uses the word 禮拜 instead of 星期.
Listen.
禮拜一,禮拜二,禮拜三,禮拜四,禮拜五,禮拜六,禮拜天.
Now repeat them.
禮拜一,禮拜二,禮拜三,禮拜四,禮拜五,
禮拜六,禮拜天.
Again,禮拜一,禮拜二,禮拜三,禮拜四,禮拜五,禮拜六,禮拜天.
Now find exercise two in your workbook.
Circle the day of the week that you hear the speaker say.
Number one,禮拜二.
Number two,禮拜五.
Number three,禮拜天.
Number four,禮拜四.
Number five,星期四.
Number six,星期六.
Number seven,星期一.
Number eight,星期三.
If you want to know what day of the week today is, you ask 今天禮拜幾 or 今天星期幾.
Repeat after the speaker.
What day is today?
今天禮拜幾.
Now repeat the other phrase.
今天星期幾.
How do you say, what day of the week is it?
今天星期幾.
Answer this next question.
今天星期几.
The word for tomorrow is 明天.
Repeat tomorrow 明天.
Try answering this question.
明天星期几.
Can you answer this question? Try.
明天幾號.
The word for yesterday is 昨天.
Repeat the word for yesterday after the speaker. 昨天.
Here's another question you should be able to answer. 昨天星期几.
Try answering this one too. 昨天幾號.
Now turn to display three in your workbook.
Before we start the next exercise, you need to make three circles on the diagrams.
First, circle Thursday the seventh in row one.
In row two, circle Tuesday the fourteenth.
In row three, circle Friday the twenty-fifth.
Now answer the following questions according to the information in the diagram.
The circle day represents the present point in time.
The correct answer is given on the tape.
For example, look at box one.
今天星期几.
今天星期四.
今天几号.
今天几号.
Now you try it.
Start with box one again.
今天星期几.
今天星期四.
今天几号.
今天几号.
这个月是几月.
几月是三月.
明天几号.
明天八号.
明天礼拜几.
明天礼拜五.
Now box two.
昨天星期几.
昨天星期一.
今天星期几.
今天星期二.
昨天几号.
昨天十三号.
今天几号.
今天十四号.
这个月是几月.
这个月是八月.
Now box three.
明天星期几.
明天星期六.
今天星期几.
今天星期五.
昨天星期几.
昨天星期四.
明天几号.
明天二十六号.
昨天几号.
昨天二十四号.
Now listen to the word for to work.
工作.
Repeat to work after the speaker.
工作.
工作.
To say didn't work, you say 没工作.
To say he didn't work, you would say 他没工作.
他没工作.
Repeat the expression he didn't work. 他没工作.
他没工作.
Listen to he didn't work last year. 他去年没工作.
他去年没工作.
Say he didn't work last year ahead of the speaker and then repeat.
他去年没工作.
他去年没工作.
How would you say he didn't work yesterday?
他昨天没工作.
How would you say he didn't work Saturday?
他星期六没工作.
Here's how you say he didn't work last week.
他上个星期没工作.
Repeat the phrase for last week.
上个星期.
上个星期.
Now repeat the phrase for he didn't work last week after the speaker.
他上个星期没工作.
他上个星期没工作.
Now listen to this sentence.
他今天不去.
It means he won't go today.
Repeat the sentence after the speaker.
他今天不去.
Repeat he won't go tomorrow.
他明天不去.
Listen to this sentence.
他下个星期不去.
Repeat the phrase for next week.
下个星期.
Repeat he isn't going next week.
他下个星期不去.
Repeat this week.
下个星期.
Repeat he isn't going this week.
他下个星期不去.
Try saying it ahead of the speaker.
He isn't going this week.
他这个星期不去.
What's the phrase for next week?
下个星期.
How do you say he isn't going next week?
他下个星期不去.
Now try saying the following expressions ahead of the speaker and repeat after.
He didn't work yesterday.
他昨天没工作.
He didn't work last week.
他上个星期没工作.
He's not going next year.
他明年不去.
He's not going next week.
他下个星期不去.
He's not going this week.
他这个星期不去.
Now here's a quick vocabulary review.
Put the following words and phrases into Chinese.
This week.
这个星期.
This year.
今年.
Today.
今天.
Last week.
上个星期.
Last year.
明年.
明天.
This is the end of the tape and a time and date resource module tape 2.
That's all for today.
This is the end of the tape and a time and date resource module tape 2.
That's all for today.
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