Standard Chinese, a modular approach, resource module on time and dates, Tape 4.
On this tape, you'll learn some additional ways to express time, plus how to say the equivalent of am and pm.
You'll also practice putting date and time expressions into sentences.
To begin, we'll review some phrases by using them in sentences.
The word for to arrive is 到, repeat, he arrives at five o'clock.
他五点钟到,他五点钟到.
Repeat, he arrives at six thirty.
他六点半到,他六点半到.
How would you say he arrives at eight fifteen?
他八点一克到.
Now repeat, he arrives on Wednesday at nine fifteen.
他星期三九点一克到,他星期三九点一克到.
Here's the word for airplane.
飞机.
Repeat, the plane arrives at ten twenty.
飞机十点二十分到.
Now listen to the plane arrived at seven ten.
飞机是七点十分到的.
Repeat, the plane arrived at seven ten.
飞机是七点十分到的.
The sure-do construction is used to indicate a past action when the focus is on some quality of the action, not whether the action did or did not take place.
Here we're interested in the time an action took place, so we use the sure-do construction.
For more information on the sure-do construction, take a look at the reference notes for unit five of the biographic information module.
Now repeat, he arrived last month.
他是上个月到的.
How would you say he arrived last week?
他是上个星期到的.
The verb to leave is 走.
Repeat to leave. 走.
Repeat, he's leaving next year. 他明年走.
Repeat, he's leaving tomorrow at eleven fifty. 他明天十一点五十分走.
A more complete way to express the times past the hour is to use the word to pass 过.
What time is this? 四点过一刻.
A quarter past four. 四点过一刻.
Repeat, three quarters past four. 四点过三刻.
Put the following times into English. 九点过三刻.
Three quarters past nine. 十点过一刻.
A quarter past ten. 两点过二十五分.
Twenty-five minutes past two. How do you say a quarter past three? 三点过一刻.
How do you say three quarters past seven? 七点过三刻.
How do you say forty minutes past ten? 十点过四十分.
十点过四十分.
Time before the hour, as in phrases such as a quarter before five, can be expressed using the verb 叉 to lack. Repeat to lack. 叉.
Repeat, a quarter before five. 五点叉一刻.
五点叉一刻.
In the same way, time before the hour is more completely expressed by using 叉 to lack.
With 叉, you can say it's so many minutes before such and such an hour. What are these times? 叉一刻三点.
A quarter before three. 三点叉一刻.
A quarter before three. 叉八分九点.
Eight minutes before nine. 九点叉八分.
Eight minutes before nine. 八分九点.
Repeat the following phrases after the speaker. 十点过十分.
6分钟前5分
差6分5点
15分钟前12分
12点过15分
1分钟前1分
差1颗1点
1分钟前2分
2点过1颗
10分钟前11分
11点过10分
10分钟前5分
1分钟前1分
2分钟前5分
6点钟前5分
8点5分
7点3颗
7点20分
8点3颗
9点11分
1分钟前1分
6点1颗
6点15分
3点10分
9点20分
4点30分
1点17分
6点5分
2点
1点
差15分4点
差1颗4点
2点
差10分2点
3点
差20分12点
4点
差14分10点
5点
差5分8点
6点
差1分1点
6点
早上
上午
10点
早上
上午
4点
夜里
6点
夜里
早上
8点
早上
12点
夜里
中午
下午
晚上
Repeat this word for evening.
晚上
Now while you're looking at the p.m. clock,
I'll give you some times in English,
you give the Chinese name for the period of the day in which they fall.
2 p.m.
下午
12 p.m.
中午
8 p.m.
晚上
4 p.m.
下午
9 p.m.
晚上
1 p.m.
下午
In Chinese,the period of day precedes the hour expression.
For example,here's how you would say 3 a.m.
夜裡3點鐘
Repeat 3 a.m.
夜裡3點鐘
Repeat 7 a.m.
早晨7點鐘
Repeat 10 p.m.
晚上10點半
Now turn to exercise 2 in your workbook.
In exercise 2,write in digits plus the abbreviation a.m. or p.m.
the time expressed in the following.
Number 1
下午2點
2
上午10點1課
Number 3
中午12點半
Number 4
晚上9點3課
Number 5
夜裡5點
Number 6
早晨6點25分
Number 7
晚上差10分9點
Number 8
夜裡差10分12點
Number 9
上午11點5分
Now what time is this?
中午12點半
半夜
Repeat midnight
半夜
半夜 is not used for fractions of the midnight hour.
12 30 midnight would be
夜裡12點半
Repeat 12 30 midnight
夜裡12點半
Let's review the material you've learned in this module.
Turn to exercise 3 in your workbook.
For each item, circle the correct answer.
Number 1
去年2月
Number 2
今年4月
Number 3
今年7月
Number 4
下月9號
Number 5
上月20號
Number 6
這個星期二
Number 7
下星期三
Number 8
8月6號
Number 9
1月21號
Number 10
6月8號
Now look at display 4.
Read the times on the clocks out loud.
Times past the half hour, use expressions with trot.
A
夜裡4點半
B
夜裡11點10分
C
夜裡差一刻3點
Or
夜裡差15分3點
D
晚上差5分8點
E
晚上6點半
F
早上10點25分
Or
上午10點25分
G
下午差10分4點
H
中午
This is the end of the tape.
Times and dates resource module tape 4.