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Resource Module on Time and Date, Tape 1.
This module will teach you how to give the date, the day of the week, including expressions such as next week, next month, last week or last month, and how to tell time using the hours and minutes of the clock and the parts of the day.
You will also learn how to ask for such information.
Before studying this module, you should have completed the pronunciation and romanization module and the numbers module. On this tape, you'll learn how to give and ask for the date and to name the months of the year. Listen to the word for month.
Yeah.Repeat the word for month.Yeah.Yeah.Now listen to the names of the first three months of the year.Yeah.RYeah.SignYeah.
Did you catch how they're named?In Chinese, the months are actually numbered rather than named, starting with January as number one. Listen again.
First the English will be given and then the Chinese.January.
1月.February.RYeah.March.SignYeah.Repeat the names of these three months.
1月.2月.SignYeah.1月.2月.SignYeah.
Now, just the English will be given. You give the Chinese.January.1月.February.
2月.March.SignYeah.
Listen to the words for April, May and June.
4月.5月.6月.Repeat them after the speaker.
4月.5月.6月.4月.5月.6月.
Now I'll say the English for the first six months and you give the Chinese.January.1月.
February.2月.March.SignYeah.
April.4月.May.5月.June.6月.
Now listen to the last six months of the year.July.
7月.August.8月.September.9月.October.10月.November.11月.December.12月.
Now repeat the words for the six months after the speaker.
7月.8月.9月.10月.11月.
11月.12月.12月.
Now let's go through the months again in order from January to December.
I'll give the English and you give the Chinese.January.
1月.February.2月.March.3月.April.4月.
May.5月.June.6月.July.7月.August.8月.September.9月.October.
10月.November.11月.December.12月.
Now let's practice the months again, but this time in random order.
I'll give the English and you give the Chinese.February.
2月.June.6月.December.12月.January.1月.April.4月.September.
9月.May.5月.March.3月.October.10月.July.7月.November.
3月.August.8月.
Now here's how you say the seventh day of a month. 七号.The word 号 means number, but it's also a counter. Look at note one in your workbook for more information on counters. Now here's how you say April 7.
4月.七号.Repeat the word for seventh. 七号.七号.Now repeat April 7.
4月.七号.4月.七号.Put the following dates into Chinese. April 7.
April 9.4月.9.April 2.4月.2.April 15.4月.15.April 23.
4月.23.April 30.4月.30.
Now test your comprehension. Put the following into English. 试音乐.November.
10月.October.1月.January.5月.May.6月.June.3月.March.7月.July.12月.
December.9月.September.4月.April.8月.August.2月.February.
Now take a look at exercise one. The speaker will say a date in Chinese. Circle the number of the English translation.
8月5.8月20.10月20.10月4.12月4.12月1.
4月1.4月11.1月11.1月31.
Now look at display one in your workbook. Give the Chinese for the dates in the exercise. The correct answer will be given on the tape. Ready? Begin.
November.1.4月20.2.5月20.3.5月14.4.
3月14.5.3月25.6.9.25.7.
9月3.8.7月3.9.7月11.
Now let's take a look at how to ask for the date. The word for today is 今天.Repeat the word for today. 今天.
今天. Listen to the way you ask, what is today's date? 今天幾號. 幾 means how many. Literally the sentence means something like today how many days. Repeat after the speaker, what's today's date? 今天幾號.
今天幾號. 今天幾號.
Now you try asking for the date. Each time the English speaker says question, you ask what's today's date. A response will be given in Chinese. Question.
9月5. Question.
12月7. Question.
8月31. Question.
6月23. Question.
1月14.
Actually, usually when you ask 今天幾號, you'd probably answer only with the date of the month and not the month at all since it's usually assumed that the month is known.
If you wanted to ask for a month, you would ask 幾月, how many months? To ask, what's this month you'd say? 這個月是幾月? Repeat. What's this month after the speaker? 這個月是幾月? 這個月是幾月?
Ask what month it is ahead of the speaker and then repeat. 這個月是幾月? Listen to this exchange. 這個月是幾月? 十月? 今天幾號? 二十一號? Repeat the lines after the speaker. 這個月是幾月?
十月… 十月… 十月… 十月… 十月… 十月… 十月… 十月… 十月… 十月…
今天几号?
二十一号。
Again。
这个月是几月?
十月。
今天几号?
二十一号。
Now you try answering the questions.It's October 21st.
这个月是几月?
十月。
今天几号?
二十一号。
This time you ask the questions.
What's the month and what's the date?
这个月是几月?
十月。
今天几号?
二十一号。
Now take a look at the display too.
Read the dates and listen to the correct answers.
二月十八号。
Number two.
十一月一号。
Number three.
七月二十号。
Number four.
五月四号。
Number five.
十月四号。
Number six.
七月一号。
This is the end of the tape.
End of time and date resource module tape number one.