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Mandarin Language Level 1 Unit 4: Time Lam Kai Chee Centre for Language Studies Universiti Malaysia Sarawak This OpenCourseWare@UNIMAS and its related course materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Mandarin Language Level 1Unit 4: Time

Lam Kai CheeCentre for Language StudiesUniversiti Malaysia Sarawak

This OpenCourseWare@UNIMAS and its related course materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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In this session, you will be• introduced to the ways in expressing time • exposed to the ways in asking about time

Session objectives

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• Some important terms

Expressing time

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• It’s simple to express years, months and dates

Number Number Number Number

Number

Number

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• So 13th July 2015 would be

• Note that the sequence in expression of time is from year to date: 2015 年 7 月 13号

2 0 1 5

7

13

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• Expressing a day in a week

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• However beware of Sunday, which is traditionally regarded as the last day of a week by Chinese

or

but not

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• Reading the time

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Asking about time

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• Try recalling how to say ‘today’, ‘tomorrow’, ‘yesterday’, and ‘now’.• Try asking ‘what’s the day today’ to your

friend who speaks Mandarin. Listen to his/her answer carefully. • What’s your answer when somebody asks you

‘míngtiān xīngqī jĭ’?

Shìshi kàn: now you try