learning time

1. Mandarin Language Level 1
Unit 4: Time
Lam Kai Chee
Centre for Language Studies
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
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2. In this session, you will be
• introduced to the ways in expressing time
• exposed to the ways in asking about time
Session objectives

3. • Some important terms
Expressing time

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

5. • 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

6. • Expressing a day in a week

7. • However beware of Sunday, which is
traditionally regarded as the last day of a week
by Chinese
or
but not

8. • Reading the time

9. Asking about time

12. • 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