This document covers learning numbers from 11-99 in Mandarin Chinese, including how to say your age. It provides examples of number questions and answers, as well as the characters, pinyin, and English translations for terms related to age. Students are assigned homework to practice writing numbers and translating phone numbers into characters and pinyin.

1. Learning Objectives:
•Learn about stroke order
•Review the numbers from 11-99
•Learn about tones
•Learn how to say your age
Numbers – How Old AreNumbers – How Old Are
You?You?

2. Starter: Read the sums below and for each
question tick if correct or cross if false.
EXT. Write the correct answer for the false
answers.​
Example: 2 + 4 = 六
一。 10 + 9 = 十七
二。 66 – 20 = 四十六
三。 47 + 51 = 九十八
四。 28 x 3 = 八十六
五。 93 ÷ 3 = 三十






十九
八十四
三十一

3. 你
nǐ
you
多 大
many big
duō​ dà

4. 你
nǐ
How old are you?
多大
duō​ dà
？
?

5. 我
wǒ
I

6. 岁
years old
suì​ ​​​​​

7. 我
你多大？
I am …….. years old
Age 岁+ +

8. 我六岁
I am 6 years old

9. 我二十岁
I am 20 years old

10. nǐ​ duō​ dà​
wǒ​ suì​

11. Age
• Write out the characters, pinyin and
English for: ‘years old’, ‘How old are
you?’ , ‘You’, ‘I am…years old’, ‘I’ on 第十
八页。
• Write out the grammar note on 第四页
。
• EXT: Write out the Chinese for each of
the ages below:
• 11
• 15
• 36
• 58

12. So, you think you know
your numbers?
Work with a partner to translate the following
mobile phone numbers into Chinese
(characters and pinyin!):
a) 明明 : 14579 632 454
b) 小红 : 19820 352 746
c) 丽丽 : 19753 241 687

13. Homework
• Decorate your Chinese exercise books
so they are identifiably ‘Chinese’ and
cover with plastic.
• Learn the characters and pinyin for the
numbers 1-10.Test on Monday.

14. • http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/r
eal_chinese/videos/start/