Days and Dates 九月二十八日

Starter: Copy the title & date into your exercise book, then translate the
following into Chinese/English. Can you get as far as the green section?

1) 十月 7) 一月二十日
2) February 8) June 14th
3) April 9) Today is Thursday

4) 星期六
5) Monday
6) Wednesday
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1
3 4
今天 星期 几 ?jīntiān xīngqī jǐ?
今天 jīntiān
明天 míngtiān
昨天 zuótiān
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今天星期三 昨天星期一 五月

4 5 6
Yesterday Today is
April
was Sunday Saturday

zuótiān míngtiān
年 nián = year Example: 今年是二 0 一六
年

今年 jīnnián = this year

明年 míngnián = next year
去年 qùnián = last year
1. Copy new vocabulary into your exercise book
(characters, pinyin, English)
2. Write the year in full this year, next year & last year
To give the date in full in Chinese, the word order is:
Year – Month – Date – Day (Don’t forget, you must have a
character after the year, month and date too)
Example: 今天是二 00 五年 , 六月 , 十日 , 星期天
Translate into English/Chinese:
今天是一九九八年，三月，八日，星期一。
明天是一八八九年 , 十一月 , 二十一日 , 星期三。

Today is Wednesday, March 3rd 2014

Yesterday was Tuesday, 9th May 2015
 ★ Random Numbers ★

1. Today is
-2
Wednesday
2. What day is
5
it today?
3. What is the
4
day tomorrow?
4. How are
3
you?

5. What is
-3
the date
6. Yesterday
2
was Friday
7. Today is the
4year 1999 -1
8. Next year
today?

10. What is 12. It is the

9. Tomorrow
6
is Sunday
-2
the date -11.3Last year 3
10th of March
tomorrow? today