Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Birthday and Age

Link to PPT
Sample essay for your project (you should include at least: your family size, family members, age and birthday informations):

wǒ jiào David   .       wǒ  de jiā yǒu shì  yī  gè  rén,   yǒu bà  ba,   mā ma,    yé  ye ,
我叫David。我的家有十一个人, 有爸爸, 妈妈, 爷爷,
nǎi  nai ,     liǎng gè  jiě  jie ,          yī   gè   gē  ge ,         yī   gè   dì   di    hé  liǎng gè  mèi mei
奶奶, 两个姐姐, 一个哥哥, 一个弟弟 和 两个妹妹。我有一只狗和一只猫。


我十四岁, 我的生日是七月十四号。我的爸爸三十八岁,他的生日是九月十八号。 我的妈妈三十五岁, 她的生日是一月八号。。。


Sentence structures and grammar points:

*的 is the possessive particle.( ’s in English)  ex. 我 is I, 我的 means “my” or “mine”,  David’s cat is translated as “David 的猫”
*有 could mean “have, has, had”  or “there is, there are, there was or there were” ( There is no tense in Chinese. )
* Generally, Chinese word order is subject +verb +object (SVO). That applies to questions as well as statement. Ex 你的家(S) 有(V) 几个人(O)?

Household size:
Question: 你的家有几个人? (Literally, “your family has how many people”)
Answer:我的家有三个人。(My family has 3 people. Once again, answer follows the EXACT SAME word order as the question in Chinese. You replace the question word with the answer)

Family member:
Question: 你的家有谁 (Literally, “your family has who”,  的could be omitted, so you could say 你家有谁as well)
Answer:   我的家有爸爸, 妈妈和我 (again, you replace question word 谁with the answer, family member.)

Pet
Question:你有什么宠物?(Literally, “you have what pet?”)
Answer:      我有一只狗, 一只猫和两条鱼。(same as in English, when listing, you need a conjunction “and” –和)

Age:
Question:  你 几 岁?(Literally, “you how many years old?”)
Answer: 我十四岁。(Literally, I 14 years old)

Birthday:
Question:你的生日是几月几号?(Literally,“your birthday is what month what day?”)
Answer:  我的生日是七月八号. 

New words:
岁suì:  -years old

生日 sheng rì : birthday

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