Days and Dates Starter Copy the title date

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 2) February 3) April 4) 星期六 5) Monday 6) Wednesday 7) 一月二十日 8) June 14 th 9) Today is Thursday

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1 2 今天星期三 昨天星期一 4 5 Yesterday was Sunday zuótiān 3 April 五月 6 Today is Saturday 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 3 rd 2014 Yesterday was Tuesday, 9 th May 2015

★ Random Numbers ★ -2 1. Today is Wednesday 2. What day is it today? 3. What is the day tomorrow? 5. What is the date today? 6. Yesterday was Friday 7. Today is the year 1999 8. Next year 9. Tomorrow is Sunday 10. What is the date tomorrow? -11. 3 Last year 12. It is the 10 th of March today -3 6 5 2 -2 4 4 4. How are you? 3 -1 3