Telling Time in Chinese

Telling Time in Chinese

Assessment

Interactive Video

Created by

Lucas Foster

World Languages, Education

5th - 8th Grade

Hard

This video tutorial teaches how to tell time in Chinese, covering telling time on the hour, adding minutes, special cases like half past and quarter past, and asking for the current time. It explains the use of 'liang' and 'er' for the number two, and how to express time using 'ban' for half and 'ke' for a quarter. The tutorial also introduces how to ask what time it is and how to specify AM or PM in Chinese.

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do you say 2 o'clock in Chinese?

Er dian

Liang dian

San dian

Yi dian

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the correct way to say 7:05 in Chinese?

Qi dian ling wu fen

Qi dian ling wu

Qi dian wu

Qi dian wu fen

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When adding minutes to the hour, what should you say if the minutes are less than 10?

Add 'fen' after the number

Add 'shi' before the number

Add 'ling' before the number

Just the number

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do you express 'half past' in Chinese?

Fen

Cha

Ke

Ban

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does 'ke' mean when telling time in Chinese?

Half

Quarter

Lacking

Exact

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How would you say '10 minutes to 4' in Chinese?

Shi fen si dian

Si dian cha shi fen

Cha shi fen si dian

Si dian shi fen

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the Chinese phrase for asking 'What time is it now?'

Xianzai ji shi

Xianzai ji ke

Xianzai ji fen

Xianzai ji dian

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In Chinese, how is the day divided instead of using AM and PM?

Into four parts

Into two halves

Into six main time periods

Into three segments

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the measure word for hours in the question 'What time is it?' in Chinese?

Shi

Fen

Ke

Dian

10.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do you specify 9 o'clock in the morning in Chinese?

Jiu dian wan shang

Jiu dian zhong wu

Jiu dian xia wu

Jiu dian zao shang

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