260 Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese Level 1
- Indicating sequence with xiAn and 再 (Use and Structure note 13.10)
Xiao Gao plans to do each pair of actions in a sequence. She will do the first action first
and the second one afterward. Connect each pair of actions using xiAn and 再 as in the
example, and then translate each new sentence to English.
Example: 吃晚飯，做 gDng kè → 小 GAo 想 xiAn 吃晚飯再做 gDng kè。
English: Xiao Gao is planning to eat dinner first and then do homework.a. 給她的 péngyou 打電話，上 wFng
English:
b. 吃飯，上 kè
English:
c. 去書 diàn 買書，去 kAfBi 館 hB kAfBi
English:
d. 到圖書館去，huí 家
English:
e. 和 péngyou 去 tiào wJ，huí 家 shuì jiào
English:
f. 在圖書館學 xí 中文，去學 xiào kFo shì
English:
- Scrambled sentences
Rewrite these phrases as sentences, putting the words in the correct order to match the
English translations.
a. 飯館 / dGng / 已經 / 在 / 的 / 了 / 你 / 我 / wàibian
I am already outside the restaurant waiting for you.
b. xiG / 大 / 小 / 一點 / 太 / xiG / 對不起 / 你 / néng / 得 / 不 / néng / 了
Sorry, you wrote it too small. Could you write it bigger?
c. 找 / 西 biAn / 圖書館 / 就 / 我 / 很 / 的 / 在 / 家 / 容易
My house is to the west of the library. (It’s) easy to find.