Home, Town, Neighbourhood and Region
Talk about your home and town in Chinese. Learn the characters for rooms in the home like a kitchen and a bedroom, and places in the town like a bank and a supermarket, each shown with its English meaning.
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Your home and town in Chinese
This module builds your Chinese vocabulary for the rooms in your home and the places in your town. Each word is written in Chinese characters, called Hanzi, with its English meaning beside it. Meet each word, then practise until you know them.
Rooms in the home
Start with four rooms and spaces in a home. Each Chinese word is shown with its English meaning.
In the home or the town?
It helps to sort the words into rooms in the home and places in the town.
Match the Chinese to the English
- 饭厅
- 卧室
- 厨房
- 花园
- A dining room
- A bedroom
- A kitchen
- A garden
The Chinese word for a kitchen
Which Chinese word means a kitchen?
- 厨房
- 卧室
- 饭厅
- 花园
More places in town
There is more to see in a town. A post office is 邮局, a park is 公园, and a school is 学校.
What do you do there
- 银行
- 超市
- 电影院
- 邮局
- You go in to take money out or open an account
- A trolley, a long list, and a queue at the till
- You sit in the dark with a big screen in front
- You go in to send a parcel and buy stamps
Which are rooms?
Select the TWO words that are rooms in a home.
- 卧室
- 厨房
- 银行
- 公园
A trip into town
Put these steps of a trip into town in order.
- Leave your home
- Take out money at the bank: 银行
- Buy food at the supermarket: 超市
Complete the town
A kitchen is _____. A bedroom is _____. A bank is _____. A supermarket is _____. A dining room is _____.
Room and place words in Chinese
Tap the TWO statements that are TRUE.
- 厨房 means a kitchen.
- 银行 means a bank.
- 卧室 means a garden.
- 超市 means a cinema.
Where do you go?
For each situation, choose the correct Chinese word for the place.
- You need to take out some money. Where do you go?
- You want to buy food and groceries. Where do you go?
- You want to watch a film. Where do you go?
Your turn: write in Chinese
Write the Chinese for two rooms and two places, then use the pattern below for each place. Write in characters - this module teaches the characters themselves, so they are what counts.
- Two rooms at home: 卧室 (a bedroom), 厨房 (a kitchen), 花园 (a garden) or 饭厅 (a dining room)
- Two places in your town: 公园 (a park), 学校 (a school), 电影院 (a cinema), 超市 (a supermarket), 邮局 (a post office) or 银行 (a bank)
- Use 我去…… (wǒ qù ... - I go to ...) with each place you named
- Join two of them with 和 (hé - and)