Learn to say the days of the week in Chinese and express your hobbies and activities accroding to the days of the week. It is compatible with Jinbu 1 Chapter 3.

1. Before the Class
• Please have a quick review of the
vocabulary and sentence structures in
Chapter 3. Also have a quick look of the
pets we learned last semester.
• The reading test will be conducted in 2
minutes.

2. 今天是几月几日？ (what’s the date
today?)
今天是_____月________日。
Warm up questions:
How to say today in Chinese?
How to say month and date?
八 十七
Can you say the following dates in Chinese？
New Year’s Day (1 January)
Australian Day (26 January)
Valentine’s Day (14 February)
Christmas Day (25 December)

3. 星期日星期六星期五星期四星期三星期二星期一
八 月
313029282726
25242322212019
18171615141312
111098765
4321
看书 买东西 听音乐 玩儿滑板 看电视
玩儿电脑
游戏 打网球

4. What day is it today?
jīn tiān xīng qī jǐ
今天星期几?

5. 星期(xīng qī) – days of the week
• To say the days of the week in Chinese is an easy task, as
Chinese names for the days of the week are based on a
simple numerical sequence.
• 星期(xīng qī) means week；literally a “star period”. To say
the individual days, we put a number after 星期；
星期 + numbers = weekdays
Examples: 星期一 Monday
星期二 Tuesday (etc.)
• The only exception is Sunday, which is either 星期日 or 星
期天. 日 is used more in books or newspapers while 天 is
used more for talking.
• Note: There are other two ways to express weeks and days: 周(zhōu)
and 礼拜(lǐ bài). Both of these have the day number appended in the
same way as for 星期.
• Although there are three different words for “week” in
Chinese, we focus on the official term for “week”, which
is 星期 (xīng qī) in this lesson.

6. 星期日星期六星期五星期四星期三星期二星期一
八 月
3130292827
26252423222120
19181716151413
1211109876
54321
Question：你星期六看电影吗？你星期二打篮球吗？
Answer： 我星期六看电影。 我星期二不打篮球，我踢足
球。

7. An interesting rhyme
一二三四五六七，七六五四三二一。
qī gè ā yí lái zhāi guǒ qī zhī lán zi shǒu zhōng tí
七个阿姨来摘果，七只篮子手 中 提。
Seven aunties come to pick up the fruit with seven baskets carrying in
their hands;
qī zhǒng guǒ zi bǎi qī yàng： píng guǒ táo zi
七 种 果子 摆七 样：苹果 、桃
子、
Seven kinds of fruit placing in seven categories: apple, peach,
shí liu shì zi lǐ zi lì zi lí
石榴、 柿子、李子、栗子、梨。
pomegranate, persimmon, plum, chestnut and pear.