Telling time and working with numbers
Read times, quantities and limits in a notice.
Listen, read, and retell
Pass 1: understand the situation. Pass 2: hide meanings and read. Pass 3: retell it in your own words.
Conversation
The schedule says a quarter past nine, for forty-five minutes in total. Is my watch slow?
No. A quarter past nine is nine fifteen. There are five minutes left, so we have enough time.
I also see eighty points or above and sixty or below. How do I read these numbers?
以上 and 以下 can include the stated number; 超过八十 must be more than eighty. Read the explanation on the chart.
Extension reading
The class counts dots and practises thousands, ten-thousands and hundred-millions. Xiao He sees how a missing zero changes a quantity.
Anan asks how many degrees it is today. The teacher points out that this chart shows times and marks, not weather; ask when information is insufficient.
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