Hilingo Chinese Course HSK1 Lesson 13: What's the Date Today?

Learning to express dates and days of the week in Chinese is a highly practical skill for daily communication. Hilingo Chinese Course HSK1 Lesson 13, “What's the Date Today,” focuses on date expressions and helps learners master the use of “month, date, and day of the week” in real-life contexts. Students will be able to answer common questions such as “What's the date today?” and “What day is it today?”

Lesson Content:

• Learn time words such as “today, yesterday, tomorrow”

• Master expressions for “month and date” and “day of the week”

• Learn sentences with nominal predicates, e.g., “Today is September 1st,” “Tomorrow is Wednesday”

• Practice tone collocations in disyllabic words: 2nd tone + all tones

• Improve practical date-related communication through texts, dialogues, and exercises

The lesson also includes review, warm-up, quiz, and homework sections to help learners consolidate what they have learned. After this lesson, students will be able to accurately express dates and days of the week in Chinese and describe yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Hilingo Chinese Course provides systematic and practical online Chinese lessons for learners around the world. The HSK1 course is designed for beginners and covers essential vocabulary, sentence patterns, and expressions for daily communication, helping learners start their Chinese learning journey with ease.

Key Vocabulary:
please, to ask, today, date/number, month, week, yesterday, tomorrow

Key Sentence Patterns:

• Excuse me, what's the date today?

• Today is September 1st.

• What day is it today?

• Wednesday.

• What was the date yesterday?

• What about tomorrow?

Next Lesson:
I go to school to read.

Congratulations on completing Lesson 13. See you in the next class!