Practice Drills and Exercises

1. Do substitution drills

(1) Nǐ bàba zài nǎr gōngzuò?

Tā zài dàxué gōngzuò.

Tā zuò shénme gōngzuò?

Tā shì Pǔtōnghuà lǎoshī.

(2) Nǐ jiāo Yīngyǔ ma?

Duì, wǒ jiāo Yīngyǔ.

Nǐ zài nǎr jiāo Yīngyǔ?

Wǒ zài dàxué jiāo Yīngyǔ.

(3) Qǐngwèn, nǐ shì nǎguó rén?

Wǒ shì Měiguó rén.

Nǐ péngyou yě shì Měiguó rén ma?

Shì de, wǒ péngyou yě shì Měiguó rén.

Wǒmen dōu shì Měiguó rén.

(4) Qǐngwèn, nín guì xìng?

Wǒ xìng Wáng. Nǐ xìng shénme?

Wǒ xìng Chén, Wǒ jiào Chén Wěiyè.

(5) Zhāng xiānsheng xiànzài máng ma?

Tā hěn máng. Tā chángcháng qù Zhōngguó.

Tā qù Zhōngguó zuò shénme?

Tā qù zuò shēngyì.

2. Arrange the given Chinese words into a sentence, using the English sentence as a clue.

(1) Zhōngguó rén / shì / wǒ / bù (I am not Chinese.)

(2) gōngzuò / nǐ / Měiguó / zài /ma (Do you work in America?)

(3) xìng / Zhāng / ma / nǐ ( Is your surname Zhang?)

(4) rén / shì / nǎ / nǐ / guó (Where do you come from?)

(5) Wáng / xiānsheng/ Měiguó rén / shì /shì//tàitai / yě /Měiguó rén/ Wáng(Mr. Wang is American, Mrs. Wang is also American.)

(6) zuò / gōngzuò / nǐ /shénme / gēge (What does your elder brother do?)

(7) lǎoshī / máng / de / nǐ / zuìjìn /ma (Has your teacher been busy recently?)

(8) wǒ / shēntǐ / bàba / hǎo /xiànzài / hěn (My father's health is very good now.)

3. Make up a dialogue with your classmates, using the following questions

(1) Nǐ xìng shénme?

(2) Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?

(3) Nǐ shì nǎguó rén?

(4) Nǐ zuò shénme gōngzuò?

(5) Nǐ zài nǎr gōngzuò?

(6) Nǐ de péngyou jiào shénme míngzi?

(7) Nǐ de péngyou shì nǎguó rén?

(8) Tā zuò shénme gōngzuò?

(9) Tā zài nǎr gōngzuò?

(10) Tā tàitai/ xiānsheng jiào shénme míngzi?

(11) Shì nǎguó rén?

(12) Tā tàitai / xiānsheng gōngzuò ma?

(13) Tā tàitai / xiānsheng zuò shénme gōngzuò?

(14) Tā tàitai / xiānsheng zài nǎr gōngzuò?

(15) Tā tàitai / xiāngsheng gōngzuò máng ma?

(16) Tā tàitai / xiānsheng shēntǐ hǎo ma?

4. Change the following sentences into questions by replacing the underlined parts with interrogative pronouns.

(1) Tā xìng Zhāng.

(2) Tā jiào Zhāng Guólán.

(3) Zhāng lǎoshī jiāo Pǔtōnghuà.

(4) Mǎlì bù rènshi Dàwèi de dàxué tóngxué.

(5) Dàwèi bù zài jiā gōngzuò.

(6) Tā chángcháng qù Běijīng.

(7) Tā bù zuò shēngyi.

(8) Tā de gēge shì lǜshī.

5. Translate the following sentences into Pinyin:

(1) I am American.

(2) Are you Chinese?

(3) Where do you come from?

(4) May I ask what your surname is?

(5) My surname is Li. My name is Lìměi.

(6) What do you do?

(7) I am a teacher. How about you?

(8) Where do you work?

(9) Let me introduce, this is my good friend, David.

(10) Nice to meet you.

(11) Long time no see. How have you been recently?

(12) I work for an American company now.