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day 27bus, taxi or train?

unit 4 · around town

    bus, taxi or train?

    Choose how to travel, ask how someone gets somewhere (怎麼去?), and say how someone does something: 走得很快.

    today’s words

    • 公車 gōngchē · bus
    • 車子 chēzi · car, vehicle
    • 計程車 jìchéngchē · taxi
    • 火車 huǒchē · train
    • 飛機 fēijī · plane
    • 輛 liàng · (measure word for vehicles)
    • 坐 zuò · sit; travel by
    • 快 kuài · fast, quick
    • 慢 màn · slow
    • 出 chū · go out, come out
    • 進 jìn · enter, go in
    • 得 de · (links a verb to how it is done)
    • 走路 zǒulù · walk, go on foot

    sentences

    • 我坐公車去學校。 · I take the bus to school.
    • 公車很慢,我們坐計程車吧。 · The bus is slow, let’s take a taxi.
    • 志明走路走得很快。 · Zhiming walks fast.
    • 你怎麼去學校?走路還是坐公車? · How do you get to school? On foot or by bus?
    • 從臺北到臺南,坐火車要幾個小時? · How many hours is it by train from Taipei to Tainan?