HSK 1Lesson 4
This lesson stays in one classroom check-in scene. Teacher Wang checks which students are together, and the class reads short roster numbers aloud.
You will learn to greet a teacher and a class group, identify classmates and friends, and read a simple roster number.
Check in a class group by greeting people, identifying the group, and reading roster numbers.
Part 1 · 30 new words
Contains 3 words
you (polite)
everyone
good; hello
Contains 7 words
plural marker
you all
Contains 7 words
very; quite
yes/no question particle
Contains 13 words
zero
one
Part 2 · 11 phrases
您好。
Hello. (polite)
大家好。
Hello, everyone.
你们好。
Hello, you all.
我们是同学。
We are classmates.
他们是朋友。
They are friends.
他们两人。
There are two of them.
号码是零。
The number is zero.
号码是一二三四。
Part 3 · 4 conversations
Before class, Meimei introduces two groups of students to Teacher Wang.
美美Meimei
王老师，您好。
Teacher Wang, hello.
王老师Teacher Wang
你好，美美。她们是谁？
Hello, Meimei. Who are they?
美美Meimei
她们是我的同学。
Part 4 · 1 point
Using 两 before people
Use 两人liǎng rén for a quantity of two people. Use 二èr when reading the digit 2 in a roster number.
Count two people
Use 两liǎng, followed by 人rén, when the quantity is two people.
we; us
they; them
they; them (female group)
it
they; them (things or animals)
to be
friend
classmate
who
and what about...?
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
two
number
The number is one-two-three-four.
号码是五六七八。
The number is five-six-seven-eight.
它是九。
It is nine.
它们是九、十。
They are nine and ten.
They are my classmates.
王老师Teacher Wang
你们好。
Hello, everyone.
Meimei asks Fangfang who a group of students are and how Fangfang knows them.
美美Meimei
他们是谁？
Who are they?
方方Fangfang
他们是我们的同学。
They are our classmates.
美美Meimei
他们是你的朋友吗？
Are they your friends?
方方Fangfang
是，他们是我的朋友。
Yes, they are my friends.
Teacher Wang checks Meimei's number and corrects the digits.
美美Meimei
我的号码是一二三四吗？
Is my number one-two-three-four?
王老师Teacher Wang
不是，你的号码是五六七八。
No. Your number is five-six-seven-eight.
美美Meimei
五六七八吗？
Five-six-seven-eight?
王老师Teacher Wang
是，五六七八。
Yes, five-six-seven-eight.
Meimei and Fangfang look at number cards and correct the order before class.
美美Meimei
它们是九、十吗？
Are they nine and ten?
方方Fangfang
不是，它们是八、九。
No, they are eight and nine.
美美Meimei
它们是八、九吗？
Are they eight and nine?
方方Fangfang
是，它们是八、九。
Yes, they are eight and nine.
他们两人tāmen liǎng rén means “the two of them.”
In sentences
Quantity: two people
他们两人。
The two of them.
Use 两liǎng before 人rén because this is a quantity of people.
Digit: number two
号码是二。
The number is two.
Use 二èr when reading the digit 2; this is not a quantity before 人rén.
我们两人。
The two of us.
Chinese uses two different words for “two” in this lesson. Use 两liǎng before 人rén when two is a quantity of people: 两人liǎng rén, “two people.” Use 二èr when you say the number 2 by itself or read it as a digit.
In the roster-style phrase 他们两人tāmen liǎng rén, 他们tāmen identifies the group and 两人liǎng rén says that the group contains two people. Do not replace 两liǎng with 二èr in this people-quantity pattern.
