HSK 1 · Lesson 8 of 15

怎么去学校

交通出行

14 minute lesson · editorial draft

怎么去学校

Ask about transport and directions

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Learning goals

  • Ask how someone travels.
  • Talk about destinations and travel time.
  • Ask and confirm a simple direction.

Core vocabulary

15 items

to go

lái

to come

huí

to return

zuò

sit; take transport

开车kāichē

to drive

出租车chūzūchē

taxi

chē

vehicle

火车huǒchē

train

飞机fēijī

airplane

dào

to arrive

学校xuéxiào

school

公司gōngsī

company

哪儿nǎr

where

怎么zěnme

how

时间shíjiān

time

Grammar

Serial verb sequence

坐 + transport + 去 + place

Use successive verbs to describe how and where someone goes.

我坐出租车去公司。Wǒ zuò chūzūchē qù gōngsī.I take a taxi to the company.
她开车去学校。Tā kāichē qù xuéxiào.She drives to school.

How questions with 怎么

怎么 + verb?

Use 怎么 before a verb to ask how something is done.

你怎么去学校?Nǐ zěnme qù xuéxiào?How do you go to school?
这个字怎么写?Zhège zì zěnme xiě?How do you write this character?

Dialogue

Maya你怎么去公司?

Nǐ zěnme qù gōngsī?

How do you go to work?
Lin我坐出租车去公司。你呢?

Wǒ zuò chūzūchē qù gōngsī. Nǐ ne?

I take a taxi. What about you?
Maya我开车。下午我坐火车回家。

Wǒ kāichē. Xiàwǔ wǒ zuò huǒchē huí jiā.

I drive. In the afternoon I take a train home.
Lin火车几点到?

Huǒchē jǐ diǎn dào?

What time does the train arrive?
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HSK 1 task coverage

This lesson maps to 问答出行信息 in the Level 1 communication-task syllabus. Its vocabulary and grammar references use the same IDs as the independent exercise library and mock-test question bank.

Practise this task in HSK Exercises