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Finding the way: confirm directions

How can you ask for directions and check the route?

Use an imagined city route to ask about a destination and check directions.

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Finding the way: confirm directions

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Lina wants to visit a museum.

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Translation and pinyin

莉娜想去博物馆。

Outside the station, she asks a passer-by for directions.

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Translation and pinyin

在车站外面,她向路人问路。

The passer-by tells her to go straight and then turn left.

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Translation and pinyin

路人告诉她直走,然后左转。

The museum is beside a small bridge.

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Translation and pinyin

博物馆在一座小桥旁边。

Supporting vocabulary

station · ticket · train · bus · subway · map · street · left · right · straight · bridge · museum ·

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Turn the story into an exchange

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Main scenario

Finding the way: confirm directions — start an exchange

Lina wants to visit a museum.

How can you ask for directions and check the route?

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A different setting

Finding the way: confirm directions — a changed situation

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Cultural notes and sources

Use an imagined city route to ask about a destination and check directions.

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