The Virtual Picture Album -- China

The grid below is an annotated index to part of theVirtual Picture Albumcompiled and distributed by theLess Commonly Taught Languages Projectat the University of Minnesota. The pictures in this section of the VPA are of people, places and objects in the People's Republic of China. Each of the pictures is represented by a thumbnail-sized image in the grid, and is accompanied by:

  • a list ofvocabulary itemscorresponding to elements in the picture
  • some suggestedlesson topicsandgrammar pointsfor which the picture might be useful. (These categories aresummarizedat the bottom of the page.)

There are also suggestions for ways to use certainpairs or groupsof pictures.

Due to the number of pictures in this section, the VPA index for China is divided into three parts.

Part 1 inEnglish inChinese
part 2<> inEnglish in Chinese (this page)
Part 3 inEnglish inChinese
Toview or download a full-sized picture from the VPA, click on its thumbnail representation below. Hit your browser's "back" button or clickhereto return to the page with vocabulary in English.

Photo (Thumbnail) Vocabulary Items Topics Grammar Points
crowd at Shanghai train station, 1 crowds, station, lao-bai-xing"" width="128" height="19"> 人口增长;travel motion verbs; directions
crowd at Shanghai train station, 2 crowds, station, lao-bai-xing"" width="128" height="19"> 人口增长;travel motion verbs; directions
telephone pole on a bicycle telephone pole, bicycle, building materials construction "ba" construction; progressive
traffic jam, Nanjing traffic jam, bicycle, van traffic; pollution; economic growth locatives/spatial relations
brushes on a cart peddler, brushes, skyscraper, street, wagon everyday life; kitchen utensils prepositions; near/far
grandparents and a grandchild grandparents, grandchild, spoil, only child, politics; family subordinate clause; conditional
baozi_seller man, dumplings, san-lun-che"" width="124" height="22"> food; unemployment/employment ordering of process/event; progressive
waitress waitress, beer economic growth; clothes; advertising transitive/intransitive
mao_jacket clothes; modernization near/far; directions
pepsi_sign sign, bicycle lane traffic; advertising directions; progressive
waiting_boy noodles, street food, bowl, chopsticks food measure words; progressive
alley_chengdu brick, alley housing; modernization near/far; directions
2_bicycles bicycle, department store transportation measure words; directions
cellphone_bike bicycle, cellular phone economic growth; income distribution conjunctions; near/far
men_waiting men, street, sign unemployment/employment; construction progressive; reflexive
kids child, elementary school 人口增长;教育 plural; measure words
chengdu_traffic traffic jam, car traffic; pollution; economic growth locatives/spatial relations
hanging_meat butcher, meat food; markets prepositions
pineapple_seller pineapple, construction site unemployment/employment; agriculture; construction comparatives; conditional
coalheap coal, wall, garbage pollution; environment; economic growth progressive
hongqiao men, street, sign economic development directional, measure words


Grouping Suggestions
TOPICS GRAMMAR POINTS
advertising "ba" construction
animals comparatives
buildings conditional
celebrations/ceremonies contrast
children directions
clothing following a map
colors locatives/spatial relations
construction/economic development measure words
culture near/far
direction signs numbers (cardinal)
everyday life ordering of process/event
family particles
food progressive
geography reflexive
greetings subordinate clause
historical/religious elements
housing
how-many?
kitchen appliances/utensils
landscape
materials
nature
numbers
occupations/professions
pastimes
politics
school
school activities
seasons
shapes
shopping
store interior
traffic signs
transportation
travel
unemployment/employment
urban/rural
weather
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