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HSK 1Unit 12 Review

School Life and Books

校与书 Xiào yǔ shū

You can now ask about school activities, describe locations of books, and express abilities and possibilities related to school life.

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School Days Ahead校园生活Xiàoyuán Shēnghuó9 words · 1 grammar
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Liu Ping
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Books and Beyond书海探索shū hǎi tàn suǒ8 words · 1 grammar
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What You Can Now Do

Four skills you've built across this unit — revisit any lesson to sharpen them.

Listen

You can understand basic questions about school activities and follow simple descriptions of locations.

Speak

You can ask yes-or-no questions about school activities, describe where things are, and express what you can or cannot do.

Read & Write

You can read simple sentences about school and books, and write basic questions and statements about your abilities.

Culture & Use

You can navigate school-related conversations, showing interest in others' activities and preferences.

Vocabulary Review

All 23 words from Unit 12. Tap any word to visit its dictionary page.

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Grammar Review

3 grammar patterns covered in this unit.

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A-not-A Questions

正反疑问 · zhèngfǎn yíwèn

Ask 'is it or not?' style questions

PatternV/Adj + 不 + V/Adj · V + 没 + V · …了没有？Present both the positive and negative forms of a verb or adjective side by side to form a question. This is like asking "do or don't?" in a single breath.

电影好不好看？

Diànyǐng hǎo bu hǎokàn?

Is the movie good or not?

你吃不吃包子？

Nǐ chī bu chī bāozi?

Are you eating buns or not?

他回家了没有？

Tā huí jiā le méiyǒu?

Has he gone home?

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Ordinal Numbers: 第 + Number

序数表达法 · xùshù biǎodá fǎ

Build first, second, third … using 第 + number + (measure word + noun)

Pattern第 + Number (+ MW + Noun)Place 第 (dì) before any number and you have an ordinal: 第一 (first), 第二 (second), 第十 (tenth). To rank a noun, add the standard measure word and the noun: 第一个朋友 (the first friend), 第三课 (lesson three).

今天是第一课。

Jīntiān shì dì-yī kè.

Today is Lesson 1.

你是我第一个朋友。

Nǐ shì wǒ dì-yī ge péngyou.

You are my first friend.

我们住在第三层。

Wǒmen zhù zài dì-sān céng.

We live on the third floor.

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Interjections (叹词)

叹词 · tàncí

Use 喂 (and friends) to open phone calls, get attention, and react

Pattern叹词，sentence.An 叹词 (interjection) is a standalone exclamation that sits OUTSIDE the grammatical sentence — it doesn't play subject, predicate, or object. It signals emotion, attention, agreement, or surprise. The HSK 1 syllabus calls out 喂 specifically.

喂，你好。

Wéi, nǐ hǎo.

Hello? (on the phone)

喂！你的钱包掉了！

Wèi! Nǐ de qiánbāo diào le!

Hey! You dropped your wallet!

啊，我明白了。

Ā, wǒ míngbai le.

Oh, I understand now.

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Cumulative Exercises

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A short mini-mock — listening + reading — drawn from this unit's vocab, grammar, and lessons. The natural next step after this review.

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