A weekend movie
Reading strategy
- Grasp the text's purpose first from its title and type.
- Do not stop at unknown words; follow the flow. Hover the underlined key words to jump to the vocabulary track.
- Find the clue each question asks about directly in the passage.
Passage
小美：
好久不见，你最近怎么样？这个周末你有时间吗？
我想请你一起去看电影。车站旁边新开了一家电影院，听说里面又大又舒服。现在有一部新电影，很多人说非常好看。
我们可以星期六下午两点在电影院门口见面。电影三点才开始，所以我们可以先喝杯咖啡，聊聊天。
看完电影以后，我们还可以一起去吃饭。旁边有一家饭馆，那儿的菜又好吃又便宜。
如果你星期六有别的事，星期天也可以。你想去的话，就给我打电话。
希望你能来，我们好久没一起玩儿了。
小龙
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Sentence structure
Key sentences split into meaning units, showing the role of each part.
车站旁边新开了一家电影院。
Modifier车站旁边place (next to the station)
Modifier新newly (adverb)
Predicate开了opened (le = completion)
Object一家电影院a cinema (measure word jia)
To state existence or appearance, Chinese uses "place + verb + thing": "chezhan pangbian (place) kai le (appeared) yi jia dianyingyuan (a cinema)". "le" marks completion, and the measure word "jia" counts shops and institutions.
那儿的菜又好吃又便宜。
Subject那儿的菜the food there (de modifier)
Predicate又好吃both tasty (you...)
Predicate又便宜and cheap (...you)
Chinese adjectives serve as the predicate directly, with no "shi" ("to be"): "cai + hao chi" ("the food (is) tasty"). You do not insert "is" as in English. "you ... you ..." lists two qualities at once: "both ... and ...".
Questions
Q1What does Xiao Long want to do?
Q2Where and at what time will they meet on Saturday?
Q3After the movie, what can they do?