The Virtual Picture Album -- China
The grid below is an annotated index to part of the Virtual Picture Album compiled and distributed by the Less Commonly Taught Languages Project at 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 of vocabulary items corresponding to elements in the picture
- some suggested lesson topics and grammar points for which the picture might be useful. (These categories are summarized at the bottom of the page.)
There are also suggestions for ways to use certain pairs or groups of pictures.
Due to the number of pictures in this section, the VPA index for China is divided into three parts.
| Part 1 | in English | in Chinese | |
| part 2<> | in English | in Chinese (this page) | |
| Part 3 | in English | in Chinese |
| Photo (Thumbnail) | Vocabulary Items | Topics | Grammar Points |
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population growth; travel | motion verbs; directions |
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population growth; travel | motion verbs; directions |
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construction | "ba" construction; progressive |
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traffic; pollution; economic growth | locatives/spatial relations |
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everyday life; kitchen utensils | prepositions; near/far |
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politics; family | subordinate clause; conditional |
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food; unemployment/employment | ordering of process/event; progressive |
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economic growth; clothes; advertising | transitive/intransitive |
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clothes; modernization | near/far; directions |
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traffic; advertising | directions; progressive |
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food | measure words; progressive |
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housing; modernization | near/far; directions |
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transportation | measure words; directions |
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economic growth; income distribution | conjunctions; near/far |
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unemployment/employment; construction | progressive; reflexive |
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population growth; education | plural; measure words |
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traffic; pollution; economic growth | locatives/spatial relations |
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food; markets | prepositions |
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unemployment/employment; agriculture; construction | comparatives; conditional |
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pollution; environment; economic growth | progressive |
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economic development | directional, measure words |
| 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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