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 |
| Part 3 | in English (this page) | in Chinese |
To view or download a full-sized picture from the VPA, click on its thumbnail representation below. You may also view the table with the list of vocabulary items in Chinese.
| Photo (Thumbnail) | Vocabulary Items | Topics | Grammar Points |
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buses, bus station, parking lot | travel | directions; motion verbs |
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old women, bench, bricks | family; history | conjunctions; subordinate clause |
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river, river bank | pollution; buildings | near/far |
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soft-drinks; vendor | food, drink, markets | transitive/intransitive; measure words |
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rabbit, basket, kill | food; drink; markets | ordering of process/event |
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dried tofu | food; drink; markets | ordering of process/event |
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flower, intersection, tree, street | clothes; ceremonies; celebrations | measure words; directions; locatives/spatial relations |
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truck, field | rural life | comparatives; motion verbs |
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bridge, river | geography; landscape | locatives/spatial relations |
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river, clouds, sky, hills | geography; landscape | locatives/spatial relations |
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wooden house | buildings | prepositions; locative/spatial relations |
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main street, village | buildings; everyday life | directions; near/far |
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small shop, village | buildings; everyday life | directions; transitive/intransitive |
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cinema | buildings; everyday life | conditional; conjunctions |
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church | historical/ religious elements | conditional; comparatives |
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rice paddy | rural life; agriculture | locatives/spatial relations |
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wooden house | buildings; rural life | locatives/spatial relations |
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group, hikers, log | pastimes, landscape | progressive; comparatives |
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outdoor toilet | rural life | directions; conditional |
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school children, truck | children | plural; progressive |
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Tibetan, glasses | minorities; clothing | comparative; progressive |
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cap, cane, parrot | clothing; everyday life | comparative; progressive |
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vendor, cherries | food; agriculture | locative/spatial relations; progressive |
| 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 |
- Comparatives: young vs. old
- Similarities and Differences: shopping
- Food: individual items
- Food: on the street
- Similarities and Differences: train vs. bus vs. bikes
- Measure Words
- Going to Eat Out: types of foods, types of restaurants and customs
- Traffic
- Taking a Trip: from Beijing to Shanghai and Chengdu
- Economic Growth and Social Change
- Travel and Sightseeing
- Rural Life
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