我的衣服
Wǒ de yīfu — Clothes
Clothing brings Kindergarten’s colours back to do grown-up work, and introduces a distinction English doesn’t make: Chinese has two different verbs for “wear,” depending on whether the thing goes on your body or hangs off it.
Unit objectives
- Name eight items of clothing
- Choose correctly between 穿 and 戴
- Describe what someone is wearing, with colour
- Say what they’d wear in each season, linking back to Unit 5
Key vocabulary
衣服 衬衝 裤子 裙子 鞋 帽子 外套 手套 穿 戴
Two verbs for “wear”
If your arms or legs go through it, 穿. If it just sits on you, 戴:
穿衬衝 wear a shirt · 穿鞋 wear shoes
戴帽子 wear a hat · 戴手套 wear gloves · 戴眼镜 wear glasses
The same logic as 坐 and 骑 in Grade 2 — Chinese keeps asking what your body is actually doing.
What you put on
Eight garments
Flashcards, then dressing a paper doll to spoken instructions — listening practice disguised as a craft.
Wear or wear?
Sorting every item into the 穿 pile or the 戴 pile, and working out the rule from the piles.
Colours on clothes
Describing a classmate’s outfit — note the order: colour goes before the garment, as in English.
Dressing for the season
Unit 5 meets Unit 6: what you wear when it’s hot, and what changes when 冷了.
School uniforms, and clothes with history
Most mainland Chinese students wear a tracksuit-style uniform — comfortable, practical, worn all day — which usually surprises students expecting something formal. Alongside everyday clothes there are garments with long histories: the 旗袍 qípáo fitted dress, and 汉服, the flowing robes of much older dynasties, which young people have recently revived and now wear to parks and festivals for fun. Traditional dress in China is not only a museum thing.
Unit 6 progress check
A light, no-pressure way to see what’s sticking:
- Can your child name four things they’re wearing right now?
- Do they use 戴 for a hat and 穿 for shoes?
- Can they describe an outfit with a colour attached?
Getting dressed in the morning is a free daily drill — name one garment as it goes on.