十八个数字
What is a Chinese ID card?
Name: ________________ Date: ________
在中国，十六岁的时候，大家都要有“身份证”。
身份证上有什么？有你的名字，你的生日，你住在哪里，还有你的照片。还有十八个数字，是你一个人的。
你什么时候要它？坐火车、坐飞机的时候要。住饭店的时候要。去医院看病的时候，也要。买新手机号的时候，也要。
外国人在中国没有身份证。他们坐火车、住饭店的时候，要有护照。
你那里有身份证吗？
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中国 | zhōngguó | China |
| 岁 | suì | years old; year (of age) |
| 上 | shàng | up; above; on |
| 名字 | míngzi | name |
| 住 | zhù | to live; to stay |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 什么 | shénme | what; anything |
| 时候 | shíhou | time; moment; when |
| 坐 | zuò | to sit |
| 火车 | huǒchē | train |
| 飞机 | fēijī | airplane; aircraft |
| 饭店 | fàndiàn | hotel |
English (for the teacher)
In China, at sixteen, everyone must have an ID card.
What’s on an ID card? Your name, your birthday, where you live, and your photo. And eighteen digits, which belong to you alone.
When do you need it? When you take a train or a plane. When you stay in a hotel. When you see a doctor at a hospital, too. And when you get a new phone number.
Foreigners in China don’t have ID cards. When they take a train or stay in a hotel, they need their passports.
Do people have ID cards where you live?