You are learning past movement: you will read the scene it happens in, take apart the pattern behind them (past movement verbs), hear them in a conversation, rehearse them, and finish by saying one thing out loud to be graded.
The Old Quarter, early morning. Thirty-six streets, each named for its historic trade. You walked through them yesterday and now you tell people where you went.
The Old Quarter wakes in layers. At five, the bakers. At six, the pho shops. By seven, the motorbikes are a river. The stranger da di through all thirty-six streets in two days.
「Hom qua toi da di tu Hang Dao den Hang Bac. Toi da di qua Hang Ma — pho ban do tho cung. Sau do toi da den Ho Hoan Kiem.」
He tells his guesthouse owner this over breakfast. She nods approvingly. 「Ban da di Hang Buom chua?」 Not yet. 「Toi chua di Hang Buom.」
「Di di! O do co Cha Ca La Vong — ban phai an o do.」 She points on a hand-drawn map taped to the wall. Every guesthouse in Hanoi has one. Every guesthouse owner has opinions about where you should go next.
He finishes his ca phe and da di.