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Workshop 7 and 8: Shopping at a market35
WORKSHOP 7 AND 8: SHOPPING AT A MARKET
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CONVERSATION: HÀNZÌ & PINYIN – SHOPPING AT A MARKET
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CONVERSATION: ENGLISH – SHOPPING AT A MARKET 117
TOPIC WORDS: FRUIT AND VEGETABLE
Asking the price
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How many kilos do you want to buy?
Negotiating the price 1
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Negotiating the price 2
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CHINESE RÉNMÍNBÌ (RMB) 121
TAIWANESE NEW TAIWAN DOLLARS (NTD)
HONG KONG DOLLARS (HKD)
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GRAMMAR: RENMINBI (SPOKEN) INTRODUCTION
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Rule 1 When there is one unit in the amount, add “qián” after the amount.
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Rule 2 When there are two or three units in the amount, drop the final unit.
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Rule 3 Use bàn (half) to replace 50 cents.
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Rule 4 When the unit of “máo” is missing, add líng (zero).
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PAIR-WORK: SHOPPING MǍIDŌNGXI 127
PAIR-WORK: SHOPPING MǍIDŌNGXI 128
WORD LIST
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Conversation: Hànzì & Pinyin – Shopping at a market36
* Compulsory to learn: you need to recall the word in Pinyin transcriptions.
A:
我想吃水果。
Wǒ xiǎng chī shuǐguǒ.
我们去买水果，好吗？
Wǒmen qù mǎi*(to buy) shuǐguǒ,
hǎo ma?
B:
好。
我们去三源里菜市场。
Hǎo.
Wǒmen qù Sānyuánlǐ càishìchǎng*
(market).
A:
师傅，您好！
Shīfu* (master1), nín hǎo!
Shīfu:
您好！您要买什么？
Nín hǎo! Nín yào mǎi shénme?
A:
一个苹果多少钱？
Yí ge píngguǒ duōshao qián?
Shīfu:
一个苹果三毛钱。
Yí ge píng guǒ sān máo qián.
您要买几个？
Nín yào mǎi jǐ ge?
我要买两个。
Wǒ yào mǎi liǎng ge.
一斤梨多少钱？
Yì jīn lí duōshao qián?
Shīfu:
一斤梨三块八。
Yì jīn lí sān kuài bā.
A:
太贵了！
Tài guì le!
可以便宜一点儿吗？
Kěyǐ piányi yìdiǎnr ma?
Shīfu:
三块半怎么样？
Sān kuài bàn zěnmeyàng?
A:
好。
Hǎo.
Shīfu:
您要买几斤？
Nín yào mǎi jǐ jīn?
A:
我要买一斤。
Wǒ yào mǎi yì jīn.
一共多少钱？
Yígòng* (all together) duōshao qián?
Shīfu:
一共四块一。
Yígòng sì kuài yī.
A:
我给您五块钱。
Wǒ gěi* (to give) nín wǔ kuài qián.
A:
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Shīfu:
我找您九毛钱。
Wǒ zhǎo* (to give change) nín jiǔ máo
谢谢！
qián.
Xièxie!
A:
1
再见！
Zàijiàn!
师傅 Sh fu master is a respectful term to address for workers and people in
the service sector.
Source of pictures and photos:
Clip arts on Office Online http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/
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Conversation: English – Shopping at a market
A:
I would like to eat fruit.
B:
OK.
Let us go to Sanyuanli market.
A:
Hello, Sir!
Shīfu:
Hello! What do you want to buy?
A:
How much does one apple cost?
Shīfu:
One apple costs
0.30.
How many do you want to buy?
A:
I want to buy two apples.
How much does pears cost per kilo?
Shīfu:
One kilo pears cost
A:
Too expensive!
3.80
May I have a cheaper price?
Shīfu:
How about
3.50?
A:
OK.
Shīfu:
How many kilos do you want to buy?
A:
I want to buy one kilo.
How much in total?
Shīfu:
In total
4.10
A:
I give you
Shīfu:
Here is your change.
5.00.
Thank you!
A:
Bye!
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Topic words: Fruit and vegetable37
* Compulsory to learn: you need to recall the word in Pinyin transcriptions.
水果
香蕉
苹果
葡萄
shuǐguǒ*
xiāngjiāo*
píngguǒ*
pútao*
fruit (category)
banana
apple
grapes
MW: 斤
MW: 根/斤
MW: 个/斤
MW: 斤
jīn
gēn / jīn
ge / jīn
jīn
西瓜
梨
桃子
xīguā*
lí
táozi
watermelon
pear
peach
MW: 个/斤
MW: 个/斤
MW: 个/斤
ge / jīn
ge / jīn
ge / jīn
青菜
菜
qīngcài*
cài*
vegetable (cate-
vegetables; dish
gory)
(type of food)
MW: 斤
MW: 道
jīn
dào
Source of pictures and photos:
Clip arts on Office Online http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/
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Asking the price38
kèrén: 一个苹果多少钱？
Yí ge píngguǒ duōshao qián?
How much does one apple cost?
shīfu:
一个苹果三块钱。
Yí ge píngguǒ sān kuài qián.
One apple costs 3 dollars.
kèrén: 一斤苹果多少钱？
Yì jīn píngguǒ duōshao qián?
How much do apples cost per kilo?
shīfu:
一斤苹果十五块钱。
Yì jīn píngguǒ shíwǔ kuài qián.
One kilo apples cost 15 dollars.
Price List
￥3.00
￥2.10
￥0.60
￥3.40
How many kilos do you want to buy?
shīfu:
你要买几斤？
Nǐ yào mǎi jǐ jīn?
How many kilos do you want to buy?
kèrén:
我要买三斤。
Wǒ yào mǎi sān jīn.
I want to buy 3 kilos.
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Negotiating the price 1
kèrén: (葡萄)太贵了! 可以便宜一点儿吗?
(Pútao) tài guì le!
Kěyǐ piányi yìdiǎnr (a little
bit) ma?
Grapes are too expensive. May I have a cheaper price?
shīfu: 不贵, 很便宜!
Bú guì, hěn piányi.
They are not expensive all at. They are cheap!
kèrén: 算了！我不买了！
Suàn le! Wǒ bù mǎi le!
Forget it! I don’t buy them!
Negotiating the price 2
kèrén: (葡萄)太贵了! 可以便宜一点儿吗?
(Pútao) tài guì le!
Kěyǐ piányi yìdiǎnr ma?
Grapes are too expensive. May I have a cheaper price?
shīfu: 可以。一斤一块二, 怎么样？
Kěyǐ.
Yì jīn yí kuài èr, zěnmeyàng?
Yes, you may. How about ￥1.2 per kilo?
kèrén: 好，我买三斤。
Hǎo, wǒ mǎi sān jīn.
OK. I want to buy 3 kilos.
Source of pictures and photos:
Clip arts on Office Online http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/
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Chinese Rénmínbì (RMB)39
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The official name of the currency is Rénmínbì: RMB (￥).
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The name of a unit of the renminbi currency is Yuan (yuán). The colloquial
form of Yuán is kuài.
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The smaller units are jiǎo (formal form) / máo (colloquial form) dime and
fēn cent. [[1 yuán/kuài = 10 jiǎo/máo; 1 yuán/kuài = 100 fēn]]
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Euro € Equivalent
(1 Euro = 8.52 RMB as of 01-06-2014)
Notes
100 yuán/kuài
50 yuán/kuài
20 yuán/kuài
10 yuán/kuài
5 yuán/kuài
1 yuán/kuài
5 jiǎo/máo (dime) =
0.5 yuán/kuài
1 jiǎo/máo (dime) =
0.1 yuán/kuài
Source of images:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi
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Taiwanese New Taiwan Dollars (NTD)40
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The official name of the currency is Xīntáibì: TWD (NT$).
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The name of a unit of the TWD currency is Yuan (yuán). The colloquial
form of Yuán is kuài.
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Euro € Equivalent
(1 Euro = 40.93 TWD as of 01-06-2014)
Notes
1000 yuán/kuài
500 yuán/kuài
200 yuán/kuài
100 yuán/kuài
50 yuán/kuài
10 yuán/kuài
5 yuán/kuài
1 yuán/kuài
Source of images:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Taiwan_dollar
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Hong Kong Dollars (HKD)41
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The official name of the currency is Gǎngyuán: HKD (HK$).
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The name of a unit of the HKD currency is Yuan (yuán).
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The smallest unit is háo (dime = 10 cent). [[1 yuán = 10 háo]]
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Euro € Equivalent
(1 Euro = 10.57 HKD as of 01-06-2014)
Notes
Coins
1000 yuán
500 yuán
100 yuán
50 yuán
20 yuán
10 yuán
5 yuán
1 yuán
5 háo (dime) =
0.5 yuán
2 háo (dime) =
0.2 yuán
1 háo (dime) =
0.1 yuán
Source of images:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_dollar
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Grammar: Renminbi (Spoken) Introduction
* Compulsory to learn: you need to recall the word in Pinyin transcriptions.
Speech Pattern – RMB Spoken
RMB
汉字
Pinyin
￥
块
kuài* (dollar)
1/10
毛
máo* (dime, ten cents)
1/100
分
fēn* (cent)
Rénmínbì
Basic unit
￥0.05
五分（钱）
wǔ fēn (qián)
￥0.10
一毛（钱）
yì máo (qián)
￥0.85
八毛五（分钱）
bā máo wǔ (fēn qián)
￥1.00
一块钱
yí kuài qián
两块钱
liǎng kuài qián
￥1.20
一块二（毛钱）/
一块两毛
yí kuài èr (máo qián)/
￥2.50
两块五毛（钱） /
两块半
liǎng kuài wǔ máo (qián)/
￥4.73
四块七毛三（分钱）
sì kuài qī máo sān (fēnqián)
￥10.06
十块零六分
shí kuài líng liù f
￥10.50
十块半
shí kuài bàn*
￥37.41
三十七块四毛一（分钱）
￥90.05
九十块零五分
ji
￥100.30
一百块零三毛
yì bǎi kuài líng sān máo
￥2.00
yí kuài liǎng máo
liǎng kuài bàn
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n
sānshíqī kuài sì máo yī (fēn
qián)
shí kuài líng w
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Rule 1 When there is one unit in the amount, add “qián” after the amount.
￥3,00
￥0,60
￥0,09
Rule 2 When there are two or three units in the amount, drop the final unit.
￥0,36
￥1,60
￥8,45
Rule 3 Use bàn (half) to replace 50 cents.
￥4,50
￥7,50
￥50,50
Rule 4 When the unit of “máo” is missing, add líng (zero).
￥5,06
￥7,03
￥10,04
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Exercise: Say the following amount in Chinese.
￥5.00 ￥10.00 ￥0.90 ￥0.40 ￥0.02 ￥0.05 ￥2.85
￥4.79 ￥8.11 ￥20.43 ￥52.67 ￥73.02 ￥10.08 ￥100.70
Exercise 2: Write the following amount in Chinese.
1
￥5.00
2
￥10.00
3
￥0.90
4
￥0.40
5
￥0.02
6
￥0.05
7
￥2.85
8
￥4.79
9
￥8.11
10
￥20.43
11
￥52.67
12
￥73.02
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￥10.08
14
￥100.70
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Pair-work: Shopping Mǎidōngxi42
This sheet is for kèrén.
One student acts as shīfu and the other acts as kèrén.
Kèrén needs to buy the following items. Kèrén negotiates the prices with shīfu
till that he/she agrees with the price.
Shénme shuǐguǒ?
1.
Yì jīn _____.
Wǒ mǎi ___ jīn.
2.
Yì jīn _____.
Wǒ mǎi ___ jīn.
3.
Yí ge _____.
Wǒ mǎi ____ ge.
4.
Yí ge _____.
Wǒ mǎi ____ ge.
5.
Yí ge _____.
Wǒ mǎi ____ ge.
Source of pictures and photos:
Clip arts on Office Online http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/
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Pair-work: Shopping Mǎidōngxi43
This sheet is for shīfu.
One student acts as sh
fu and the other acts as kèrén.
Kèrén needs to buy the following items. Kèrén negotiates the prices with sh
fu till that he/she agrees with the price.
Shénme shu
gu ?
Original price
The price sold
1.
Yì jīn _____.
Yì jīn _____.
2.
Yì jīn _____.
Yì jīn _____.
3.
Yí ge _____.
Yí ge _____.
4.
Yí ge _____.
Yí ge _____.
5.
Yí ge _____.
Yí ge _____.
Source of pictures and photos:
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Word list
汉字
Pinyin
Meaning
/dish (type of food)/vegetable/cuisine/CL:盤|盘[pán],道
cài
1 菜
[dào]/(coll.) (one's) type/
2 菜市场 càishìchǎng /food market/
fēn
3 分
/cent/
gěi
4 给
/to give/
guì
5 贵
/expensive/noble/your (name)/precious/
jiǎo
6 角
/dime/
jīn
7 斤
/catty/weight equal to 0.5 kg/
/lump (of earth)/chunk/piece/classifier for pieces of cloth,
cake, soap etc/colloquial word for yuan (or other unit of
currency such as Hong Kong or US dollar etc), usually as 塊
kuài
錢|块钱/
8 块
lí
/pear/CL:個|个[gè]/
9 梨
mǎi
10 买
/to buy/to purchase/
毛
便宜
苹果
葡萄
máo
15 钱
16 青菜
qián
师傅
水果
桃子
西瓜
香蕉
一共
元
找
shīfu
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12
13
14
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
piányi
píngguǒ
pútao
qīngcài
shuǐguǒ
táozi
xīguā
xiāngjiāo
yígòng
yuán
zhǎo
/dime/
/cheap/
/apple/CL:個|个[gè],顆|颗[kē]/
/grape/
/coin/money/CL:筆|笔[bǐ]/unit of weight, one tenth of a
tael 兩|两[liǎng]/
/green vegetables/Chinese cabbage/
/master/qualified worker/respectful form of address for
older men/CL:個|个[gè],位[wèi],名[míng]/
/fruit/CL:個|个[gè]/
/peach/
/watermelon/CL:顆|颗[kē],粒[lì],個|个[ge5]/
/banana/CL:枝[zhī],根[gēn],個|个[gè],把[bǎ]/
/altogether/
/dollar/
/to give change/
Note. CL= Classifier = Measure Word in Chinese
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