Lesson 12

Dialogue I

(At a restaurant)

Waitress: Please come in. `

Miss Li: How come there are so many people? It looks like there's not a single

seat (table) left.

Mr. Wang: Excuse me, are there any tables left?

Waitress: Yes. That table is vacant.

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Waitress: What would you two like?

Miss Li: Why don't you order, Old Wang.

Mr. Wang: All right. First give us thirty dumplings. Vegetarian ones.

Waitress: Anything else besides the dumplings?

Mr. Wang: A plate of home-style tofu. Don't put any meat in it. We are

vegetarians.

Waitress: There's no meat in our home-style tofu.

Miss Li: Two hot-and-sour soups. Don't put MSG in them.

Waitress: O.K. Two hot-and-sour soups. What would you like to drinl`?

Mr. Wang: I'd like a bottle of beer.

Miss Li: I'm really thirsty. Give me a cola.

Waitress: Sure. Thirty dumplings, a plate of home-style tofu, two hot-and-sour

soups, a bottle of beer, a cola. Anything else?

Miss Li: We don't want anything else. That's enough. Miss, we are both

very hungry. Could you rush the orders?

Waitress: No problem, the dishes will be ready in no time.

Dialogue II

(In the Student Dining Hall)

Student: What's good for dinner tonight?

Worker: Chinese or western food?

Student: Chinese food.

Worker: We have sweet-and-sour fish. It's a little bit sour and sweet, and extremely

delicious. Why don't you buy one?

Student: Good. Do you have beef braised in brown sauce today?

Worker: Beefbraised in brown sauce is sold out. It's hot today. How about a

cucumber salad?

Student: Great. And two liang of rice. How much altogether?

Worker: Ten-fifty for the sweet and sour fish. The cucumber salad is four-fifty.

Two liang of rice, that's fifty cents. Fifteen-fifty altogether.

Student: Here is twenty.

Worker: Four-fifty is your change.

Student: I'm sorry. That's not the correct change. This is five-fifty. You gave me

one dollar too much.

Worker: I'm sorry. Thank you.

Student: See you tomorrow.