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1.6 Listening for Information

Mandarin Chinese · Grade 7 · 3 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Food shops: 肉店, 面包店, 蔬菜店, 超市, 饭店
  • Shopping-list foods: 鸡肉, 牛肉, 羊肉, 猪肉, 面包, 蛋糕, 饼干, 米饭, 面条, 大饼
  • Quantities 斤 and 公斤; listening for key items and amounts

What you will be able to do

  • outline food and shop vocabulary from a short listening text
  • extract key information (item, place, quantity) from a shopping recording

Key questions

“How can you obtain the key points in oral communication?”

Lessons

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  1. Five food places
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Match 肉店, 面包店, 蔬菜店, 超市 and 饭店 to pictures and catch the shop name in a short clip.
  2. The shopping list
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Say list items 鸡肉, 牛肉, 羊肉, 猪肉, 面包, 蛋糕, 饼干, 米饭, 面条, 大饼 and catch them in order from a clip.
  3. A jin and a kilo
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Listen for quantities 斤 and 公斤, simulate a food shop, and explain why a list protects your 先令.