我在咖啡店门口
How to take a taxi in Chinese
Name: ________________ Date: ________
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门口 | ménkǒu | doorway; entrance; gate |
| 出门 | chūmén | to go out |
| 打车 | dǎchē | to take a taxi; to hail a ride |
| 快 | kuài | fast; quick |
| 左边 | zuǒbiān | left; left side |
| 右边 | yòubiān | right side; the right |
| 拿 | ná | to take; to hold; to carry |
| 白色 | báisè | white |
| 手 | shǒu | hand |
| 前面 | qiánmiàn | in front; ahead |
| 笑 | xiào | to laugh; to smile |
| 句 | jù | classifier for phrases and lines of speech or verse |
English (for the teacher)
“Shifu, I’m outside the coffee shop.”
Before she left, Lucy practised that Chinese sentence ten times. It was her first time getting a taxi on her phone in China.
Two minutes later, her phone rang. “Hello? Hi, I’m here.” “Where are you?”
“Shifu, I’m outside the coffee shop!” Lucy said it fast, and she said it well.
“I’m outside the coffee shop too. I can’t see you.”
Lucy looked left, then looked right. “I’m wearing red, and I’ve got my phone in my hand.”
“Everyone here has a phone in their hand.”
Just then, Lucy saw that there was a coffee shop across the road too. A white car was parked outside it, and a man was on the phone. She raised her hand, and the man raised his.
“I see you!” “You’re across the road.” “There are traffic lights up ahead. Come on over.”
Lucy crossed the road and got in the car. The driver asked, “Your phone’s tail number?”
“Tail number?”
“The last four digits of your phone number.”
“Oh! Three six eight eight.”
“Got it. The train station, right?”
“Right!”
Twenty minutes later, the car pulled up at the train station.
“Shifu, just stop here.” “Thank you!”
The moment she got out, her phone rang again. It was her friend. “Are you here yet?” “Where are you?”
Lucy smiled. “I’m outside the coffee shop.”
“I’m outside the coffee shop too.”
This time, Lucy looked across the road first.