At the clothes store Situation: You just got to Beijing and the

airline lost your luggage. You’re in urgently need for buying some personal items, because tomorrow you have a very important meeting with the director of the ABC company. As you come out of the airport you take a Taxi and ask the Taxi-driver to take you to the nearest shopping center.

At the taxi: Situation 1• Taxi driver: zǎo shàng hǎo. nín qù nǎ？ Good morning. Where are you going?

• Yourself: wǒ yào qù xī dān I need to go to Xi dan.

(1 hour later)

• Taxi driver: dào le. (We are here.)

• Yourself: duō shǎo qián (How much is it?)

• Taxi drive: 100 yuan (100 yuán.)

At the clothes store: Situation 2

Shopping with Peggy Lee

http://youtu.be/zEvjyh-T3ag

Expressions to learn from Peggy’s video

1. xiàn zài yǒu zhé kòu ma? Is there a discount now?

2. kě yǐ shì chuān ma ? Can I try it on?