Section 1: Greetings Hello and goodbye 問候語 - 你好再見

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1 Section 1: Greetings Hello and goodbye 問候語 - 你好再見 How will I achieve my targets? Targets for this section My learning targets to be able to use the correct words for hello, goodbye and thank you to be able to use the correct greeting for the time of day to be able to ask someone how he/she is feeling to be able to give the correct reply when asked how I am Done? When? CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES) 1

goodbye and thank you to be able to use the correct greeting for the time of day to be able to ask someone

2 Key words for this section Cantonese 再見拜拜 English Cantonese English goodbye 好 good bye bye 太好了! great 謝謝 thank you 不太好 not too good 你好嗎? How are you? 還好嗎? How are things? 我很好 I m fine/i am very well 不好 bad/not good 晚上好 evening 很糟 terrible 晚安 night 你呢? And you? 下午好 afternoon 還好早上好早安 not bad; so,so; alright morning 女士 Ms (Miss or Mrs) 你好 hello 小姐 Miss 嗨 hi 太太 Mrs 請 please 先生 Mr/sir 太棒了! awesome 2 CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES)

我很好 I m fine/i am very well 不好 bad/not good 晚上好 evening 很糟 terrible 晚安 night 你呢? And you?

3 Exercise 1.1 On the recording you will hear some people speaking in Cantonese: which greetings are they using? Put a tick in the box under the greeting used by each person. Have a good day bye Hi evening night Hello Person 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4 Person 5 My score CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES) 3

4 Exercise 1.2 Here is the English for what the next people on the recording are saying but it s not in the same order as what you will hear. Put the order of the recorded words in the box after their English meaning. English meaning Order said 1 How are you? 2 Great! 3 Fine, thanks! 4 Not very well. 5 Awesome! 6 Not bad. 7 Terrible! My score 4 CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES)

5 Exercise 1.3 Listen to the six people speaking on the recording. The names of the people they are talking to are printed below. What was said to them? Write down in English the word or phrase you hear being spoken to them. Choose from: hello how are you? good evening great good morning goodbye Andrew 安竹 Peter 彼德 Dalong 大龍 Jamie 杰米 Maria 瑪麗亞 Peilan 佩蘭 My score CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES) 5

Write down in English the word or phrase you hear being spoken to them. Choose from: hello how are you?

6 Exercise 1.4 Listen to the next ten people; who are they speaking to Mr, Mrs or Miss? Put the number of the conversation beside the titles in the grid below as you listen. The first one is done for you. Title Used in numbers Mr Mrs 1 Miss My score 6 CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES)

7 Exercise 1.5 Put the words Mr, Mrs or Miss in the correct box below the greeting said in each sentence on the recording. 1 Have a good day night evening afternoon morning Hello Alright Not very well My score CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES) 7

8 Cantonese spoken here! Your teacher/lecturer will ask you what your response could be in Cantonese in at least two of the situations below: At 11.00pm you go off to bed You greet your best pal on the way to school You get a present from your grandparents You leave your friends to go home In the conversations below, give the best answer in Cantonese to whatever the teacher/lecturer says: he/she might suggest a possible reply like this: (not bad). 1. Teacher/lecturer: Hello! 2. Teacher/lecturer: evening 3. Teacher/lecturer: How are you? 4. Teacher/lecturer: How are you? (alright) (not bad) 5. Teacher/lecturer: How are things? 6. Teacher/lecturer: How are you? (not very well) (fine thanks) 8 CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES)

the best answer in Cantonese to whatever the teacher/lecturer says: he/she might suggest a possible reply like this: (not bad). 1. Teacher/lecturer: Hello! 2. Teacher/lecturer: evening 3.

9 My mini dictionary Cantonese English Cantonese English 再見 goodbye 先生 Mr 拜拜 bye bye 太太 Mrs 謝謝 thank you 小姐 Miss 你好嗎? How are you? 你好 hello 好 good 嗨 hi 很好 very well 你呢? And you? 太好了 great 早上好 or good morning 早安 OK, 還好 OK, alright 下午好 or good afternoon 午安不好 bad 晚上好 good evening 不太好 not very good 晚安 good night CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES) 9

太好了 great 早上好 or good morning 早安 OK, 還好 OK, alright 下午好 or good afternoon 午安不好 bad

10 Questions and answers When people have a conversation, it is often in the form of question and answer: one person asks a question and the other gives an answer. Here are the important questions and answers in this lesson. Try to remember them. Question 问 Answer 答 How are you? 你好嗎? I m fine, thank you. 我很好, 谢谢 Not too good. 不太好 Not bad. 還好 10 CANTONESE (ACCESS 3, CHINESE LANGUAGES)

Here are the important questions and answers in this lesson. Try to remember them.

Very simple: the phrase 'can I' followed by the verb. But what verb form comes after the phrase 'can I'? Listen to these two examples of asking.

Very simple: the phrase 'can I' followed by the verb. But what verb form comes after the phrase 'can I'? Listen to these two examples of asking. BBC Learning English How to Asking permission Hello this is BBC Learning English dot com, with me, Jackie Dalton. This programme is about asking permission which means asking someone if you're allowed

Section 1: Greetings Hello and goodbye 問 候 語 - 你 好 再 見

Section 1: Greetings Hello and goodbye 問候語 - 你好再見