Beginners' German: Food and drink

Teil 6

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Task 1
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Listen to this customer paying his bill, then rearrange the words from the list below to write down four expressions which correspond to the English equivalents.
das • getrennt • ich • macht • möchte • oder • so • stimmt • zahlen • zusammen

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   I’d like to pay. _________ _________ _________ .
   
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   Together or separately? _________ _________ _________ ?
   
3. 
   That comes to … _________ _________ .
   
4. 
   Keep the change. _________ _________
   

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• 
  Vokabeln
  
• 
  ich hatte I had
  
• 
  kosten cost
  

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Listen to this conversation between a diner and the waitress. Pay particular attention to the prices mentioned, then answer the questions below.
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   What is the price of the salmon steak?
   
2. 
   Which item costs €3.25?
   
3. 
   How much is the herring?
   
4. 
   What does the corrected bill come to?
   
5. 
   How much does the diner give the waitress altogether?
   

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Now listen again, concentrating on the language used by the customer querying the bill. Practise using this language by reading aloud the customer’s part from the transcript as you play the clip.
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Use some of the language you have been learning by taking part in a dialogue that might take place at the end of a meal with a colleague in a restaurant. You want to pay separately, and you round your own bill up to €20. Begin by calling the waiter and follow the other prompts in the recording. Again, you may want to use the transcript as a model.
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Now listen to some customers paying separately, and note down the price of each item listed below.

• 
  Tee mit Zitrone
  
• 
  Tasse Kaffee
  
• 
  Kännchen Kaffee
  
• 
  Kuchen
  
• 
  Wasser
  

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Language: Numbers 1–100
You have heard some of the numbers from 1 to 100 in the recordings. Here are the numbers 1–10 in writing:
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0 – null 1 – eins 2 – zwei 3 – drei

4 – vier 5 – fünf 6 – sechs 7 – sieben

8 – acht 9 – neun 10 – zehn

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The numbers from 11 to 20 are very similar to English:
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11 – elf 12 – zwölf 13 – dreizehn 14 – vierzehn

15 – fünfzehn 16 – sechzehn 17 – siebzehn 18 – achtzehn

19 – neunzehn 20 – zwanzig

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From 20 onwards, numbers follow a regular pattern:
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21 – einundzwanzig 22 – zweiundzwanzig 23 – dreiundzwanzig 24 – vierundzwanzig

30 – dreißig 40 – vierzig 50 – fünfzig 60 – sechzig

70 – siebzig 80 – achtzig 90 – neunzig 100 – hundert or einhundert

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Note how you say ‘one-and-twenty’ in German rather than ‘twenty-one’.
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