Beginners' German: Food and drink

Teil 6

Task 1

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

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

  1. Ich möchte zahlen.
  2. Zusammen oder getrennt?
  3. Das macht …
  4. Stimmt so. (lit. ‘It’s correct like that.’)

Task 2

  • Vokabeln
  • ich hatte I had
  • kosten cost

1

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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  1. 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?

Answer

  1. €10.75
  2. the beer
  3. €9.25
  4. €12.50
  5. €13.00

Task 3

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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C

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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D

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:

0 – null

1 – eins

2 – zwei

3 – drei

4 – vier

5 – fünf

6 – sechs

7 – sieben

8 – acht

9 – neun

10 – zehn

The numbers from 11 to 20 are very similar to English:

11 – elf

12 – zwölf

13 – dreizehn

14 – vierzehn

15 – fünfzehn

16 – sechzehn

17 – siebzehn

18 – achtzehn

19 – neunzehn

20 – zwanzig

From 20 onwards, numbers follow a regular pattern:

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

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