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Mooncakes for the Staff

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ID: 2277 Pre Intermediate
Glorified paperweights or delicious traditional Chinese treats? Every autumn, Chinese offices are inundated with mooncakes - sweet, impossibly dense confections made to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival. In this lesson, a boss decides what kind of mooncakes to give his employees.
Mon Sep 16 2013 | Vera, John
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中秋节 Zhōngqiūjié Mid-Autumn Festival
员工 yuángōng employee
月饼 yuèbǐng mooncake
发 fā to send; to give out
老板，中秋节马上要到了。要不要给员工买些月饼啊？
lǎobǎn ，Zhōngqiūjié mǎshàng yào dào le 。yào bu yào gěi yuángōng mǎi xiē yuèbǐng a ？
Boss, Mid-Autumn Festival will be here soon. Do you want to buy some mooncakes to give to the staff?
现在还有公司发月饼吗？
xiànzài hái yǒu gōngsī fā yuèbǐng ma ？
Nowadays do companies still give out mooncakes?
大多数公司都发，只有少数不发。
dàduōshù gōngsī dōu fā ，zhǐ yǒu shǎoshù bù fā 。
Most companies give them out. There are only a few that don't.
月饼有什么好吃的？我每年都要扔掉好多。
yuèbǐng yǒu shénme hǎochī de ？wǒ měinián dōu yào rēngdiào hǎo duō 。
What's so good about mooncakes? Every year I throw away lots of them.
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