You are learning plans & intentions: you will read the scene it happens in, learn 10 words and phrases, take apart the pattern behind them (intention & future plans), hear them in a conversation, rehearse them, and finish by saying one thing out loud to be graded.
Planning a Shanghai food tour with a local friend. From the morning xiaolongbao queue to a midnight stroll on the Bund, every sentence starts with 打算 — the grammar of intention.
The stranger sits at a café on Yongkang Road, a notebook open, a map of Shanghai spread across the table. His friend Mei sits across from him, sipping iced oolong. 「你打算在上海待几天？」 she asks.
「五天。我想做一个美食之旅。」 Five days. A food tour. Mei's eyes light up. She takes his pen. 「我帮你安排！」
Day one: 「先去佳家汤包吃小笼包，再去城隍庙逛逛。」 Day two: 「我打算带你去福1088，他们的红烧肉值得特地去。」 Day three: she writes 南翔馒头店 — the original xiaolongbao temple inside Yu Garden. Day four: a wet market morning, then lunch at 老吉士.
「五天够吗？」 he asks. Mei laughs. 「在上海，五天只是开始。」 In Shanghai, five days is just the beginning.