You are learning reservations: you will read the scene it happens in, learn 10 words and phrases, take apart the pattern behind them (reservation grammar & specifying details), hear them in a conversation, rehearse them, and finish by saying one thing out loud to be graded.
Booking a table at 福1088 Fu 1088, one of Shanghai's most storied private-kitchen restaurants, hidden behind a garden wall in the former French Concession.
Fu 1088 is hidden. You walk down Zhenning Road in the former French Concession, past plane trees, past nothing remarkable — and then a wooden door in a wall opens into a 1930s villa surrounded by a private garden. It is the kind of restaurant you cannot find unless someone tells you it exists.
The stranger calls: 「您好，我需要订一个位子，四位，这周六晚上七点左右。」
「这周六……让我查一下。」 A pause. 「七点有一个花园旁边的位子，安静，很适合四个人。需要定金吗？」
「不需要定金，但请帮我确认一下。」 No deposit, but please confirm. 「好的，我会发确认短信给您。请问有没有忌口？」
「一位朋友不吃辣。」 One friend doesn't eat spicy. 「没问题，我们会安排。周六见！」