Chinese For Dummies (85 page)

Zǎoshàng hǎo.
早上好
. (dzaow-shahng how.) (
Good morning.
)

Making a presentation

When you want to give a presentation during the meeting, here are some words that you may want to use:

bǎnzi
板子
(bahn-dzuh) (
board
)

biǎogé
表格
(byaow-guh)
(
charts
)

cǎibǐ
彩笔
(
彩筆
)
(tsye-bee) (
marker
)

caí liào
材料
(tsye-lyaow) (
handouts
)

chātú
插图
(
插圖
) (chah-too) (
illustrations
)

fěnbǐ
粉笔
(
粉筆
) (fun-bee) (
chalk
)

huàbǎn
画板
(
畫板
) (hwah-bahn) (
easel
)

túbiāo
图表
(
圖表
) (too-byaow) (
diagrams
)

Planning to go high-tech instead? In that case, you may want one of these:

huàndēngjī
幻灯机
(
幻燈機
)
(hwahn-dung-jee) (
slide projector
)

píngmù
屏幕
(peeng-moo) (
screen
)

PowerPoint yǎnshì
PowerPoint
演示
(PowerPoint yan-shir) (
PowerPoint presentation
)

tòu yǐng piàn
透影片
(toe yeeng pyan) (
transparency
)