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LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast Magazine No. 04
Section 6 - Carolina
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Section 6 follows Carolina – a girl who has come to the United Kingdom (UK) to live, study, and to have fun exploring a different country and culture. Listening to this can help you if you find yourself in a similar situation. You will see that there is often more than one way of saying the same thing in English.
Suggestion: listen to Carolina on the podcast, and then do exercises 1 and 2.
Practice materials - Exercise 1
Put the phrases in the correct places in the conversation
Practice materials - Exercise 2
Choosing phrases that are NOT correct
Practice materials - Exercise 3
Now complete this conversation giving your own answers. Imagine you are talking to a friend on the train. Look at the menu to decide what you want to eat and drink - and in this dialogue, you’re going to pay for what you and your friend have.
You can practise this conversation with a friend.
Toasted sandwiches Cheese and tomato £3.45
Cheese and ham £3.45 Sandwiches Chicken and salad £3.35
Cheese and salad £3.35
Tuna and salad £3.35 Snacks Crisps 90p
Mixed nuts £1.50
Fruit cake £1.50
Packet of biscuits £1.35 Drinks Coke, Diet Coke £90p
Coffee £1.50
Tea £1.40
Fresh orange juice £1.40
Beer (bottle) £2.70 |
You: …………………………………………?
Your friend: Sorry, I’ll move my bag. Where are you going?
You: …………………………………………
Your friend: Me too. Do you live there?
You: ………………………………………….
…………………………………………?
Your friend: Yeah. I’m at the university. It’s a great city. You aren’t English are you?
You: …………………………………………
Your friend: Cool. You speak really good English.
You: …………………………………………
Your friend: I’m going to get a coffee or something. Do you want anything?
You: …………………………………………?
Your friend: They’ve got sandwiches and stuff. There’s the list on the wall. What would you like? Have a toasted sandwich – they’re good.
You: …………………………………………
Your friend: And to drink?
You: …………………………………………. Here, I’ll get it.
Assistant: Can I help you?
You: …………………………………………
…………………………………………?
Assistant: That’s [ …………………………………………] please *Note: you need to calculate this!
You: …………………………………………
Assistant: And that’s [ …………………………………………] change. Thank you. Note: you need to calculate this, too!
You: …………………………………………
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Transcript
Tess: Now it’s time to meet Carolina again. As you probably remember, Carolina is a Venezuelan student and she’s visiting Britain for the first time. She’s going to Newcastle, in the north east of England. She’s going to live and study there, and of course, have a lot of fun – we hope! In the last podcast we listened to Carolina’s conversation at the underground station. She was going to King’s Cross station to get the train to Newcastle.
Ravi: That’s right. And she was worried that she didn’t have time to get to the station to catch her train.
Tess: But everything was all right. Carolina caught her train – with only a few minutes to spare. So let’s listen now to what happened on the train to Newcastle.
Carolina: Excuse me, is anyone sitting here?
Jamie: No, it’s free. Sorry, I’ll move my bag.
Voice over PA system: …situated towards the front of the train. We would like to remind passengers that coach F, at the rear of the train, is the Quiet Coach. If you are sitting in coach F, please use all electronic equipment quietly and switch mobile phones to silent mode. Please be considerate to other passengers. Thank you.
Carolina: Coach F?
Jamie: Yeah, this is a Quiet Coach. There’s a sign - look. No mobile phone conversations. No noise. It’s cool. I hate listening to other people’s conversations.
Carolina: Oh, OK. I didn’t know. It’s a good idea.
Jamie: Yeah. Where are you going?
Carolina: Newcastle.
Jamie: Me too. Do you live there?
Carolina: No, I’m going to study there – at the university. What about you? Do you live there?
Jamie: Yeah. I’m at the university too. It’s a great city. You aren’t English are you.
Carolina: No, I’m Venezuelan.
Jamie: Cool. You speak really good English.
Carolina: Thank you. My mother’s English, but I’ve never been to Britain before. It’s all a bit strange.
Man on train: Hello? Dan? Yes, hi, how’s it going? Yes, I’m on the train. Yeah? Yeah it finished at six o’clock more or less….
Woman on train: Excuse me! This is a quiet coach. Could you have your conversation in the corridor?
Man on train: What? Uh? Yeah, OK, sorry. Yeah, Dan, sorry, what did you say? I didn’t hear you, I’m in the quiet coach - some woman was complaining about …
Jamie: I’m going to get a coffee or something. D’you want anything?
Carolina: Erm, I don’t know, what have they got?
Jamie: Come with me then, you can have a look. They’ve got sandwiches and stuff too.
Carolina: OK.
Jamie: There you go – there’s the list on the wall. What d’you fancy?
Carolina: Fancy? What do you mean?
Jamie: Sorry. What would you like. What do you fancy means what would you like.
Carolina: Do you think I can pay with my visa card? I still haven’t got any English money – I lost my bag, and then I nearly missed the train …
Jamie: Don’t worry about it. This one’s on me. I’ll pay. Have a toasted sandwich – they’re good. Cheese and tomato?
Carolina: Cheese with tomato? In a toasted sandwich?
Jamie: Delicious!
Carolina: Oh no!
Jamie: What about cheese and ham then?
Carolina: Yes, cheese and ham please
Jamie: And to drink? Coke? Orange juice? A beer?
Carolina: Erm, orange juice please.
Assistant: Can I help you?
Jamie: Yes, erm two toasted sandwiches please - one cheese and tomato, one cheese and ham - an orange juice and a coke. How much is that?
Assistant: Two toasted sandwiches, three forty-five each, coke ninety p, orange juice one pound forty, that’s nine pounds twenty please.
Jamie: Here you are.
Assistant: And that’s eighty p change. Thank you.
Carolina:That’s very kind of you. It’s a lot of money. That’s nearly ten pounds.
Jamie: Don’t worry about it. I’m a real gentleman. Tell you what, you can take me out for lunch one day in Newcastle. You can pay for me. I’ll give you my phone number. Is that a deal?
Carolina: OK. It’s a deal.
Jamie: Good. Now let’s sit down and eat these.
Carolina: OK
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