A: Good evening. My name is Fabio, I’ll be your waiter for tonight. May I take your order?
B: No, I’m still working on it. This menu is not even in English. What’s good here?
A: For you sir, I would recommend spaghetti and meatballs.
B: Does it come with coke and fries?
**A:**It comes with either soup or salad and a complimentary glass of wine, Sir.
B: I’ll go with the spaghetti and meatballs, salad and the wine.
A: Excellent choice, your order will be ready soon.
B: How soon is soon?
A: Twenty minutes?
B: You know what? I’ll just go grab a burger across the street.
Elementary ‐ Calling In Sick (B0002)
A: Hello, Daniel speaking, how may I help you?
B: Hi, Daniel, Julie here.
A: Hi, Julie, how are you?
B: Actually, I’m feeling quite ill today.
A: I’m sorry to hear that. What’s wrong?
B: I think I’m coming down with the flu. I have a headache, a sore throat a runny nose and I’m feeling slightly feverish.
A: I see... so you’re calling in sick?
B: Yes, I was hoping to take the day off to recover.
A: OK, then. Try and get some rest.
Elementary ‐Daily Life ‐ Hotel Upgrade (C0003)
A: Good afternoon. What can I do for you?
B: I’d like to check in please. I have a reservation
under the name Anthony Roberts.
A: All right R.O.B.E.R.T.S... Oh, Mr. Roberts we’ve
been expecting you& and here is your keycard to
the presidential suite.
B: But there must be some mistake; my reservation
was for a standard room.
A: Are you sure? Let me double check .
B: Yeah&Here, this is my confirmation number.
A: You’re right Mr. Roberts, there seems to be a mixup,
unfortunately we’re oVerbooked at the moment .
B: So&
A: Not to worry. We’re pleased to offer you a complimentary upgrade.
B: Presidential suite baby!
Elementary ‐The Office ‐ I need an assistant! (C0004)
A: ...like I told you before, we just don’t have the resources to hire you an assistant.
B: I understand that, but the fact is we’re understaffed.
A: The timing is just not right. The economy is bad,
and it’s too risky to take on new staff.
B: Yeah, I guess you’re right.... here’s an idea, what
if we hire an intern? She would take some of the weight off my shoulders.
A: She?
B: Yeah, you know, a recent graduate. She could give me a hand with some of these projects and we could keep our costs down.
A: That sounds reasonable... let me see what I can do.
A: Tony, I’d like to introduce you to your new assistant.
B: OK, great! Let’s meet her!
C: Hi, I’m Adam.
B: Oh... hi... I’m Tony...
Elementary ‐Daily Life ‐ Cut In Line (C0005)
A: I can’t believe it took us two hours to get here. The
traffic in New York is unbelievable.
B: Yeah, but just relax honey, we’re here and we’re going on vacation. In a few hours we’ll be in Hawaii, and you’ll be on the golf course.
A: Oh no!Look at that line! It must be a mile long!
There’s no way I’m waiting for another two hours.
B: Honey... don’t...
C: Hey man, the end of the line is over there.
A: Yeah...
C: No seriously, I was here first, and you can’t cut in
line like this.
A: Says who?
C: I do!
A: So sue me!
C: Alright...that’s it....
Elementary ‐ The Weekend ‐ Road Trip (C0006)
A: So, are we all ready to go?
B: Yup, I think so. The car’s packed; we have
munchies and music, and the map’s in the car.
A: Did you get the camera?
B: Got it! Did you fill up the tank?
A: Yup, it’s all set.
B: You’re sure we’re not forgetting anything?
A: I’m sure... we’ve got all our bases covered.
B: Well& let’s get going then! I love road trips!
B: Um... do you think we can make a pit stop?
A: But we’ve only been on the road for ten minutes.
B: I know, but I forgot to go to the bathroom before
we left.
Elementary ‐ The Office ‐ Virus! (C0007)
A: Oh great! This stupid computer froze again! Thats the third time today! Hey Samuel, can you come take a look at my PC? Its acting up again. It must have a virus or something.
B: Just give me a second; Ill be right up.
B: I ran a virus scan on your computer, and it turns
out that you have a lot of infected files!
A: But Im quite careful when Im browsing the
internet, I have no idea how I could have picked
up a virus.
B: Well, you have to make sure that your anti-virus software is updated regularly; yours wasn’t up to date, that’s probably what was causing your problems.
A: Ok. Anything else?
B: Yeah, try not to kick or hit the computer!
A: Um yeah& Sorry about that.
Elementary ‐ Daily Life ‐ What’s your name again? (C0008)
A: Nick! How’s it going?
B: Oh, hey...
A: What are you doing in this neighbourhood? Do
you live around here?
B: Actually, my office is right around the corner.
A: It was great to meet you last week at the conference. I really enjoyed our conversation about foreign
investment.
B: Yeah, yeah, it was really interesting. You know, I’m in a bit of a hurry, but here’s my card. We should definitely meet up again and continue our discussion.
A: Sure, you still have my contact details, right ?
B: You know what, this is really embarrassing, but
your name has just slipped my mind. Can you
remind me?
A: Sure, my name is Ana Ferris. Don’t worry about
it; it happens to me all the time. I’m terrible with
names too.
Elementary ‐ The Weekend ‐ Silence please! (C0009)
A: Those people in front of us are making so much
noise. Its so inconsiderate!
B: Dont worry about it; it’s not such a big deal.
A: Oh... I cant hear a thing! Excuse me, can you
keep it down?
C: Sure, sorry ’bout that!
A: Someones phone is ringing!
B: Honey, I think its your phone. Did you forget to
switch it off?
A: Oh, no! Youre right. Thats so embarrassing!
C: Do you mind keeping it down? Im trying to
watch a movie here!
Elementary ‐ The Office ‐ Driving Sales (C0010)
A: All right, people. We’re holding this meeting today because we’ve got to do something about our sales, and we need to do it NOW! I want concrete solutions. How do you intend to drive sales... Roger?
B: Well, in fact, we’re the most expensive in the market, so maybe we need to lower our prices to match the competitors?
A: Lower our prices? Not very creative. It’ll never fly with Swan. What kind of thinking is that? Geez. Anybody else have a better plan? Natalie?
C: Um, perhaps, um, a sales promotion. Maybe a two-for-one offer, or something like that!
A: What? That’s the same thing. Bad idea. Really bad idea. Dammit people come on! Think! The CEO will be here any minute.
D: Do we have any ideas yet?
C: Yes Mr. Swan, we were kind of considering a twofor-
one offer to get more competitive.
D: A two-for-one promotion? Hmm. I kind of like the
sound of that. It sounds like something we should
consider.
A: Yeah, exactly. Just what I was thinking! In fact,
that’s a brilliant idea! I’m glad we thought of that.
Very creative.