Page 4 - Exercise 1B

Introduction

Page 4 - Exercise 1B

Okay Marie, what would you like to drink? Lemonade, please. Okay and I’ll have coffee, I think. Hi Ella, oh hi Pete. This is Marie hi Marie, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too, pete. Marie is from France. She’s staying with me for a couple of weeks. Do you want a drink Pete? No, I’m okay thanks. So you’re from France, whereabouts? Pardon? What does whereabouts mean? Whereabouts, which city? Paris? Oh, yes, Paris. How do you spell that word ,whereabouts? Oh it’s, W H E R E A B O U T S. Whereabouts. Thank you I’m trying to learn lots of new words here. I see my, mom and dad went to Paris for a weekend last year. They said it’s great. Yes it is a very nice city. Is this your first visit to England? Yes it is. Do you like it here? Yes it’s great, but some things are a bit, you know I different from my home. Yes, I suppose they are. How long have you been here? Here, in England? Yes. Two days. I arrived on Friday. How was your journey? My journey? Oh, yes. It was quite long, but it was okay. Did you fly? I’m sorry. I don’t understand. Did you fly? You know, did you come by plane? No, I came with the bus? Oh, you came by coach. Yes, I came by coach. I’m afraid my English isn’t very good. Yes it is. It’s great. I’m hopeless at languages. Sorry again, you repeat that please? I’m hopeless at languages, you know, not very good. Oh, I see. DO you go to school with Ella? Yes where in the same class. Right here we are. Here’s your lemonade Marie. I got some cake too. We’re going to to cinema later Pete. Would you like to come too?