Audio script
Johnny: Happy New Year!
Fadi: Stop, please! Enough New Year!
Johnny: It’s the first time I’ve seen you this year! You’re supposed to say ‘Happy New Year!’
Fadi: OK,OK... Happy New Year to you too, then!
Johnny: It will be Chinese New Year soon – then we can do it all again!
Fadi: Fine, OK, let’s wait until then, though, eh?
Magda: Hello everyone!
Fadi /Johnny: Hi!
Magda: Happy New Year!
Fadi: Oh, please!
Magda: I’m only trying to be friendly...
Fadi: Yeah, sure, sorry... Can we think about something else now please?
Magda: Have you made any New Year’s resolutions?
Johnny: New Year’s what?
Magda: New Year’s resolutions. Olivia told me about it - at the beginning of the year, you should decide to do something, and do it all year.
Johnny: What kind of thing?
Fadi: Something like stop smoking, or go to the gym every day, or study more...
All: Hi Olivia! Hey! Hello!
Olivia: Hmmph. Tony – could I have a large coffee please? Make it extra strong!
Fadi: Looks like someone’s having a bad day!
Olivia: Oh shut up Fadi!
Fadi: Sorry!
Magda: What’s up, Olivia?
Olivia: My website isn’t working properly. I need to fix it.
Fadi: Here’s the right man to help you!
Harry: Hello there! Are you talking about me?
Olivia: I’ve got problems with my website again...
Harry: I told you I should have set it up the first time! You should have asked me!
Olivia: OK, OK... you were right...
Harry: So what’s the problem?
Olivia: The online sales page doesn’t work. People can’t buy my shoes!
Harry: I’m sure I can help fix it.
Olivia: Go on then. Come over to my flat tonight, and we’ll have a look.
Bindyu: Oh, sorry Olivia. I’m not sure he can come to your flat tonight.
Harry: Yeah, I can. I’m not busy tonight.
Bindyu: I thought we were going to the cinema?
Harry: Were we? Sorry, I didn’t know. I’d like to help Olivia, if I can...
Bindyu: Hmmphh.
Olivia: Oh, listen Harry... don’t worry if you can’t come and help.
Harry: No. I’ll come. I love websites – you know!
Johnny: Here’s another one of our friends... Thank goodness for that...
All: Hello Carlos!
Carlos: Hello there!
Magda: We were talking about New Year’s resolutions. What’s yours?
Carlos: New Year’s what?
Magda: New Year’s resolution - at the beginning of the year, you should decide to do something, and do it all year.
Carlos: Oh, I see... well, I want to be a chef...
Fadi: We know that, it’s not new.
Johnny: It has to be something new!
Magda: Yes – something you want to do this year!
Carlos: Oh. OK... I see, well... let me think... something I want to do this year... I know, I want to ask Sarah out on a date!
All: Wow!
Magda: Oh... well... it looks like you have a chance right now, Carlos!
Sarah: Hello everyone! Were you talking about me?
Carlos: Well, no, erm yes, I mean...
Magda: Go on, Carlos!
Fadi: Carlos has got a question to ask you...
Sarah: Oh, yes?
Carlos: Oh, yes, erm... well... I was wondering if... erm...
Sarah: If?
Carlos: Yes, if you’d like to...erm... I don’t know... perhaps... erm... go out some time?
Sarah: Go out with you?
Carlos: Well, yeah, I mean, if you want to...
Sarah: Oh, well... erm... what I think is...
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Hi Avery one ....
I'm new here and I love learning English...
Thanks for excellent page.....
Nice episode! Task 4 enjoy me, especially, when i tried to find the opposite word of small, i spent a lot of time there, at this moment i was thinking about the one correct answer "big")) i tried seriously search it again and again, but on the field was only four letters "i", with which i could make combination of the word "big", but it wasn't possible in the reason of rules, only cross, diagonal and line)) 1 minute after - yes, i guessed the right answer is "large". I was was very glad, when i came to this after a while!!))
1. About listening:
I can't hear clearly the last words of the sentence "Let's wait until then, though" and these sounds: should have set it up; Should have asked me
The way to link sounds among words? Help me please!
1. Why use simple past and past continous tense in the sentence "I thought we were going to the cinema"?
team
Hello an-ttt!
I am not sure what to say about your first question - what are you missing about then, though?
For Should have set it up & Should have asked me, is it the have sound that you are missing? This is called a weak form, and is quite common. Rather than stress every word, we use an unstressed syllable for have because it is not very important. It sounds a bit like 'uv', and is quite common. Listen out for it!
As for your grammar question, this is a statement about past plans. What this means is that Bindi and Harry had an arrangement. For arrangements, we use present continuous ("We are going to the cinema"). When plans change, we use the past tense to talk about the old plan - Harry was going to the Cinema, but now he is going to Olivia's house.
The thought just means at first Bindi thought she and Harry had a plan - but now she thinks something else.
Hope that helps!
Regards
Jeremy Bee
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello. My name is Alla. I'm a 20 year old and living in the Armenia's capital Yerevan. It's my first comment in this site.
I wanna desire you happy new year. Let our many dreams come through in 2013. One year it's a long time for the reach a lot of goals.
I wanna better my knowlladge of the English language.
I happy, that can join to Learn English team. I have a hope, that in this year i will improve my language memory and would develop that.
Thanks.
Task 4 is awesome!! Very excited!!
Is the game name "cross-word" ??
team
Hello Anh,
I'm glad you like it! It's called a wordsearch, not a crossword.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team