Stephen: Here’s another box for you, Ash.
Ashlie: Thanks, Stephen. I can’t believe how much stuff I’ve got! I’ve filled all these boxes already.
Stephen: Do you want a hand?
Ashlie: Yes, please. Here you go.
Stephen: Ashlie’s moving into her new flat today.
Ashlie: It’s going to be the perfect place to live. But first I’ve got to finish packing.
Stephen: Ash, are you really keeping this?
Ashlie: Of course I am. It was Grandma’s. It reminds me of her.
Stephen: OK, but you can’t keep everything. There’s a lot of rubbish here.
Ashlie: I'm not taking everything. I'm getting rid of lots of stuff.
Stephen: What shall I do with this?
Ashlie: Ah, OK - that’s rubbish.
Stephen: And this? Rubbish?
Ashlie: Ah, wait! That’s Annabel, I told you. I’ve had her since I was six. Look, if you want to make yourself useful, you can take the boxes down to the van.
Stephen: Alright, alright… This is really heavy. You’ve definitely got too much stuff!
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Ashlie: Great! That’s it. All packed up.
Stephen: Shall we go?
Ashlie: You go on ahead. I’m going to clean up this place, but I’ll meet you at the new flat later.
Stephen: OK. Oh, Pete’s coming over to give us a hand to unload boxes.
Ashlie: Great. Oh, will you get rid of those boxes of rubbish on the way?
Stephen: Sure. See you later.
Ashlie: Great. Thank you. See you.
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Stephen: Hi, Pete.
Pete: Hi, Stephen.
Stephen: Here, help me with this box.
Pete: OK... Wow, that’s heavy. What’s she got in here?
Stephen: Phew, that’s it! My sister’s got too much stuff! Listen, I need your help with a housewarming gift for Ashlie’s new flat.
Pete: That’s nice. What sort of housewarming gift?
Stephen: I want to surprise Ashlie. I want to make this chair look really nice for her new flat.
Pete: OK.
Stephen: There’s some paint and paintbrushes in that box there.
Pete: That’s a great idea; it does look a bit old. I’ll get the paint... Stephen, are you sure Ashlie’s going to like this colour?
Stephen: What? Oh no, Ashlie’s going to kill me! She hates pink. I thought that was white paint.
Ashlie: Oh hiya, Pete. Hi, Stephen. How’s it going?
Pete: Hi, Ash.
Stephen: Oh hi, Ash. Yeah, great. Look, we've brought in all the boxes.
Ashlie: Thanks, guys. So what do you think of my new flat, Pete? I think my antique furniture is going to look great in here.
Pete: Yeah… er… antiques! I’m sure they’ll look great.
Ashlie: It was really kind of you to come and help. And Stephen, you've done a great job too!
Pete: Yeah… er, I think I’m going to go now.
Ashlie: Right. Er, Stephen, what's this? These were the boxes you were supposed to get rid of.
Stephen: Oh no! I'm sure I got rid of all the boxes with rubbish...
Ashlie: Stephen, where is my stuff? Where are those boxes? Where’s my doll, Annabel? Ah, Stephen, where’s my stuff? Er... and what have you done to my chair?
Comments
Hello apc -
Yes, that's perfectly fine!
Regards
Jeremy
The LearnEnglish Team
hello , Nice video. interesting !!. still, it's the thought that counts . he wants to make a surprise gift for her even though everything had messed out. In Egypt we have the same custom of giving a nice present to our friends when they move into a new flat . Actually I am so organized person and i will get upset if what happens to Ashely happens to me. I can't stand loosing any of my stuff. Oh poor Ashely !!! .
Hy everybody, I just passed to say hello to all of you, and say how I am learning with this vídeos. hugs
hi teacher and all learner around the world.well .l just need your help because l don't understand the meaning of this word housewarming and l did not find it in my dictionary.
Hi samiasamou,
You can find this word and an example sentence in the Cambridge Dictionaries Online - just type the word in the search box (on the right of this page) and click on the Look it up! button and you'll see them.
Best wishes,
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
I like this video because I learnt new things. I'm studying English since March but I improve my English in order to study with this videos. Thanks!
Hi
Thankyou very much for this videos, I practice whit these three times per week to improve me English.
One Question: in 3:09 minute, I understand Ashlie say "why", but in transcript is right.
Hi Ariamlope,
It's great that you're listening to carefully! It does sound a little like 'why' because we often hardly say the 't' sound at the end of 'right', so I can understand why you think you hear 'why'. However, having listened to it carefully myself several times I think Ashlie does in fact say 'right', so the transcript is correct.
Best wishes,
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
The episode is great, but can anyone explain me the difference in meaning for:
* what have you done with this chair?
* what did you do to this chair?
and similarly, what the diff btw:
* look, what I've done with this chair
* look, what I did with this chair
?
Hello alexeybandura75,
I'm glad you enjoyed the episode, and thank you for your question.
The answer is that it depends on the context. Usually, we would use the present perfect ('What have you done...') when
We would use the past simple ('What did you do...') when
As you can see, it very much depends on the context. In the video, Ashlie says 'What have you done to my chair?' because she has only just seen it and the result is what she is interested in: '...it didn't look like this before, what have you done?'
You can find more on when to use the present perfect and when to use the past simple here.
I hope that clarifies it for you.
Best wishes,
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
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