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...
Comments
Thank you so much guys!It was an excellent episode.
Very good episode, thanks!.
thank you
Thank you very much
Dear English Team,
I hope you are well and happy. I have a question that could you recommend any novels for intermediate English level student. if yes how can we get it? as here in Afghanistan it is difficult to find it. if it is possible to you to put in your website a few books like novels or other prose books according to the student level it might quench English learners reading thirst.
Hello Omer Gul,
I can't really recommend novels without knowing a lot more about you. However, I can point you to the Project Gutenberg, where you can find many free books.
You can do a search for books you know there, and you could also search for 'graded' to see if they have books for people learning English.
I hope that's helpful.
Best wishes,
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Learn English Team,
I'm from Vietnam and I'm new here. I'm very excited to find out this useful website.
Could you please explain to me why Bindyu says:"I thought we were going to the cinema?"? Why does she use past tense when something doesn't happen?
Thank you in advance!
Hello TUAT,
If we are talking about a plan which is still true then we say
I think we are going to the cinema [I think this now, and this is still the plan]
When our understanding of the plan has changed and we want to talk about the old plan we say
I thought we were going to the cinema [I don't think this any more, and the plan is different]
Best wishes,
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
my new year resolution I have to give up smoking and drinking wine. and I like this episode very nice
Hi everyone!
This topic it's really interesting, because it's something that everybody must think about it.When the new year it's coming some times everybody want to change something and this is a good time to tray to change. So let's do it!
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