A: Yes, bye. B: Bye. Text 8 A: 2346287.
B: Hello, it’s that Mr Johnson? A: Yes, speaking.
B: I’m phoning about your advertisement in today’s paper about that flat that you have to rent. Is it available?
A: Yes it is. Although somebody else has already phoned about it. B: Could you tell me the address please? A: Yes, it’s 17 Green Street York.
B: Thank you. How many bedrooms has the flat got? A: Two. They are quite big and easily take four people. B: I see. What about the heating and cooking?
A: Well, there are electrical fires all the rooms and cooking is by electricity as well.
B: Thank you. How much is the rent please?
A: It’s 80 pounds a month. The electricity is extra and is on meter. B: If I rent the flat, when will I be able to move in? A: Any time after October the First. B: Thank you. Text 9:
A:Oh, excuse me, Madam? B: Yes?
A: Um, I wonder if you could help me. I’m trying to find a pub called Grey Friar’s Bobby. It’s on the Mond, somewhere down this—off this street.
B:Well, that’s right. Um, have you got a map there? We can have a look at it. A: Yes, Madam, right here.
B: I’ll just show you on it. It’s quite easy. Now you’re just here in Princess Street. What you have to do is walk along a little bit and then turn right, and you
go up the Mond. You see up the hill there. There’s a building.
A: Oh, yeah. The Mond.The Mond is the name of a road, isn’t it? I see. B: That’s right. And you walk past the Assembly Hall. Can you see there up on the hill, if you just look up to your right there? A: That big building up there? OK.
B: That’s right.You just keep on walking past, and you go across the High Street, or the Royal Mile, as we call it. A: Go across it?
B: That’s right. You just keep going, and up on your right hand side, you’ll see a little monument, and that’s the monument to Grey Friar’s Bobby. You know, there was a wee dog. A: Oh, yeah. The dog.
B:Well, if you just go in there, the pub is just next door. I think you’ll find it quite easily.
A: Great! I really appreciate it. Thanks a lot. B: OK. Goodbye! Text 10
Weekend again. Mrs. Bell after her busy work finally gets the time to shop. She has a hard time in the busy traffic. But she is lucky enough to be able to park her car outside the supermarket. Mrs. Bell goes in and finds her trolley. First she goes to the Grocery Department and gets some apples and oranges. Then, coming to the Poultry Department, she gets some steaks. She also picks a bottle of wine, for the weekend dinner party of course. There, she meets Mrs. Young, with her three-year-old daughter. She is sitting in the trolley, as she is too heavy. While Mrs. Bell is talking with Mrs. Young, the three-year-old girl Lily, who is not interested in their talk, finds a bottle of whisky and begins to play with it. Then she puts it in Mrs. Bell’s handbag. Mrs. Bell puts the bottle of wine she selects into her trolley and joins the line of customers before the cashier to have her shopping checked out. A detective happens to be standing nearby and notices Mrs. Bell’s handbag While Mrs. Bell is going towards the exit, the detective stops her and asks her about the bottle of whisky. Mrs. Bell
is shocked. She cannot explain how the bottle of whisky has got into her handbag, so she has to follow the detective into the manager’s office.
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