3. Dialogues

1.

Helen: Would you like to see my bedroom?

Kitty: Oh, I'd love to. What a nice wardrobe, is it walnut?

Helen: Yes, it matches the bed and the dressing-table.

Kitty: Did you embroider the bedspread and the curtains yourself?

Helen: No, that's Mother's work; she also did the lampshade for the reading lamp

on the bedside table.

Kitty: Oh, how pretty they are. I see you've got a built-in cabinet here. What do

you keep in it?

Helen: 1 keep some pillow slips and sheets, a spare blanket and even a pillow there.

2.

Martin: Have you already moved into your new flat?

Sharon: Oh, yes, we have, and we expect you to come to our housewarming party

next Sunday.

Martin: Thank you, I'II be very glad to come. Is it a two-room flat?

Sharon: Yes, a very nice one, with all modern conveniences.

Martin: Is it in a multistoreyed house?

Sharon: It's a four-storeyed dwelling house built by the City Municipals. It's a five

minute walk from an underground station.

Martin: Weren't you sorry to leave your old home?

Sharon: More than I can tell. The neighbours were old fellow-workers and I miss

them awfully. But you can't compare the new flat with the old one. You'll

see it yourself. Take your children along with you.

Martin: Yes, sure. Thank you.

3. Ann Has no Taste

Jane: Ann has no taste at all. Her room is simply awful.

Bob: Awful Why? What's wrong with it? What is it like?

Jane: It's rather small. There is a big table in the middle. There's always some food on the table and a big old suitcase under it. There's a long narrow bed by the window and there are some old chairs between the bed and the table. There also are some awful pictures on the walls. The one over the bed is simply shocking. And the lamp! Well... I wouldn't like to comment on that.

Bob: Is she very poor?

Jane: No, she isn't. She's quite well off.

Bob: Then why is she living in a room like that?

Jane: She has no taste, poor dear.

Bob: She's very much like my aunt Flora. She has a lot of money, but she's very unwilling

Ex.1 Find the logical order of the following parts of the dialogue.

A New Apartment Downtown

1 . A: Here is a letter from my older sister. They have moved into a new apartment

downtown. She's happy!

2. . B: Oh, what about going there for our winter holidays?

3. . A: No, it isn't. There are not many four- or five-storey buildings there yet.

There are a lot of small houses and cottages with gardens, orchards and vegetable plots there. Our parents have a house like that. It's a very beautiful little house surrounded with trees and flower beds. But it doesn't have any modern conveniences.

4 . B: So, your sister and her husband have a room and their mother has a room

of her own. Their daughter has a room as well. And the fourth room?

5 . A: No, he is a mechanic. There are a number of young families in that new

house.

6. . B: At last! Their city is not very large, is it?

7. . A: Four and with all modern conveniences: hot and cold water, central heating,

a gas-range, built-in cupboards.

8. . B: Is your sister's apartment big? How many rooms are there?

9. . A: They're four: my sister, her husband, her mother-in-law and their little

daughter.

10. B: It is different from our big city with crowds of people everywhere...

11. A: Not yet. But they are lucky that they have such a good apartment.

12. B: Your sister's husband is an engineer, isn't he?

13. A: Not a bad idea. There are many fields and woods in the area. The scenery is very beautiful, the air is pure, the snow is always white.

14. B: How many are they in the family?

15. A: I think, it's for the family or for their guests.

16. B: Are they on the phone yet?

Ex.2 Expand the situation introduced by the opening sentences.