University Life

This dialogue is a conversation between two girl-friends, Mary and Helen. They study in the same group. The bell has already gone and the teacher is going to appear in a minute or two. The girls decided to spend the time chatting. So the conversation begins.

• Mary, could you help me?

• What's the matter, Helen?

• Well, my uncle is going to celebrate his birthday next week. So, I intend to buy something for him today and want you to go to the shop with me after classes.

• I'd be glad to help you, but I have to make a report on Charles Dickens's biography. So, after classes I'll go to the reading-room to prepare it. But I'll be absolutely free tomorrow afternoon, so we'll be able to do our shopping.

• Oh, no! You forget about my training at the sports club. I go there to practise volley-ball every Wednesday.

• Then may be Thursday or Friday will suit you?

• No, Friday is out of the question. Don't you remember that this Friday we are going to the language laboratory? We should take the opportunity of working with cassette-recorders.

• As for me, it always helps me to find out all the mistakes and to get rid of them in the shortest possible time. So, we are going shopping on Thursday.

• OK. Oh, have I already told you that I saw Ann the other day?

• Really? But where did you meet her?

• Well, I went to the library on Sunday to get books for our lessons of History and also some plain English books. By the way, do you think it was right to choose two books by Agatha Christie and a book of O. Henry's stories?

• I do. They are very good authors and famous ones. But you promised to tell me about Ann!

• Oh, I'm sorry. I met her in the library and we began to discuss our studies, then our friends, exams and so on. So, we talked for almost an hour.

• I suppose, she took exams in Physics, Mathematics and something like that.

• Right you are.

• And I'm absolutely sure she passed them all with excellent marks. Ann is awfully responsible and so fond of studies. But for me it's almost impossible to understand how one can like Mathematics!

• I told her these very same words. And for her it's impossible to be fond of English and any other humanities.

• And did you tell her that we passed our exams with good and excellent marks too?

• Of course I did. And I also told her that we had learned Latin for the whole semester.

• She was shocked, I guess.

• Yes, almost. She asked me to say something in Latin.I said several proverbs and she listened to them as to the strangest and silliest things in the world.

• Well, did she tell you anything about the people she studies with?

• Yes, she boasted that her group is wonderful. They never quarrel or even argue. They congratulate each other on all the holidays.

• I think, you should have said that our group is very good too and that we even gathered together to see in the New Year.

• Oh, don’t worry, I mentioned this fact.

• OK. I also want to know whether Ann has joined any clubs at her University. I know she is fond of acting.

• Yes, she is a member of the drama society.

• Look! The teacher's entering the room. Let's stop talking.

• OK.