‘Who's who? Manuela J=Jane F = Manuela’s friends 1M Hello, everybody! This is my friend Jane from England, F Hil Hallo! Hello Jane! J. Hello, Pleased to meet you. M Sit down here, 1 Thanks F 1 F Do you like the music, Jane? Yes,1 do [sit American? No, it's Bravilian jazz! M Come and have drink, Fane, T=Toshi_}=Ann Jones T Mrs Jones! How do you do? J. How do you do? T Please come in. You're from our office in London, accnt you! Yes, tha’ right. Welcome to Tokyo! Do you like our headquarters here? J. Yes. IPs very big. How many people work here? T_Aboutsix thousand people. Do you ‘want to see our ofices? A=Al M=Mick 3A What do you want to do today, Mick? M Ook, I don’t know. What do you A. Ah! Do you like sailing? 1M Yes, very much. 1 sometimes go sailing in Scotland but not very often, A. OK ~ 20 today it’ sling and fishing on the lake. 1M Fantastic. Love fishing too — we go fishing alot in Scotland. Everyday conversations 1A Tmsorry Tm ate. The trafic is bad today. Dont worry: Gomie and sit down, Weve on page 25 Excuse me Yet Do you have dictionary? Tem sor doit, leat home. Thats OK. Jes very hon here, Can Topen the window? Really Tm quite col OK. Ie doesn't mate. Excuse mel Can help yout ‘Gan have fil foc my camera? How many exposurest Pardon? How many expounet ‘What docs exposures mean How many pictures! 24? 36" 40? ABINow T understand! 40, please ag = > >ere> pubuperer oe Un 5 ‘Questions and answers Is there a television? Yes, there is Is there a radio No, there is. ‘Are there any books! Yes, there are How many books are there? ‘There are alot, Are there any photographs! No, there aren’. Description of aliving room “There are thrve people i the living room. A ‘man and a woman on the sofa anda ite gil in the armchair. There’ a radio on the cofiee table and a rug under it. There's a cat on the rug in front of the fre, There ae alot of, pictures on the walls but there arent any Photographs, There are to plants on the floor next tothe television andl some flowers ‘on the small table next to the sof, ‘Helen’s kitchen, Helen B=Bob ‘And this is the kitchen, Mmm, it’s very nice Well its not very big, but there are alot of cupboards, And there’ anew fridge, and a cooker. Tha’s new, to, But what's mall these cupboards? Well, not alot. There are some cups, but there aren't any plates. And Ihave some knives and forks, but I don't have any spoons! Do you have any glasses? No. Sorry. [Never mind. We can drink this champagne from those cups! Cheers! ‘What's in Pierre's briefcase? What's in my briefeaer Well, there’ a newspaper ~a French newspaper and there's A dictionary ~ my Prench/English dictionary. L have some pens, three I think: Also Ihave a rpotebook for vocabulary, write words in that every day. And of course have my keys, my cat keys and my house keys. Oh yes, very important, there are some photos of my family, my wife and may daughter and there's sy mobile phone. I ring my home in Paris every night. Tha’ all think. J don't have any. stamps and my address book i in my hotel Homes around the world 1. Manola from Lisbon live inthe old town near the sa. Iti called the Alfama, [have avery beautifal at, There's just one room in my flat, one very big oom ‘with one very big window. My bed's next to the window so Ise the sea and all the lights ofthe city when Igo to sleep. I ive alone, but Thave a cat and I'm near the shops and lots of fiends come to vist me. Ilove my fat, epepabere> H B H me cae 2. Ray and Elsie from Toronto Elsie Our house is quite old, about fifty years old. Its quite near tothe city centre. We havea living room, quite a big kitchen and three bedrooms, but the room we ll Jove is our family room. Ray Yes, there's a TV and. stereo and lage comfortable sofa in there, and some bg, fold armchairs, We love sitting therein ‘winter with the soovr outside, Flsie Our children aren't at home now; they both have jobs in the USA, 50 most of the time it’ just Ray and me. 3. Brad from Malibu My house is fantastic. It’s right next to the set My neighbours are very rich Some of them ace famous film stars. In my house there are ten roams, five are bedrooms, and everything is white, the Doors, the walls, the sof, everything, [also havea swimming pook.a cinema and an exercise room, [live here alone. Pm not married at the moment. My = wife is French, She lives in Paris now with our three sons, 4 Alise from Samoa Live with my family in a house near thes We have an open house... ef. that. et ‘our house doesn’t have any walls. Hous in Samoa don't have walls because its ver, very hot, but we have blinds to stop the rain and sun. Our house is in the old style. We have only one room for living and sleeping, 29 itis both a bedroom and a living room. We hhave rugs and we st and sleep on the floor Asking for directions 1A. Excuse me Is there a chemist near here? Yes. ts over there ‘Thanks, Excuse me! Is there a newsagent neat hore? Yes. Its in Church Steet. Take the fr street on the right, It's next to the music shop. ‘Oh yes, Thanks. 3A. Excuse me! Is there a restaurant neat here? B. There's a Chinese one in Park Lane next to the bank, and there's an talian ‘one in Church Street next tothe travel agent A Isthat one fa? B No. Just two minutes, thats all. 4A Is there a post office near here? B A = >be > Go straight ahead, and its on the let next to the pub. ‘Thanks alot