- •Lesson 1
- •Lesson 2
- •Lesson 3
- •It's a lovely day, isn't it? Well, the Rovers won, Mum!
- •Lesson 4
- •Lesson 5
- •Lesson 6
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- •Lеsson 9
- •Lesson 10
- •Lesson 12
- •Lesson 13
- •Lesson 14
- •Lesson 15
- •Lesson 16
- •Lesson 17
- •Lesson 18
- •Lesson 19
- •Lesson 20
- •Lesson 21
- •If there’s anything a woman needs after looking over a house, it’s
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- •Lesson 23
- •Lesson 24
- •Lesson 25
- •Lesson 26
- •Lesson 27
- •Lesson 28
- •Lesson 29
- •Lesson 30
- •Lesson 31
- •Lesson 32
- •/Sound of bus starting up/
- •Meet the parkers
Lesson 31
Text conversation
/Scene: Breakfast in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parker/
Harry: You know, Nora, that’s the second time breakfast has been late this week. If I don’t get my breakfast on time I arrive at work late.
Nora: You’re awfully bad-tempered these days, Harry. It must be because you’ve given up smoking.
Harry: Nonsense. Anyhow, who says I’m bad-tempered?
Nora: You’re never really happy unless you have a cigarette or a pipe in your mouth. Why don’t you start smoking again? I would, if I were you.
Harry: Certainly not. If I say I’m going to give something up, I give it up.
Nora: Oh, Harry, if only you would smoke again, I’m sure we should have fewer black looks about the house.
Harry: No, Nora. If I start smoking, I shall start that silly irritating cough again. Good heavens, if that fellow Smith can give it up, I hope I can.
Nora: I see. You just want to show how strong-minded you are. Well, I guarantee that if you had a packet of cigarettes in your pocket now you would very soon find yourself lighting one.
Harry: Not at all. Even if I had a hundred cigarettes in every pocket I still shouldn’t give way to temptation. Now, Nora, if I don’t go O shall miss my bus.
Nora: Shall I see you at six?
Harry: Yes, if I’m not kept at work.
Nora: If you pass a stationer’s buy me some envelopes, will you?
Harry: Right. Goodbye, Nora.
/Sound of a match being struck/
Nora: Er – Harry, what’s that in your mouth?
Harry: Good heavens, it’s a cigarette. I must have lit it without thinking. Why, Nora – you put that cigarette on the table in front of me!
Nora: /Laughing/ Yes, Harry, I can’t have you being too strong-minded!
Lesson 32
Text conversation
Harry: We shall be awfully late home if that No. 12 bus doesn’t come soon… Let’s stand in this doorway out of the wind.
Nora: All right, but must be careful not to miss the bus… How did you enjoy the film?
Harry: I’d never have gone if I had known it was going to be so silly.
Nora: Why, what was silly about it?
Harry: Well, no saint man would have married that other girl so soon after he had murdered his wife. It was sure to make people suspicious.
Nora: If he had been sane he wouldn’t have murdered her, besides, the girl wouldn’t have waited for him if he hadn’t asked her immediately.
Harry: All the better for him if she hadn’t.
Nora: Yes, but then he wouldn’t have paid for his crime. Anyhow, I’d have enjoyed the film much more if Elsa Hollywood had been in it instead of Linda Spangle.
Harry: And I’d have enjoyed it more if we hadn’t gone at all.
Nora: /Sharply/ And I’d have enjoyed it more if you hadn’t been so rude to that woman in front.
Harry: Well, I shouldn’t have been rude to her if she had stopped chattering when I asked her.
Nora: I wish you’d behave better in public places.
Harry: I behave better I like that. I like that. Why, if that woman had…
/Sound of bus starting up/
But look, isn’t that a No. 12 bus just going?
Nora: Yes, it is, and we’ve missed it after all. We should have seen that bus, Harry, if you hadn’t been so busy quarrelling.
Harry: /In injured tones/ Really, Nora, I think it would have been much better if I had stayed at home tonight and let you go to the cinema alone.
Dialogue No 5
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Did Nora want Harry to do anything that evening?
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Was she sure there was nobody coming to see them?
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Was there anything she wanted Harry to listen to on the wireless?
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Why did Harry want to go round to the club?
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How did he convince Nora of the necessity to go to the club?
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Why was Nora against Harry’s idea?
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What had Harry promised her before?
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Do you think the Parkers will go round to the club?
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Did Harry seem to feel sorry?
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What is the best title for the dialogue?
Dialogue No 12