Lesson 8.

 Text of conversation

Peter: /shouting in the hall downstairs/ Mum! Dad! Where is everyone? Is the house empty? Hello!

Robert: /from the bathroom/ Peter! What are you making all that noise about? Peter? /to himself/ Ah! That sounds like Robert's voice. /Opening bathroom's door/ Hello, Robert: What are you doing in the bathroom?

Robert: I'm having a wash - what do you think?

Peter: Well, you sound as if you'd got soap in your mouth? Why are you having a wash now?

Robert: You know very well I always have a wash when I get home on Saturday, after football.

Peter: Where's Mum? I want to ask her something.

Robert: Well, you'll have to wait till she comes in - she's shopping. You know very well she goes shopping every Saturday morning and doesn't come in till lunch time.

Peter: I think I smell something cooking. Is lunch ready yet?

Robert: Of course not. It's still in the oven.

Peter: It smells good. Don't I wish Mum would hurry up with her shopping and give it to me. I'm hungry!

Robert: You needn't worry - you never miss your Saturday lunch, young Peter.

Peter: Dad will miss it if he doesn't come soon. Where is he?

Robert: Don't be silly, you know exactly where he is - having a beer in the pub. You know he always has a drink on his way home from work on Saturday morning.

Peter: /in mock admiration/ I say Robert, you do look clean! You've even washed behind your ears!

Robert: Now don't you be rude, young Peter. You could do with a wash yourself ... Here, Peter, what are you doing with that cake?

Peter: /imitating Robert/ Don't be silly! You know exactly what I'm doing with it. You know very well I always come home on Saturday and have to wait for my lunch so I eat whatever I can find in the pantry - and that's what I'm doing now.

Lеsson 9

Text of conversation

Nora: Move out of my way, Peter, I want to make a cake.

Peter: How do you make a cake, Mum?

Nora: Fancy you being interested! Well, Listen and I'll tell you. First you take some flour, and add the eggs- oh no, that's wrong, you mix the fat and sugar first- but you'd better watch me doing it. Now look. First I mix the fat and the sugar- there, do you see?

Peter: Yes.

Nora: Then I add the eggs, one by one, with a little four, and beat them into the mixture.

Peter: Why do you beat them?

Nora: Well, eggs help to make the cake rise nicely if you beat them. And then I add the rest of the dry things.

Peter: What are the dry things?

Nora: Oh, the rest of the flour; the fruit, if you're making a fruit cake, or the chocolate powder of its a chocolate cake it depends what sort of cake you are making.

Peter: Make a chocolate cake.

Nora: Yes, that's what' I'm doing. Now I stir in a little baking powder.

Peter: Does that make the cake rise too?

Nora: Yes, but not until you heat it.

Peter: Is that chocolate powder you're putting in now, Mum?

Nora: Of course it is.

Peter: I say, Mum.

Nora: What is it, Peter?

Peter: What's the self for, Mum?

Nora: /abstractedly/ What salt? I don't put salt in a cake.

Peter: You did, you know. Perhaps you thought it was sugar.

Nora: What? Oh, good gracious, I've put salt in instead of sugar! The cake is spoilt. What a shame - those lovely eggs! I'm always doing things like that. Now I shall have to begin again and make buns instead - they don't need eggs.