1. Greetings.

Two people are greeting each other at the airport. In the first conversation the people have never met each other before. In the second conversation they know each other well.

Drag the following lines from the greetings into the correct conversation.
Put them in the right order.

Now listen to the two conversations.

Conversation 1

Conversation 2

2. Greetings.

Listen to the complete conversations at the airport and answer these questions.

Conversation 1 (formal)

 

Conversation 2 (informal)

3. Making suggestions.

In the previous exercises, the people greeting the visitors make suggestions.
Look at the second half of the conversations. Use the suggestions in the box to complete the dialogues.

4. Making suggestions.

Put the words in order to make more suggestions.

5. In a restaurant.

Listen to a conversation in a Mongolian restaurant between Alistair and Joanna.
Match the dishes to the pictures.

Now listen again and read the transcript.



6. Ways of cooking.

The following are different ways of cooking which are mentioned in the previous exercise.
Match the way of cooking to the picture.

Tip: You can look for the words in the glossary if you are not sure what they mean: baked, barbecued, boiled, fried, grilled, roasted, steamed, stir-fried.

7. Describing dishes.

Joanna uses different phrases to describe the dishes to Alistair.
Drag the phrases into the correct place in the dialogue.

8. Asking favours.

Listen to this conversation between Joanna and Alistair towards the end of the day.
Complete the sentences with the correct option.

9. Making requests.

In the conversation in the previous exercise, Alistair says:
Could you get someone to send these faxes, please?

Other ways of asking people to do things are:

Could you ask someone to send these faxes, please?
Could you arrange for someone to send these faxes, please?
Could you make sure someone sends these faxes, please?
Could you ensure that someone sends these faxes, please?

Refer to the verb patterns above.
Order the words so the second sentence means the same as the first.

10. Question tags as conversational openers.

Notice how question tags are used conversationally. Listen to these two examples.

I think that really went well, didn't it?
Right, because you saw the main sights last time, didn't you?

Short questions at the end of sentences (question tags) are often used to encourage conversation. The function of this is to say: What do you think? In order to do this the intonation on the question tag falls. Listen to these examples:

Now complete the following statements with question tags.

Listen to the sentences to see if you are correct and how they continue.

11. Saying goodbye and thanks.

Listen to Joanna and Alistair at the airport again, this time saying goodbye.

Now choose the correct verb forms to complete the transcript.

Now listen to the conversation again.