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Dialogues: plans & excuses

 
Borrowing
Clothes shop
Eating out
Electrical shop
Plans & Excuses
Hotel
Flying
Was / Were
Bank
Complaining
Crime
Finding a flat
Preferences
Rules
Selling
Telephone
A: Let's go to a movie together.
B: I'd love to. When shall we go?
A: How about next Friday evening?
B: Let me see..... Oh, I am sorry, I'm having dinner with a friend.
A: How about the following Tuesday?
B: That'd be great. What shall we see?
A: Star Wars?
B: No, that's boring. How about Austin Powers?
A: Sounds good to me. When shall we meet?
B: Seven? In the Kent Tavern?
A: Great, see you there.

A: Would you like to come to a movie with me?
B: When do you want to go?
A: How about next Friday evening?
B: I'm sorry, I can't. I'm having dinner with a friend.
A: How about the following Tuesday?
B: I go to evening class on Tuesdays.
A: Oh, maybe some other time?
B: Yeah, I'll give you a call.

Practice
i) You want to go to an exhibition with your friend.
ii) Someone asks you to dinner but you don't want to go.
 Make conversations.

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