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Additional Lessons |
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Lessons
The following classroom lessons are great for students
who want additional conversation, listening, and reading
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Conversation Lesson -
Advanced
Level. Dialogs for everyday use.
Short situational dialogs for students of English as
a Foreign (EFL) or Second (ESL) Language with a
written conversation and a conversation notes
section.
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 Conversation Lesson
5 - What Time Is It?
(Advanced -
Conversation, Reading)
Dialogs for everyday use. Short situational dialogs for
students of English as a Foreign (EFL) or Second (ESL)
Language. |
What Time Is It?
NATASHA: What time is it? We’re going to
be late!
TONY: It’s a quarter after seven. We’re on
time. Don’t panic.
NATASHA: But I thought we had to be at the
restaurant by 7:30 for the surprise party. We’ll never make it there with all
this evening traffic.
TONY: Sure we will. Rush hour is almost
over. Anyway, the party starts at 8:00. But I do need help with directions. Can
you call the restaurant and ask them where we park our car? |
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Conversation Notes |
- It’s a quarter after seven. This phrase is one of the
most common ways of stating this time. It means: “It’s 15 minutes past
7:00.” Another possibility here is to simply say: “It’s seven fifteen.” In
general you can say: “It’s a quarter past the hour.” How do we know the time
of day? Look for context clues: “evening traffic.”
- In the dialog, Natasha and Tony are going to a surprise
party. They need to be on time. Therefore there is an element of stress and
urgency. When someone is stressed for time you can use expressions like:
Don’t worry. / Don’t stress. / We’re fine. / We will be on time.
- Natasha thinks the surprise party begins at 7:30. There
are two different ways to express this time. You may say simply “seven
thirty” or “half past seven.”
- Rush hour is the time of day—usually in the morning and
evening—when traffic is heavy because of people commuting to and from their
workplace by bus, by car, by subway, on foot, etc.
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Source: U.S. State Department |
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 Conversation
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which focus on a wide variety of communicative and
natural encounters in English....these
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which focus on spoken American English in a relatively
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