English Conversations -Breakfast Table

Everyday Conversations --On the Breakfast Table

2009-05-14T22:44:00.000-07:00

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On the Breakfast Table
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Good knowledge and satisfactory conversation drill is important in English speaking. This Tutorial would not only prove an asset to the reader in his daily life, but also on special occasions like interviews for jobs, etc. He would be able to face the interviewers with equanimity and confidence.
All the lessons have been designed in a programmed fashion. Word-meanings, Phrases and exercises have been added at the end of every lesson to help the students master the topics.
All the lesson should be read along, not once but many times, so that the conversation comes easy to the reader when he faces real life situations. The author would feel rewarded for his labours if the book helps men and women become social relations
This Tutoial should help all those readers who find difficulty in speaking fluent English. This will be completed in 45 lessons.
Tutorial TWO

AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

Mother Come along everybody. Breakfast is on the table.

Reena Mamma, I’ll lay the table.

Ranjan I’ll bring in and serve the breakfast dishes afterwards?

Mother Yes, that will be a big help. Thank you.

Father Well, well. What do we have for breakfast this morning?

Reena To begin with, there is porridge with milk.

Mother I’ve made scrambled eggs for all of us. Papa is having his eggs fried.

Ranjan Vikram, would you like some butter for your toast?

Vikram Yes please. And lots of jam as well.

Mother That is a pretty flower arrangement you’ve made, Reena.

Father Please pass me the salt and the pepper , Ranjan. Thank you.

Vikram Yummy, scrummy! The toast is delicious.

Reena Be careful. Do not spill your food on the table cloth, Viki.

Ranjan Because papa is the head of the family so that is his place.

Reena And mamma sits at the other end of the table.

Vikram Mamma, What’s for lunch today?

Mother I am planning to make a meat curry, dal fried rice and some salad

Vikram What about a pudding?

Mother I’ have already set the ice cream in the fridge.

Father When you finish your meal be sure to fold your napkins.

Ranjan Vikram, lay your fork and knife straight on your plate.

Vikram I hate to drink milk.

Reena But you have to drink it. Let me add some Bournvita to your milk, then it
will taste better.

Mother Who will give me a hand with clearing the table?

Everyone We all will.

Mother Mind, no one drops the china dishes. Please place all the plates near the sink.

Reena I’ll rinse out and wipe the cutlery.

Ranjan I’ll dry out the plates and the glass tumblers.

Father And I’ll put them away in the crockery in the cupboard.

(B) Vocabulary

Meal tough chew
Salad raw hungry
Spoon vegetable thirsty
Glass pie sweet

Phrases
A hearty meal good appetite
Welcome guests pleasant meal
Vase of flowers clear the table
Shining cutlery delicious food
Meanings

Scrambled eggs eggs prepared with onions tomatoes, chillies all mixed together. “Bhurji”
Clearing the tables removing all the knives, forks and other items from the dining table.
Flower arrangement a bowl of flowers artistically arranged.
Delicious tasty.
Salad a dish made up of uncooked vegetables.

(C) Study the following responses:

1 Describe your dining room suite.
Response: We have a dining table with eight dining chairs.

2 Which is your favourite meal?
Response: My favourite meal is dinner. I can relax and eat my dinner in peace without hurrying to catch a bus or to attend a meeting.

3 Do you think that the whole of the Verma family eat their breakfast together everyday?
Response: No. It seems that the break fast scene described in the lesson was a Sunday or on a holiday. It is unlikely that on working days the entire family would be eating breakfast at the same time.

4 Why do you think the Verma family eat breakfast at different times and not together?
Response: I think that considering the age difference between the family members, they would be going to school or to work at different hours of the morning. The little boy Vikram would be leaving for school very early in the morning and his father would be going to office later.

(D) Make suitable responses

1 Why should Vikram lay his fork and knife straight on his plate after finishing his meal?
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2 When you have finished eating your meal is it polite for you to leave the table immediately?
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3 What do you understand by the expression “to lay the table”?
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4 What did Vikram eat for his breakfast?
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English Conversation - AT THE AIRPORT

2009-05-14T22:33:00.000-07:00

Improve English Speaking through everyday conversation
I have written a detailed book English conversation for all occasions, to learn English as Foreign Language.
This tutorial has been prepared from my well known book English conversation for all occasions, which I wrote for Indian students to improve everyday conversation..
English Conversation for All Occasions is a unique book of its kind, specially written to help Indian student. A quick look at the titles of the lessons would convince the reader that the book has been prepared by visualizing all types of situational conversations which may confront any man or woman in his daily activities. Whether one converses with his family members or moves about to mix in society, he will not feel tongue-tied for want of appropriate words or expressions. In a post office or barber’s shop, at a hotel or taxi stand, every person who has read this book, will be able to speak in English fluently and with confidence.
Good knowledge and satisfactory conversation drill is important in English speaking. This Tutorial would not only prove an asset to the reader in his daily life, but also on special occasions like interviews for jobs, etc. He would be able to face the interviewers with equanimity and confidence.
All the lessons have been designed in a programmed fashion. Word-meanings, Phrases and exercises have been added at the end of every lesson to help the students master the topics.
All the lesson should be read along, not once but many times, so that the conversation comes easy to the reader when he faces real life situations. The author would feel rewarded for his labours if the book helps men and women become social relations
This Tutorial should help all those readers who find difficulty in speaking fluent English. This will be completed in 45 lessons.
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Ranjan has arrived at the airport to catch flight B A 201 to Calcutta
Ranjan porter! Porter?
Porter Yes sir. Only one bag? Which flight sir?
Ranjan to Calcutta.
Porter This way sir. Please pay Re 15 for porterage at the counter.
Porterage counter One piece sir? Here is your ticket?
Rajan (To the poter). Has the flight to Calcutta been called yet?
Poter Yes sir. Please stand in that line and wait for your turn.
Voice on the
P.A. system your attention please. Calling all passengers traveling by Bharat Airlines Flight No.201 to Calcutta. Passengers are requested to check in their baggage at the ticket counter. Thank you.
Man at the Ticket counter your ticket please, sir. Please place your case on a weighing machine.
Ranjan Where is it?
Man at the Ticket counter Just at your right hand side. Thank-you sir. Here is your baggage ticket, Do you have any hand baggage
Ranjan Yes, one piece.
Man at the Ticket counter Here is a baggage tag for your hand baggage. Please keep the baggage ticket carefully sir. You’ll require it to claim your suitcase at Calcutta. Here is your ticket and your boarding card. Thank you. Next please.
Ranjan sits on a couch in the waiting lounge.
Girl on the P.A. System All passengers traveling to Calcutta by Bharat Airlines flight No.201 are requested to proceed for security check. Thank you.
Ranjan (Inside the security check enclosure).
What do you want to check?
Security
Inspector Are you carrying any fire arms or a pointed instrument?
Ranjan No.
Inspector (Feeling Ranjan all over). This is just routine, sir. We have to be careful, you know. What with all these hijackings going on.
Ranjan Yes, the newspapers are full of it. I wonder how these people do it?
Inspector One cannot be too careful. Do you have any hand baggage ?
Rajan Yes, this briefcase.
Inspector Please open it. Right, that is all. Here let me stamp your Boarding card. Thank you.
Ranjan passes through the security check enclosure and waits in another lounge. After ten minutes.
Girl on the
P.A.system Bharat Airlines Flight 201 to Calcutta is now ready for departure. Passengers are requested to proceed to the aircraft. Please keep your boarding cards ready.
Ranjan (To the passenger walking next to him). Excuse me sir, which is the aeroplane that we board?
Passenger The bus standing at the entrance will take us to the correct aircraft.
Ground
Hostess Good evening sir. May I see your boarding card, please? Thank you.
Ranjan Excuse me, where do I go?
Ground
Hostess Please get into that bus.
Ranjan (sitting in the Bharat Airlines bus, talks to his neighbour). I must say, I’ am most impressed with the efficiency of the Airlines. Air travel is so much more organized, faster cleaner than any other form of travel. Don’t you think so?
Fellow
Passengers Yes. It certainly is the fastest way of getting from one place to another. I am a businessman. Very often I travel to Delhi by the morning plane, do my work in Delhi and then return to Calcutta by the evening flight.
Ranjan Isn’t that wonderful? You can travel 2000 miles in a day and do a full day’s work as well.
Fellow Passenger Yes, but this business of Security check wastes so much time. Then the planes are not keeping to their correct timings. Sometimes it can be very frustrating and upsetting too.
Ranjan Here we are Sir. May I hold one of your bags ?
Fellow
Passenger No thank you I can carry both my bags. Thank you all the same for the offer.
(B) VOCABULARY
Comfort air conditioned
Cheques lounge
Tag overnight bag
Pharses
A travel agency to check in
A long wait to arrive in time
Meanings
Porter age wages paid to a porter.
Porter a person who carries baggage.
To check in
Baggage to deposit luggage with the airlines
Proceed to go forward to. tag : a label.
To check in to report, to give intimation of arrival.
Baggage ticket a small ticket half of which is attached to the suitcase and the other half is handed over to the passenger.
Boarding card a card which states the flight No. and the seat No. of the passenger.
P.A. system public announcement system. Announcements are made over a microphone.
Enclosure a shut off space, a covered place
Efficient capable.
Frustrating disappointing.
Cheques a written orders to a banker to pay a sum.
Lounge a place to relax in.

(C) Study the following response

1 Air travel is the safest way of traveling.
Response: I cannot agree with that statement. An areoplane is a marvelous invention of science. The plane like a great bird at great speed over vast distance of space. But it is 36.000ft. above the earth, sometime at speed faster than sound. But it is a machine after all. Anything can go wrong with it. I feel very scared of travelling in an aero plane.

2 What are the various ways of traveling from one place to another?
Response: The conveyance one chooses to travel by depends on the distance to be covered, the time available to the traveler and the amount of money he is able to spend. The different forms of transportation available in India are private cars, taxis, buses. Scooter rickshaws, scooters, moter cycles, mopeds, cycle rickshaws, Tongas drawn by horses and even bicycles. I guess, on rare occasions, horses, elephants and camels could also be used

(D) Make suitable response

1 Have you travelled by air? If so, where did you go?
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2 If you have traveled by air, describe how you felt on
your first flight.
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3 If you have not travelled by air, would you like to make a journey by air? Why?
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4 From where would you buy an air ticket?
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