Living English (1): Pleased to Meet You
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Living English is a 42-part series that looks at the English language used in everyday situations such as checking into a hotel or describing people. An episode will be posted each week. Scroll down the page, press the button "play", and watch episode1 .


Living English: Episode 1_Pleased to meet you

Episode 1. Pleased to meet you
Anne, a wine dealer from Singapore, arrives at Adelaide Airport and meets her local buyer, Sarah.
Anne walks out with the other passengers...
ANNE Excuse me...
SARAH Anne Lee?
ANNE Yes. Hello
SARAH I’m Sarah Taylor. I’m your new local buyer. Pleased to meet you.
(they shake hands)
ANNE It’s very kind of you to meet me.
SARAH Oh. Sorry. This is my husband, Mark.
MARK Good morning. How are you?
ANNE Very well thankyou.
MARK How was your flight?
ANNE Actually, I’m a bit tired. It was a very long flight.
SARAH Let’s get your bags.
The three watch as the bags go around. Anne points.
ANNE That’s mine there! The red one.
MARK It’s heavy!
ANNE Sorry.
SARAH Don’t worry. Mark’s strong – aren’t you dear?
MARK No worries.
SARAH
Come on. Let’s go to the hotel.
They leave the airport.

Vocabulary

dealer (n): someone who buys and sells something 
buyer (n): someone whose work is to buy for a department store, a company, etc.
local (adj): in or of a certain place
shake hands (ph.v): hold someone's hand as a greeting and move it up and down 
flight (n): a trip on an airplane

Episode Note
1 Greetings (Practice and check your answers)
2. Introductions (Practice)
3. Simple Sentences (Practice)
4. Personal Pronouns (Practice)
5. THAT and THIS (Practice)
6. Adjectives (Practice)

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