📖 Reading Practice 📖


🍔Difficult Customer🍔


⚪️Good evening. My name is Fabio. I’ll be your waiter for tonight. May I take your order?

⚫️No, I’m still working on it. This menu isn’t even in English. What’s good here?

⚪️ For you sir, I would recommend spaghetti and meatballs.

⚫️Does it come with coke and fries?

⚪️ It comes with either soup or salad and a complimentary glass of lemonade, sir.

⚫️I’ll go with the spaghetti and meatballs, salad and the lemonade.

⚪️Excellent choice. Your order will be ready soon.

⚫️How soon is soon?

⚪️Twenty minutes?

⚫️You know what? I’ll just go grab a burger across the street.

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🔘Key Vocabulary

• grab - get quickly
• go with - to choose, pick
• would recommend - suggest
• complimentary - free
• still working on - not yet completed, need more time


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💢#Conversation /ˌkɒnvəˈseɪʃən $ ˌkɑːnvər-/ BrE AmE #noun


#Metaphor


✨A conversation or discussion is like a journey, with the speakers going from one place to another.

💬 Let’s go back to what you were saying earlier.

💬 Can we return to the previous point?

💬 I can’t quite see where you’re heading.

💬 The conversation took an unexpected turn/direction.

💬 I’m listening – Go on!

💬 We’ve covered a lot of ground.

💬 I was just coming on to that.

💬 We eventually arrived at a conclusion.

💬 It’s a roundabout way of saying she’s refusing our offer.

💬 You’re on the right/wrong track.

💬 We wandered off the topic.

💬 The conversation drifted rather aimlessly.

💬 We kept going round and round in circles.


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