89. THE STOLEN BICYCLE
Officer: Excuse me, madam.
Amy: Oh sergeant, you’ve come to learn about Mrs Miller’s bicycle, haven’t you? The one thatstolen this morning.
Officer: That’s right, madam. Now,you kindly answer a few questions, please?
Amy: Why, of course.
Officer:Whatyou doing at seven thirty this morning?
Amy: At seven thirty you said? Icooking breakfast in the kitchen. My husband just getting up and my sisterstill asleep.
Officer:You couldn’t see Mr Miller’s porch from your kitchen
window, could you, madam?
Amy: No, I couldn’t. The window looks out on the back garden. I can
only see a part of their porch from my dining room window.
Officer:Andyou in the dining room at all at that time, madam?
Amy: Wehaving breakfast there at about eight.
Officer:the bicycle still in the porch then?
Amy: Isorry, sergeant, I n’t know. Wen’t look.
Officer:you hear anything?
Amy: I think I heard the Millers’ gate open and close. But I thought that Mrs Millergoing out.
Officer: Perhaps, your husband noticed something as heleaving
the house?
Amy: My husband? In’t think he, sergeant. He
busy trying to start the car. And believe me, sergeant, STARTING our cara full time job (нелегкое дело).
LISTEN, ANSWER AND TRANSLATE
What Amy doing at seven thirty? – She cooking breakfast.
What Alan doing? – He just getting up.
What Alan and Amy doing about eight? – They having breakfast.
Where they having breakfast? - They having breakfast in
the dining room.
Could Amy see Mr Miller’s porch from her kitchen window? - No,
she couldn’t.
Why? – Because the window looks out on (to look out on smwhere. -
выходить на какую-л. сторону) the back garden.
Amy hear anything? - She heard the Millers’ gate open and close.
Whatshe think it was? – She thought Mrs Miller going out.
Alan notice anything as he leaving the house? – No, he n’t. He trying to start the car.
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90. THE BICYCLE FOUND
Amy: I’ve to see Mrs Miller.
Alan: Oh,you? What about their bicycle? they found it?
Amy: Yes, they. Itfound this morning. Or rather it
returned.
Alan: Returned?
Amy: Yes, they found it standing in the porch as usual.
Alan: So theyn’t even know who took it yesterday?
Amy: Oh, yes, they. The thieffound too.
Alan: Well, whoit?
Amy: A young boy about 13 (thirteen). He caught this morning as he leaving the Millers’ garden. He taken to the police station,
but they let him go later.
Alan: You say he returned the bicycle?
Amy: He says hen’t want to steal it. He just wanted to ride.
Alan: That’s probably true.
Amy: But a bicycle ridemuch fun he says. Next time, he says, heborrow a motorbike.
Alan: The young rascal! They ought to teach him a lesson. What the Millers going to do about it?
Amy: Nothing. Mrs Millerthe boy’s mother. She says she
quite understands her feelings.
Alan: She probably. The Millers have a lot of trouble with
their own boy.
Amy: Yes, theyquite worried. He always getting into
scrapes (to get into scrapes - влипнуть в историю).
Alan: It’s their own faults! Theynot strict enough with him. They’ve spoiling him for years.
Amy: Oh, Alan, now you getting on your hobbyhorse (to get on hobbyhorse - садиться на своего конька) again. Teenagersthe
problem all over the world these days. You ought to know that.
LISTEN, ANSWER AND TRANSLATE
the bicyclefound? – Yes, it.
When it found? – This morning.
the thief caught? – Yes, he.
When he caught? – He caught as he leaving the Millers’ garden.
Where he taken? – To the police station.
Whothe thief? – A young boy of about 13.
Whathe say about TAKING the bicycle? – He says he
n’t want to steal it.
Whyhe take it? – He just wanted to ride.
Mrs Miller seen the boy’s mother? – Yes, she.
Whatshe say? – She says she quite understands her feelings.
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91. THE HOTEL
Sergei: Good morning!
Hotel booking: Good morning sir!
Sergei: I’d like to book a single room.
Hotel booking: For tonight?
Sergei: No, for next Sunday.
Hotel booking: Let me see… Yes, we still have one single room
vacant on Sunday. A very nice room with a bath on the second floor.
Sergei: How muchyou charge for a single room with a bath?
Hotel booking: 45 pounds a night.
Sergei: breakfast included?
Hotel booking: Yes, bed and breakfast.
Sergei: A..a.a…n’t you got any cheaper rooms?
Hotel booking: Yes, wehave a few rooms without a bath but I’m afraid thereno vacant rooms on Sunday. Theyalways
booked up at weekends.
Sergei: you expect any cancellations?
Hotel booking: Well, nothing’s cancelled so far. I can’t promise you anything.
Sergei: Oh well, I think I’ll have to take that room on the second
floor. But itrather more than I expected.
Hotel booking: What name shall I write then?
Sergei: Actually In’t want a room for myself. I asked to arrange the reservation by my professor. The nameDr Richard Spitgate. Hecoming from Denver, USA.
Hotel booking: Dr Richard Spitgate, a single room with a bath, for Sunday night. Very well, sir. How long Dr Richard Spitgate
staying with us?
Sergei: I’d like to book the room until Tuesday morning.
Hotel booking: Till Tuesday morning? Very well, thank you, sir.
Sergei: Thank you! Good bye!
Hotel booking: Good bye, sir!
LISTEN, ANSWER AND TRANSLATE
How muchyou charge for a single room with a bath? - 45
pounds a night.
n’t you got any cheaper rooms? – Wen’t have any vacant on Sunday. Wealways booked up at weekend. And nothing’s cancelled so far.
I asked to make a BOOKING for Dr Richard Spitgate.
He coming from Denver, USA.
He’ll staying in London until Tuesday.