Welcome to Year 1, Week 17, Lesson 1.17.3. Today we will work on your English conversation and reading skills. We begin dialogues 19-21 from our English course, American English Conversations 2. Designed for beginners, these dialogues help English Learners improve their comprehension and communication skills. You’re encouraged to read along and pronounce together with the video below. Once you finish, don’t forget to share what you’ve learned via the comments section below.
PART 1 — DIRECTIONS: Read the dialogues below in English, then translate them and read them in your primary language.
Dialogue 19 – Weekend Plans
- Al: Hi. I’m glad I ran into you.
- Bob: Why? What’s up?
- Al: How’d you like to go on a hike this weekend?
- Bob: All weekend?
- Al: Well, just Saturday and Sunday.
- Bob: I’m not sure I can be gone all weekend. I promised to help my sister move Saturday.
- Al: How about Sunday, then? We could start early in the morning.
- Bob: I might be able to do that. Tell you what. Let me check and I’ll call you at home tonight.
- Al: Great! I’ll talk to you later.
- Bob: So long.
Dialogue 20 — Dinner Invitation
- Laura: Don’t forget. We’re invited out to dinner tonight.
- Ted: Oh, I almost forgot. Thanks for reminding me. What time?
- Laura: Seven-thirty. We should leave the house by six-thirty. You know how bad the traffic is that time of night.
- Ted: Uh-huh. It’s informal, isn’t it?
- Laura: Yeah. You can wear your new sports jacket.
- Ted: Okay. I’ll try to get home a little early.
- Laura: Good. Bye-bye.
Dialogue 21 — Car Insurance
- Dick: I need to get car insurance. Ya got any ideas?
- George: Well, you could try my company. It seems to have fair rates.
- Dick: Do they insure older cars?
- George: As far as I know, they insure all kinds of vehicles.
- Dick: How long have you had a policy with them?
- George: Oh, I don’t know. Maybe five years.
- Dick: And you say their rates are low?
- George: Not low, reasonable. I’ve always gotten good service from them. Let me give you their phone number and you can call them.
PART 2 — DIRECTIONS: Watch, read-along, and pronounce with the video below a minimum of 2-3 times. After you finish, let us know what you learned via the comments section below.
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Hello. I’m Danijela.
In this lesson I improved my reading and pronunciation.
Very useful lesson.
Thank you very much Maestro Sersea.
Keep up the great work, Danijela. 🙂
Good afternoom.
New vocabulary:
…ran into…,
…a hike…
Thanks for these lessons. They are very good.
Nelson
Hi everyone
Well, there are a lot of expressions we can’t translatr literally.
I can be gone
I almost forgot…it
I ran into you
Thanks maestro
Hello!
There are several new expressions, I am happy to continue increasing my vocabulary.
Thank you so much Maestro Sersea
Hello! This is a very useful lesson.
Thank you very much Maestro Sersea.
Hello teacher thinks for this lesson, I practice with and it was useful
Hello teacher, how are you? I have watched the videos several times and also read the conversations
to improve my conversation , communication and writing skills. I think, these are very essential dialogues in our daily life. Thanks a lot.
Hello sir,
Thank you so much for this new dialogue conversation I practiced on all the three dialogues.
Thank you sir 🙏
I learned tow sentences that I had never seen before.
I can be gone all weekend.
I am glad I run in to you.
Hello!
Today, I learned a lot from learning videos. I got many vocabularies. However, I focused on pronunciation and read them out loud along with the audio. Thank you so much.