Welcome to Year 1, Week 3, Lesson 1.3.3. Today we will work on your English conversation and reading skills. We begin dialogues 7-9 from our English course, American English Conversations 1. 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.
Dialog 7: Happiness
- Linda: You look happy today!
- Frank: I am happy. I just heard I passed my physics exam.
- Linda: Congratulations! I’m glad somebody’s happy.
- Frank: Why? What’s the matter?
- Linda: Oh, I’m just worried, I guess I have to take a history exam next week.
Dialog 8: Ordering a Meal
(Restaurant sounds)
- Waiter: Are you ready to order now, sir?
- Ralph: Yes. I’ll have tomato soup, roast beef, mashed potatoes, and peas.
- Waiter: That’s tomato soup…roast beef…mashed potatoes…and peas. How do you want the beef—rare, medium, or well done?
- Ralph: Well done, please.
- Waiter: Anything to drink?
- Ralph: Hmmm… just water. I’ll have coffee with my dessert.
Dialog 9: Birthdays
- Patty: How old are you?
- Susan: Nine … but I’ll be ten on May sixteenth.
- Patty: I’m older than you! I’ll be ten on May fourteenth.
- Susan: Are you going to have a birthday party?
- Patty: Maybe. I’ll have to ask my mother.
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.
Dialog 7: Happiness.
When we see somebody happy,or sad,or angry, we can say “You look…”. For example: Hi Bob, your look angry!, what’s the matter? or, Hello Mary, you look great!, what’s happening that I don’t know?
Dialog 8:
When we order meal and the waiter is ask our order, we can begin with “I’ll have…”. or “We’ll have…”; that should be better than “I want to eat…”.
Dialog 9:
In the sentence “Are you going to have a birthday party?”, the future is making with “going to”. That sound better than “will” because here “going to” is similar tu “planing”, so we can write “Are you planing to have…”. For me is this case is better to say “Are you going to…”.
From these lessons, the following are new to me. I need to practice using them.
Congratulations! I’m glad somebody’s happy.
I’ll have tomato soup………
– rare, medium, or well done?
Are you going to have a birthday party?
Yes, Ei. We learn new things each day. When it comes to grilling meat, we usually say, “rare, medium, or well done” depending on how long we keep the meat on the grill.
Maestro Sersea
Hello!
The dialogues are clear, my pronunciation is not so bad.
See you in the next lesson.
Great job, Nikolay. Keep up the great work. 🙂
mongi gani
i found this course, American emglish conversation useful and effective to help me improving my comprehension and communication skills. i also felt my English pronunciation was improved when i repeated many times the words and sentences after the video reader.
thank you for everything
my best wishes
I’m glad the class is working for you, Mongi. Keep working on your English. 🙂
Maestro Sersea
Hello
This lesson is really helpful to me! It helps me to improve my pronunciation. As I said before, I used to struggle with English and French pronunciation, but the way you read slowly and clearly help me to listen carefully and repeat after you. I did that many times and finally, I get used.
Thank you so much
Wonderful job, Albertine. Keep smiling. 🙂
Hi teacher,
Thank you for these helpful and effective lessons. Dialog 7. when somebody happy and we are unhappy so how we should behave to them or we are happy and someone is unhappy too.
Dialog 8. We are learning when we go to the restaurant how we should order the meal and how exactly should behave with the waiters.
Dialog 9. all about birthday and party.
I wish all best for you.
Hadi, thank you for summarizing what you learned here. Well done! 🙂
dialog 7 happiness
When we ask about mood (you look happy ),I’m glad somebody happy ,just worried or i gust to have.
dialog 8 ordering meal
first the waiter ask customer if he or she ready to order then while the restraint have many meal like(tomato soup ,mashed potatoes ,beef(rare ,medium ,well done beef).
dialog 9 birthday
if we have birthday or another event .we can ask( are you going to have while the period for future),i will have to go.
Hind, I’m glad you paid close attention to the 3 dialogues for this lesson. 🙂
Hello,
Thanks for the very interesting dialogues. I will use from in practice.
Zoia,
Thank you for your kind words. I encourage you to practice these dialogues with family, friends, and colleagues.
Best wishes,
Maestro Sersea
Thank you Maestro Sersea! I have read and practise every dialogue carefully. And I feel an improvement in my English pronunciation. Best wishes.
Hi Danijela. I’m happy you feel you’re making improvements in your English pronunciation. 🙂
Hello. This is Wilber from Nicaragua. I learned that we can have the beef rare (cooked for a very short period of time), medium or well done (cooked for a longer period of time). These words are new for me: roast beef, mashed potatoes. I also learned that I can say: I´ll be 15 years old to express that I’ll reach a certain age. Thanks.
Hello,
These conversations are very useful and effective to help me improving english pronunciation and communication skills. Meanwhile for the better English pronunciation results I have to listen to each dialog carefully, then record myself reading each dialog and re – record until my recording with original recording are similar and practice each dialog with other people.
Thank you !
Eta, yes, recording is very helpful to do to improve pronunciation. 🙂
Well, in this lesson we practice how to pronounce some new words and how to express some ideas in three aspects of the daily life. It combine listening, reading and speaking to develope conversation skills
Good job here, Nelson. Watch out for subject verb agreement “combine/combines” and spelling “develop/develope”. 🙂
Hello I’m Farahnaz, l have read and practise every dialogue carefully it is very helpful. Thank you
Keep up the good work, Farahnaz! 🙂
Hello, Maestro Sersea!
New for me in thes lesson was a using word ‘to have’ instead words ‘to want’/ ‘to need’ when ordering a meal
I’m glad you’re learning, Maryia. 🙂
For the first time I like to delivere my thanks for maestro sersea to join me for your class without any payment God bless you. Ok that learned today is ( i )To ask and answer in the context of the reporting the results of exam ( ii )To ask and answer if you are going to the restaurant ( iii )To ask and answer in context of birthday celebration
I’m happy you’re learning with us Mmase. Welcome aboard! 🙂
It’s a plaisure for me to knwo how to Ask some questions if some one IS happy, IS ordering something…
I’m happy you’re learning English with us, Osee! 🙂
This courses are helpful for we the beginners. I learned the names of some meals and how to order meal.
Thank you for the pronunciation too!
Welcome to our English course, Saa Firmin. I’m happy you’re enjoying it. 🙂
Hello! From these dialogues, I knew English conversations in different situations like expressing happiness, ordering meal and birthday celebrations. I like to hear “I’m glad somebody’s happy.” and ‘rare, medium and well done’ to order meat item.
Well done, Rajan. I’m glad you’re learning English with us. 🙂
Hello!
At these lessons I learned several new words. I’m thankful.
Thank you Maestro Sersea.
Ana, I’m happy your English vocabulary is improving. Well done!
Hello sir
These all videos were useful
Now I can order for mele (morning, evening and afternoon) also the several new words such as
Famish
Dining out or eating out…
Thank you so much
Well done, Sweeta. 🙂
Hi today I learned three new words : rare , medium and well done . To order meat in a restaurant we need to know how we like to have our meat .
The lesson is very easy . We can easily understand the meaning of all the words even the meaning of the three words I learned today . We learn in a fluid way.
My prononciation seems to be better now .
Thank you MR. Sersea
I’m glad you’re improving your pronunciation. 🙂
Thank you
Thank you for your message, Shambel. 🙂
Hello
Maestro Sersea ! These three dialogues were very useful to me! It helps me to improve my pronunciation. I knew how to keep up conversations about happiness, birthday celebrations, and ordering in restaurants.
Yes, Irina. These dialogues are useful. I’m glad you like them. 🙂
These dialogues are so workable in our daily life. Thank you sir for teaching us these dialogues.
I learned new words today I am very glad to have this session
I read this dialogue several times. It is very essential my dailylife. I learned some new sentence which I can use easily now. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing. I’m glad you find our English dialogues useful. 🙂
hello
these dialogs were useful as examples about how to speak about the happy situations, greeting and ordering in the restaurant and about age and birthday party.
thanks alot
Thank you for teach I glad to your teaching method
Hello!
Today I learned about happiness, ordering a meal and birthday party conversations. I learned new words and phrases that are “I’m glad somebody’s happy” and “I’m just worried”. And mashed potatoes, roast beef and for beef( rare, medium and well done). I also learned that “I’ll be ten on May sixteenth”. Thank you a lot.
Hello! Today I learned many things from these dialogues especially, the way we Can have our beef in a restaurant. Also I learned the word mashed potatoes and then the word I guess. Thank you very much Indeed.