Travelling to Lima - LINC 3.15
7:37 PM Watch the video. Listen and repeat to improve your pronunciation. Complete the exercise below.
haven't seen • Are you flying • don't have • doesn't work • I'm going • isn't • will that cost • would get • Is there • would be • I'll just check • have to change • do you mean • Are you travelling • are you thinking • rather go • would have to • seems • might miss • can get • to return
Click and Drop: click on a word in the box above and then in the correct space. Check your answers. What is your score?
| AGENT: When of flying? |
| MANUEL: Around the middle of next month. I an exact date. |
| AGENT: And you want to go to Lima? |
| MANUEL: Yes, that's right. |
| AGENT: Okay, just a moment. I'll just see what's available. on business? |
| MANUEL: No, to visit my family. |
| AGENT: That's nice. |
| MANUEL: Yes. I my mother and father in a couple of years. |
| AGENT: I'm sure they're looking forward to it. |
| MANUEL: Yes, they are. |
| AGENT: Okay, the best way is to fly from here to Vancouver, then to Los Angeles. And then catch a flight from there to Lima. |
| MANUEL: So, I planes in Vancouver and Los Angeles? |
| AGENT: Yes, that's right. I have seats on the 14th (fourteenth), and then the next flight is on the 17th (seventeenth), but it's nearly full. |
| MANUEL: On the seventeenth? |
| AGENT: Yes. alone? |
| MANUEL: Yes, I am. |
| AGENT: Then I you on either flight. |
| MANUEL: I think I'd on the seventeenth. |
| AGENT: Okay, and when would you like ? |
| MANUEL: In four weeks. |
| AGENT: Okay. Let me see. Four weeks later is the fourteenth. I can get you a flight from Lima, but the connection in Los Angeles very good. |
| MANUEL: What by that? |
| AGENT: I mean that you to L.A. late in the afternoon. You would have to wait about six hours before you catch your flight to Vancouver. |
| MANUEL: I understand. Can I stay overnight in Los Angeles and fly the next morning? |
| AGENT: Well, you could. But you pay more. With the stopover, it's an extra two hundred dollars, plus your hotel. |
| MANUEL: Oh, that's a lot. any other way to go? |
| AGENT: into it. You could fly through Mexico City. But then you only have half an hour between flights. |
| MANUEL: Hmm. That very short. |
| AGENT: Yes, it is. You your connection. And then you have to change planes again in San Francisco and in Vancouver. |
| MANUEL: I think the first flight was better. |
| AGENT: Would you like me to book that for you? |
| MANUEL: How much ? |
| AGENT: One thousand, one hundred and seventy-eight ($1,178), plus tax, which brings it to $1,295.46 (one thousand, two hundred and ninety-five dollars and forty-six cents). |
| MANUEL: And that's the cheapest rate? |
| AGENT: Yes, unless you go on a charter. A charter $788 (seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars), plus tax. It leaves on the 11th (eleventh). But it's only for two weeks. |
| MANUEL: No, that . I think the first flight was the best. |
| AGENT: I think so, too. |
| MANUEL: Okay then. Please book that for me. |
This exercise has been made using a free generator and script at Random Idea English Video courtesy TRU University – Open Learning Division
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