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Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.

Эккерсли К.Э. Базовый курс английского языка — М.: Лист Нью, 2002. — 704 c.
ISBN 5-7871-0174-X
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FRIEDA: I think, the grocer's.
MR. PRIESTLEY: Very well. Jan, you can be the grocer-and here, Jan, is your customer.
GROCER: Good morning, madam. What can I get for you?
FRIEDA: I want a pound of Danish butter.
GROCER: Yes, madam. Anything else?
FRIEDA: How much a pound is bacon?
GROCER: We have it at 3/8 a pound.
FRIEDA: Is this the three and eight penny?
GROCER: Yes, madam; that is the best quality Irish bacon.
FRIEDA: It looks rather fat; we like it lean.
GROCER: Here is a nice lean piece. Shall I cut you some from this piece?
FRIEDA: Yes, that looks very good; it isn't salty, is it?
GROCER: No, madam, you will not find this salty at all.
FRIEDA: Very well. I'll take a pound and a half, cut thin.
GROCER: Thank you. Anything more?
FRIEDA: I want a quarter of a pound of Indian tea and a quarter of a pound of China tea.
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GROCER: Certainly, madam. Any coffee today? We have some very good, freshly-roasted coffee-beans.
FRIEDA: Is the coffee already ground? I haven't a coffee mill to grind it.
GROCER: No, madam, it isn't ground. 1 can grind it for you while you wait, then the coffee will keep its flavour.
FRIEDA: Well, I'll take half a pound of coffee. That's all.
GROCER: Will you kindly pay at the desk. Good morning, madam and thank you.
* * *
MR. PRIESTLEY: Yes, that was good.
HOB: Instead of shopping, can I tell stories about the shops or situations?
MR. PRIESTLEY: All right, Hob.
HOB: Well, here is one about a grocer's:
A small boy went into a grocer's shop and said, "I want a pound of butter exactly like the last. If it is not the same, mother said, we don't want it."
GROCER: It is very nice to find people have such a good opinion of my butter.
SMALL BOY: Oh, it's not that. A lot of father's relations are coming to tea, and mother doesn't want them to come again.
MR. PRIESTLEY: Now, Olaf, I think we will send you to the doctor's. I am sure no one here has less need of a doctor than you have, so this conversation will need some imagination. Pedro, you had better be the doctor. Olaf has just entered your consulting-room.
DOCTOR: Good evening, Mr. Peterson. What's the trouble? You certainly don't look as if there is anything wrong with you.
OLAF: I haven't been feeling very well for some time. I have lost my appetite and I don't sleep very well. 1 have rather a bad cough that I can't get rid of, and a pain in my chest, sometimes, when I breathe.
DOCTOR: I see. Very well. You had better have a thorough examination. Let me see your tongue... Yes, your stomach is a little
out of order... Now your pulse... Yes, that's all right. Now just unfasten your coat and waistcoat and shirt and I'll listen to your heart and chest. Say "Ninety-nine."
OLAF: Ninety-nine.
DOCTOR: Again.
OLAF: Ninety-nine, ninety-nine.
DOCTOR: Do you smoke a lot?
OLAF: Well, rather a lot, I'm afraid; twenty or thirty cigarettes a day.
DOCTOR: H'm! You ought to cut that down for a time. Let me see your throat. Open your mouth. Say "Ah!"
OLAF: Ah' Ah!
DOCTOR: Again.
OLAF: Ah! Ah! Ah!
DOCTOR: All right, that will do. You can put your coat on again now. What do you weigh?
OLAF: Twelve stone, two.
DOCTOR: Have you been losing weight at all?
OLAF: No, 1 don't lose or gain, at least never more than a pound or so one way or another.
DOCTOR: Well, there's nothing serious the matter with you, but you are rather run down. You have been working too hard. You know you can't burn the candle at both ends, and you need a real rest. I'll give you a bottle of medicine that will help. Take a tablespoonful in water three times a day after meals. Eat plenty of good plain food, have no cigarettes and drink plenty of milk, at least a pint a day, and not much coffee; get plenty of fresh air and plenty of sleep, but, above all, don't try to do too much. A real change of air and surroundings would be very helpful if you could manage it.
OLAF: As a matter of fact, I have been invited to go and stay with some friends in their cottage in Cornwall.
DOCTOR: That's just the thing. But remember, take it easy. Not too much swimming or tennis, at least for a week or two, but a good walk by the sea or along the cliffs every day would do you a world of good. I will see you again when you come back, just to make sure you are all right. Don't worry about yourself. If that holiday in Cornwall
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doesn't work wonders 1 shall be very much surprised. Another month and you'll be as fit as a fiddle. Good evening.
MR. PRIESTLEY: Well, Olaf, you did that so well that I almost began to think you were ill. And if you were ill, I think a doctor like Pedro is just the man to cure you.
PEDRO: i x. .
OLAF: } ТНа"кУ°"-"
MR- PRIESTLEY: Well, Hob, you said you could tell a story for each of the "situations". I don't suppose you know one about a doctor.
HOB: Oh, yes, I do. It's about a very simple countrywoman who went to the doctor to tell him that her husband had a very severe headache. The doctor said, "I have so many patients coming to see me that I can't see your husband today. But do this: Put some ice in a bag, tie it round his head and let me know how he is tomorrow." The next day the woman came again and the doctor said, "Well, how is your husband?" "Oh," she said, "he's quite all right now, the headache has completely gone; but the mice1 are all dead."
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