1. Is anyone using the telephone?
2. Is anyone watching TV? Or I'll turn it off.
3. You may go into the baby's room. She is not sleeping now.
4. A: It's so hot today, Lynn. I feel like I am melting.
B: I know. I wish we were in Australia. It's winter there now－nice and cool.
5. A: Why are you shivering?
B: Because it's chilling in here.
6. Because our factory is losing money, we will have to lay off some of our workers.
1. Harry: You're a very attractive person.
Sally: Thank you.
Harry: Amanda never said how attractive you were.
Sally: Well, maybe she doesn't think I am attractive.
Harry: I don't think it's a matter of opinion, empirically you are attractive.
Sally: Amanda is my friend.
Harry: So?
Sally: So you're going with her.
Harry? So?
Sally: So you're coming on to me!
Harry: No, I wasn't.
Sally: We're just going to be friends, OK?
Harry: Great! Friends! It's the best thing.
(On the road once more.)
Harry: You realize of course that we can never be friends.
Sally? Why not?
Harry: What I'm saying is... and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form, is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there's no sex involved.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: You're saying I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: No, what I'm saying is they all want to have sex with you.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do, too.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do, too.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no men can be friends with a woman he finds attractive, he always wants to have sex with her.
Sally: So you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive.
Harry: Nuh, he pretty much wanna nail them, too.
Sally: What if they don't want to have sex with you?
Harry: Doesn't matter, because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Harry: How have you been?
Sally: Fine.
Harry: Are you seeing anybody?
Sally: Harry.
Harry: What?
Sally: I don't want to talk about this.
Harry: Why not?
Sally: I don't want to talk about it.
Harry: Why can't we get pass this? I mean, are we going to carry this thing around forever?
Sally: Forever? It just happened. You want to act like what happened didn't mean anything.
Harry: I'm not saying it didn't mean anything. I am saying why does it have to mean everything!
Sally: Because it does! And you should know that better than anybody because the minute that it happened you walked right out the door.
Harry: I didn't walk out.
Sally: No, sprinted is more like it.
Harry: Fine, fine, but let's just get one thing straight. I did not go over there that night to make love to you, that is not why I went there. But you looked up at me with these big weepy eyes, "Don't go home tonight, Harry, hold me a little longer, Harry." What was I supposed to do?
Sally: What are you saying? You took pity on me?
Harry: No, I was...
Sally: Fuck you!
Marie: He was shaving and there it was in his briefcase.
Sally: What if he came out and saw you looking throught his briefcase?
Marie: You're missing the point, I'm telling you what I found. He just spent a hundred and twenty dollars on a new night gown for his wife. I don't think he's ever going to leave her.
Sally: No one thinks he's ever going to leave her.
Marie: You're right, you're right. I know you're right.
1. What are we waiting for them? Let's get started.
2. I'm not having this conversation with you.
3. You are not asking me to marry you, are you?
4. You are not backing out of our date, are you?
5. You are asking too much!
6. Why are you getting so upset just because I'm two minutes late? You're making this into a bigger deal than it is.
Sally picked up the phone.
Sally: Hi, Harry.
Harry: Hello, hi, hi. I, I didn't... know... that you were there. What are you doing?
Sally: I was just on my way out.
Harry: Where are you going?
Sally: What do you want, Harry?
Harry: Nothing, nothing. I... just called to say I'm sorry.
Sally: OK.
(Long and awkward silence)
Sally: I gotta go.
Harry: Wait a second, wait a , wait a second. What are you doing for New Year's Eve? Are you going to the Tyler's party? Cos I don't have a date, if you don't have a date, we always said that if neither one of us had a date, we could be together for New Years. And we... could... you know... why don't...
Sally: I can't do this any more, I am not your consolution prize. Goodbye.
(Sally hangs up)
Harry: Hmm, I'm getting married.
Sally: You are?
Harry: Umm hmm.
Sally: You are.
Harry: Hmm, yeah.
Sally: Who is she?
Harry: Helen Helson, she is a lawyer, she's keeping her name.
Sally: (Laughs) You're getting married?
Harry: Yeah.
Sally: (Laughs some more.)
Harry: What's so funny about that?
(Marie is getting her wedding dress fitted. Sally is sitting down, watching.)
Sally: Is Harry bring anyone to the wedding?
Marie: I don't think so.
Sally: Is he seeing anyone?
Marie: He is seeing another anthropologist.
Sally: What does she look like?
Marie: Thin, pretty, big tits. Your basic nightmare.
1. We're eating in a restaurant tonight.
2. I am taking a makeup test tomorrow.
3. A: What are you doing on Saturday night?
B: I'm doing some shopping with Jame.
4. Jenny: Yeah, it is getting crowded. Where are you lookiing for an apartment?
5. Frank and Jenny are getting married? I didn't know they were going together.
6. I'm staying at Beijing.
I'm going to stay at Beijing.
7. The red car is going to belong to me tomorrow.
8. The tree is going to fall tomorrow.
9. We're going to win the match next weeked.
1. Scott is very generous. He's always giving his friends gifts and inviting them out for meals.
2. Although Steve is a teacher, in a sense he is a student as well. He is always learning things from his students.
3. He's always pulling my leg. He likes joking me.
4. He's continually asking me for money.
5. My wife is forever looking for her keys.
6. How come Joe is always groaning about things?
7. He's always messing up the kitchen.
8. My little brother is always bugging me. I wish he'd leave me alone.
9. Jack is always borrowing money and forgetting to pay you back.
10. A: Would you like to go to the movies with Lois and me on Friday?
B: I wish I could, but I'm having dinner at my brother's.
11. A: My parents are coming to see our apartment this weekend.
B: Looks as if I'd lend you my vacuum cleaner then.
1. A: I am begging you to give me another chance, Sam!
B: No. It's over. I'm sorry.
2. A: My company is flying me out to Hawaii on business next week.
B: That's great. Where are they putting you up?
3. A: We're having a party at our house on he weekend of the 30th. Would you like to join us?
B: That sounds a lot of fun. But I'll need to check my calendar first.
4. Becky's grandson and his wife are coming to visit her for the first time. So she is giving him the directions to her flat.
"You come to the front door of the Golders Green block of flats. I am in flat number 32 on the 14th floor. At the front door, you'll see a big panel of buttons. With your elbow push button 32. I will buzz you in. Come inside, the lift is on the right. Get in, and with your elbow hit 14. When you get out, I am on the left. With your elbow, hit my doorbell."
"Grandma, that sounds easy, but why am I hitting all these buttons with my elbow?"
"You're coming empty handed?"
1. It was getting darker. The rain was beating on the windows. The wind was rising. A wood fire was burning on the hearth, and a cat was sleeping in front of it. A girl was playing the piano and was singing softly to herself. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door...
2. James Bond was driving through town. It was raining. The wind was blowing hard. Nobody was walking in the streets. Suddenly, Bond saw the killer in a telephone box...
3. I was walking along the street last night when suddenly I heard footsteps behind me. Somebody was following me. I was frightened and started to run.
4. My Husband Will Be Home Soon
A married man was visiting his "girlfriend" when she requested he shave his beard.
"Oh, James, I like you bead, but I would really love to see your handsome face."
James replied, "My wife loves this beard, I couldn't possibly do it, she would kill me!"
"Oh, please! " the girlfriend asked again, in a sexy little voice...
"Oh, really, I can't, " he replied. "My wife loves this beard!"
The girlfriend asked once more, and he sighed and finally gave in. That night James crawled into bed with his wife while she was sleeping.
The wife was awakened somewhat, felt his face and replied, "Oh, Michael, you shouldn't be here, my husband will be home soon!"
1. I was watching TV when the telephone rang.
2. I was walking past the car when it exploded.
3. I was cooking dinner last night when I cut my finger.
4. I was telephoning Harry when she arrived.
5. I was walking past the car when it exploded.
The car exploded when I was walking past it.
The car exploded while I was walking past it.
6. While I was studying in my dorm, my roommates were talkiing loudly with their friends.
7. While I was studying last night, my wife was watching TV.