Long Conversations A: Victor: You look beautiful, love bug! Helen: I do, don't I? Victor: Why, you could pass for a movie star, or a glamorous top fashion model! Helen: ...Hic...Hic!...Hic!...Hic! Victor: Baby! You've got the hiccups! Helen: Hic! Hic...
B: (They keep walking in the corridor.) Helen: ...Hic...They're getting worse! Maybe...Hic...you'd just...Hic...better take me...Hic...home. Victor: Let me get my coat. C: (Helen passes by the dean's office.) Dean: What time will that national TV new...
C: (Helen passes by the dean's office.) Dean: What time will that national TV news reporter be here, Mrs. Johnson? Secretary: He said by lunch time. Helen: (Stops and listens) ...Hic! Dean: Since they're broadcasting live, he wants to interview as ma...
D: (Helen walks to the wash room.) Helen: Hic! I've got three hours to get rid of these hideous hiccups! Fortunately, they'll never miss me first hour in study hall...Hic! (In the wash room) Helen: I'll try drinking some water...Ahh...! Much better a...
Long Conversations A: Dad: No! You are not going on a vacation by yourself! I forbid it! Claire: Dad! I'm a big girl now! Besides, it's only for four days! Mom: I need a vacation! You two have been at this all week! Dad: No more of this...I'm finishe...
B: (Ten minutes later, a cab arrives.) Claire: Bye, Mom and Dad! Mom: (Saying to Dad) You certainly relented in a hurry! You used to be so over- protective of your daughter. Dad: I still am, my dear. That is not an ordinary cab and driver I've called...
C: (In the cab) Claire: (Sitting in the back seat) Hmm! Cool shades! Imported Super-Egos! Uncommonly expensive. Rarely seen on cabbies! (Claire steps out of the cab and walks to the terminal building.) Alex: Take the cab back, Henry! Henry: Good luck...
D: (In the coach of the plane) Claire: There's another pair of those imported Super-Egos on that redheaded man! What a coincidence! Yeah, coincidence? (Claire arrives at the beach.) Claire: Those disguises don't fool me! I'm sure dad's sent Mr. Sungl...
Long Conversations A: Helen: Victor, there's a good review of your article on pollution in today's paper. Victor: Really? Maybe I should go pick up a few extra copies. Helen: Do you have change? Victor: No! I'm totally broke as usual. But I did notic...
B: (Soon) Helen: Hi, dad! I'd better warn you. Victor's here. He just stepped out for a minute. Dad: Wonderful! I'll be in my study! (Helen walks in the study when she hears her dad's shouting.) Helen: Dad? Are you okay? Dad: My dollar! It's gone! It...
C: (Helen and Victor walk out.) Helen: Victor, it seems that dollar was the first one dad ever made. It's a 1965 dollar and my dad signed and dated it on the back. We have to get it back for him! Victor: Sure!...
D: (In the store where Victor bought the newspaper awhile ago) Cashier: I don't see a dollar like that in here. I must have given it to someone else. Helen: Oh, no! Victor: Who's been in here since me? Cashier: Let's see...old lady Sedgewick and Regg...
Long Conversations 1.Conversations: (Find a partner and practice these dialogues.) A: Teacher: (Saying to the principle of the school) Look at little Reggie's history homework, Mr. Bumper. Bumper: Cartoons? Drawings? (Saying to Reggie) Just what has...
B: (Miss Mood walks out of the office.) Bumper: Why do you waste your time doing these silly cartoons? Reggie: I like to draw! Besides, all the kids are paying me to draw pictures of them. Bumper: Paying you? To do these? If everyone looked like this...
C: (Miss Mood rushes into the office.) Miss Mood: What happened? Little Reggie's taken over the whole art room! Bumper: That's right, Miss Mood! We're going to do an educational comic book! Our school is about to go down in history! Miss Mood: If lit...
