Scripts Lesson 07

Checking in At the Airport.
Script.
A: Good morning, sir.Can I have your ticket and Passport please?

B: I’ve got them. Here you are.
A: Thank you. Do you prefer a window seat or an aisle seat?
B: I prefer a window seat please.
A: Do you have any baggage?
B: Yes, I have this suitcase and I have this carry on bag too.
A: Alright.I’ll take the suitcase for you…ok. Here’s your passport and ticket. And here’s your boarding pass. Your seat is 32A by the window. Your flight is on time and boarding starts at 11:30 at gate 12. Have a nice flight.
B: Thank you. Bye.


Get in Touch Page 19.
Script.
You know what the word “touch” means. As I type these words, my fingers touch the computer keyboard. If I touch something hot, I will burn myself. But what does it mean if I say that I am “in touch” with someone? Here are some examples.

I have a friend. We were at university together. His career and mine have taken very different paths. We now live about 300km apart. But every Christmas we send each other Christmas cards and a letter saying what we and our families have been doing during the year. Every few years I go and visit him. We are IN TOUCH with each other – we have regular contact with each other. We can also say that we STAY IN TOUCH or that we KEEP IN TOUCH with each other.
I have another friend. We were at school together. But many years ago we stopped writing to each other I do not know what he is doing or where he lives. We have LOST TOUCH with each other. You remember that in our recent podcast, Terry and Terry also lost touch with each other.
However, recently I saw my friend’s name on a university website. Surely it must be the same person. So I am going to send him an e-mail, and see if he remembers me. I am going to GET IN TOUCH with him. (I will tell you what happens in a later podcast).
A year ago, my daughter left primary school and started secondary school. But many of her friends from primary school go to different secondary schools. This is how she KEEPS IN TOUCH with them.
I telephone some of my friends and chat with them. Sometimes we arrange that they can come and stay overnight at my house, or I can go to their house.

Her friend Amber KEEPS IN TOUCH with her friends like this.

I have got a website with photos and games and music, and a shout box where my friends write messages to me. I have MSN messenger, and 65 of my friends have MSN messenger too. And sometimes I write a letter to my Nan.

You see. that is the difference between young people like Amber and old people like me. Young people KEEP IN TOUCH with MSN messenger. Old people send each other Christmas cards.

Sesame Street Extra Exercise: Family with Al Roker".
Script (Al Roker's segment).
You know what word I’m really fun of: family. Family is a really good word. Just listen to the way it sounds: family. The word family makes me feel great. Just like a real family does. Hey, would you like to see my family? Take a look. Here’s my uncle bob and that’s my cousin Jim, and over here is my great grandpa, down here I got my aunt Harriet and her family and my second cousin Herb and wait: I got some more family members, hold on, just a second, this is great uncle Ned and of course this is my little Cindy. She’s very sweet. I love…oh I got more pictures too, don’t go, don’t. wait.

Sesame Street Extra Exercise: Mail with Christopher Meloni.
Script.
Letter A: Once upon a time, yesterday, little Billy Post wrote a letter to his grandma in Toledo. Hee, hee, hee, that tickles. And then he mailed me. Wow! My journey had begun. Inside the mailbox there were lots of other letters and packages going to places all over the world.

Letter B: I’m going to the North Pole.
Letter C: I’m going to South America.
Letter A: Wow!
Letter C: And where are you going junior?
Letter A: I’m going to grandma’s house.
Letter C: Wow, lucky you!
Letter A: All of the sudden, The mail box opened…And later another letter carrier delivered me to grandma’s mailbox. Grandma, is that you?
Grandma: Oh, a letter from Billy.
Letter A: Oh, Grandma’s sure glad to get me.