Monthly Archives: January 2008

Family

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OK, first one, in this picture we have a mother and her children and it looks like she is with her daughters. She has two children, two daughters and she is helping them most likely do their homework.
OK, in the next picture, we have a picture of a baby, a very young baby, and the baby is with it’s mother, and just it’s mother. We can’t see the father, and it looks like they are taking a nap.

OK, in this next picture we have the whole family together, and we can see the father and the mother and there are two children. It looks like there are two boys. There are two boys in the family and they are eating dinner.

OK, in this next picture we have a father with his child and they are outside and the father is with the son, and it looks like they are playing a little golf and the father just gave the son a high five.

OK, in this next picture we can see a family all together and they are taking it easy and just relaxing. You can see the mother and the father and two daughters and the daughters are sleeping and it looks like the parents are watching TV.

OK, in the last picture, uh, we can see a big family, and we can see the mother and the father and two sons and it looks like three daughters and from the looks of it they are taking their family portrait.

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New Year

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Sales crowd

It is 2008. Happy New Year, everyone. What did you do during the Christmas and New Year holiday? How did you celebrate New Year?

Traditionally in England, Christmas was our big winter celebration. Scotland was different. In Scotland, New Year was the more important celebration. On New Year’s Eve, on 31 December, Scotsmen wore kilts, and had parties where they danced traditional Scottish dances and welcomed the New Year with bagpipes. And we English? What did we do? Well, we either watched television programmes about Scottish people having a great party on New Year’s Eve; or we went to bed early.

But it isn’t like that today. The Scots still party on New Year’s Eve, but so do we in England. The Scots still have a huge street party in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, with bands and singers and fireworks. But so do we in many cities in England. In London, for example, 700,000 people watched a great fireworks display on the river Thames. Of course, not everyone went to a New Year’s Eve party. But many of those who stayed at home watched other people having a party on television. Millions of people watched the London fireworks on television, for example. It is as if we all want to be part of a big national New Year’s Eve party.

Here are some other things which are typical of England at New Year. People visit friends and relatives. They go for walks in the country, or in the parks in towns. Some brave folk go for a swim in the sea or a river on New Year’s Day. People read books, or go to football matches, or write thank-you letters for the gifts they received at Christmas. Travelling at during the holiday is a particular adventure. There are traffic jams on the roads, and long queues at the airports, and our railway system is in chaos, because Christmas and New Year is the time when major engineering works take place. And we go shopping.

Traditionally, all the big stores had sales in January. They cut the prices of many of the things they sold, especially things like winter clothes or goods which they had not managed to sell for Christmas. There were lots of special offers, and people used to queue all night outside some of the stores, in order to get to the bargains first when the store opened. So what is different today? Only that the sales now begin immediately after Christmas. Indeed some stores begin their sales before Christmas Day. And now we can hunt for bargains on the internet as well as in the shops. The newspapers have reported that we British spent £84m buying things on the internet on Christmas Day.

But now it is January. The weather is dark and wet. The long Christmas and new Year holiday is over. It is time to go back to work. Time to lose some weight. Time to give up smoking. Time to pay our credit card bills. Happy New Year.

The hotel

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Transcript:
Hello. Welcome to the hotel. We have everything ready for you. You’ve already checked in online, so first let me tell you about your room. You’ve ordered the deluxe room and it comes with one large king size bed, and in your room we have a work area with a desk and chair. Luckily for you, this room has just been remodeled so it has new furniture and new wallpaper, so it looks really nice so you’ll have one of your premium rooms.

OK, here is your room key. As you can see this is a modern key, so what you need to do with this is slide this into the door and slide the key into the door with the holes facing the door and you’ll see a light come on and it will unlock the door, so that’s how you get in the room.

Also, for all guests we offer one free, complimentary beverage at the bar, so the bar is located outside of the hotel by the pool. It’s also near the beach, so take this down to the bar outside, and you can get your free drink.

Also, part of your hotel package, you have a free breakfast and your breakfast is the super healthy pack, which comes with an egg, and fruit and your choice of beverage as well.

Oh, one more thing, I forgot to mention, in your room, you are only on the third floor and your bathtub is by the window, so if you take a bath be sure to close the blinds because people can see you in the bathtub because it’s so close to the window, so please remember that.

And lastly, the room attendants will come by to clean your room usually at around 10 o’clock, so they’ll come by, give you fresh towels, clean up the room. If you do not want your room cleaned at that time please call down and tell somebody and we can postpone it for later.

OK, thank you very much. I hope you enjoy your stay and thanks for checking in.