A: What can I do? My connecting flight may be gone because we landed so late.
B: When we come into the terminal, just ask the people at the arrival gate.
A: I don’t speak Korean and they may not understand me.
B: No big deal, I’ll translate for you.
A: Please tell her I’m supposed to connect to JAL-422.
B: She says you can’t make it. They already departed the gate. So, please go to the ticket counter in the next part of the building.
A: OK, here’s the ticket counter. How can I get to Tokyo tonight?
B: He says it is impossible to get there tonight. But, they will put you on the first flight in the morning.
A: When does it get to Tokyo?
B: It should land by 11:30 AM.
A: So, I will miss my meeting in Tokyo and I don’t have a place to stay tonight.
B: He says don’t sweat it. They’ll put you up in a hotel and convey you there.
A: What can I do about my flight tomorrow?
B: He’s printing your new ticket and boarding pass now.
A: What about my bags? I need my clothes and medication.
B: The bags are not available here. They have been forwarded to Tokyo. They should be there when you land tomorrow.
A: But, now I need some clean clothes to change into.
B: He will give you a $200 clothing voucher for the airport shop. They can’t help you with your medication.
A: Thank you for helping me. I will carry a change of clothes and medicine in my carry-on from now on.
B: They apologize for our late arrival. I hope the rest of your trip goes without a hitch.
Now please check any vocabulary you don’t know.
Words and Phrases to work on ( try your dictionary ):
- connecting flight
- arrival gate
- no big deal
- supposed to connect to
- departed
- convey
- forwarded
- put you up
- Don’t sweat it
- Voucher
- goes without a hitch
Comments
@Mr.Bob
Thanks so much for the quick reply. The tool (Ngram Reviewer) sounds like fun and so useful, but sorry Google isn't available right now here in China.
So it seems it's not/it isn't a matter of British or American English. Does it mean the spelling "dialog" can be seen in both British and American English?
Thanks again.
Hi Doc. Thanks for the compliment. Your question regarding the spelling of dialogue got me to researching the alternate (dialog) spelling. I am attaching a corpus study here, but that spelling did not exist measurably in books until the 1960's and didn't show much growth until the 1980's.
When I search with that spelling I mostly get computer and Tech references. I have a feeling that this was a computer programming related spelling and it grew with that industry. The growth curve you can see in this link tracks that of the computer industry very well. That word was not in use in English at the time I learned to spell or when I took composition classes in university. See the corpus study here and feel free to use this tool for some fun research on your own: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=dialog%2Cdialogue&...
I also compared meter and metre just for fun. I used the corpus of Google books from 1800 to the year 2000. This is an interesting visual comparison too: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=meter%2Cmetre&cas...
Nice dialog!
Learners of English here should try to use phrasal verbs such as "put up".
By the way, I wonder if American speakers use the word "dialog" instead of "dialogue"?
Thank you Ivan. I write dialogues for my students to practice in class and I thought this one might be useful to some of our members.
@ Student9: If I want to be taken somewhere, I would say Please take me to the airport or Please drive me. I don't think I would ever say move me. I don't say convey either because it is a more formal word like in a contract. Convey and move are more often used in talking about things rather than people.
Thank you Daughter, I'm glad you liked it.
Thank you Abdallah, Ratu and Student9. We have some new vocabulary and some idioms/slang that you may hear in conversation.
A hitch: to get caught or stuck on something - a problem or difficulty...There was a hitch in our plans, but we still finished our work on time.
Put someone up: give them a place to sleep or stay...My apartment is small, but I can put you up for the night when you come through town.
A voucher: A paper that authorizes an expense or payment. See definition #3 for the noun @ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voucher?s=t
I think Abdallah answered the other questions. There are many good on-line dictionaries and a Google search will find any phrase that you need. Please let me know if I can help explain some of these better or give you some better examples. :)
I'm unable to find the meaning of this phrase { goes without a hitch} would you note it for me?
Convey/kan'vei/ 1. to make ideas, feelings, etc known to sb 2. To take , carry or transport sb/sth from one place to another >pipes convey hot water the boiler to the radiators
deliver/di'liva(r)/ to take goods, letters etc to the person or people they have been sent to; to take sb somewhere
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