Sunday, April 28, 2013

Conversation exercise



Dialog Bahasa Inggris dengan judul At the Post Office ini menceritakan tentang orang yang ingin mengirimkan sebuah parsel. Beberapa vocabulary dalam dialog bahasa Inggris ini sangat mudah untuk dipahamai sehingga tidak perlu ada penambahan keterangan mengenai makna-makna kata dalam conversation / percakapan pada teks di bawah yang belum jelas.sbb.



MICHAEL                : Excuse me.

COUNTER CLERK  : Yes?

MICHAEL               : I want to send this parcel, please.

COUNTER CLERK  : Do you want to send it by letter .post or parcel post? It'd be three rupees fifty paise1  
                                   by letter post, and two rupees twenty-five paise by parcel post.
MICHAEL               : You'd better send it by letter post. It might be quicker.

COUNTER CLERK  : All right. Anything else I can do for you?2
MICHAEL               : Yes. Could you weigh this letter, please?

COUNTER CLERK  : It's just over twenty grams. It'll cost you one rupee forty paise. Here're the stamps for
                                  the parcel and the letter. Will you affix them, please?

MICHAEL               : I also want twenty inland letter sheets and ten stamped envelopes.

COUNTER CLERK  : By all means. But wait a minute, please. Let me first give you the receipt for the
                                  parcel. Here's the receipt. And here's the postal stationery.

MICHAEL                : Thank you very much. Can I leave the parcel there on the desk in front of you?

COUNTER CLERK   : Yes. But put the letter in the box over there.
MICHAEL                 : Oh, yes. Thank you very much.