Hiromi’s Trip to Thailand - Episode 6 :
At the Customs Counter
July 21st, 2005
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6. At the Customs Counter
Customs Officer: Which flight were you on?
Hiromi: The one from Osaka. I just arrived from Japan.
Customs Officer: Are these your bags?
Hiromi: Yes, they are. These are mine.
Customs Officer: Did you pack them yourself?
Hiromi: Yes, I did. I packed everything myself.
Customs Officer: Do you have anything to declare?
Hiromi: I’m sorry, I don’t understand. What do you mean?
Customs Officer: Are you carrying any drugs or weapons?
Hiromi: No, definitely not.
Customs Officer: Do you have any gifts for anybody?
Hiromi: No, I don’t know anybody in Thailand.
Customs Officer: What’s in this bag?
Hiromi: Just some clothes and personal effects, toiletries and stuff.
Customs Officer: Could you open this one please?
Hiromi: Sure.
Credits: written by Mark White; voices by Kullapart Ratphibull and Hiromi Campbell; airport ambient sound clipped from ‘newark.mp3′ by D. Jean Hester at Opsound. Visit Hester’s site.
Tags: adverbs, could, customs, customs and immigration, declare, definitely, demonstratives, dialogs, Dialogues, flight, Hiromis Trip to Thailand, Japan, mine, polite requests, present continuous tense, present simple tense, Thailand, these, wh questions
I wonder if this might not be a better podcast if you only used native speakers for the conversations. While it might be useful for students to listen to various non-native accents, these could also be used for pronunciation practice, if you only used native speakers.
Other than that, great work! I wish you the best. Keep up the good work. I’m sure it will be appreaciate by many.
Hey Jeff…thanks so much for your feedback! Escellent suggestion, too. Actually, Mark and I considered that, but thought we’d try the actual accents of the characters for this series, which include both native and non-native accents. We figure that would approximate the actual experience of EFL/ESL learners closer than listening to native speakers alone, espeically now that English is such an international language.
Do you have a site? Are you a teacher?