A New Life in Mosquito City – Part 22
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Mark: Hello, Mr Bestluck?
Peter: Hi there. Come on in. Welcome.
Mark: My name is Mark White.
Peter: Hi Mark. How are you doing?
Mark: Good.
Peter: Take a seat on the black leather sofa.
Mark: Thanks a lot.
Peter: Make yourself comfortable.
Mark: Thanks for agreeing to see me today. I am sure you don’t have much time.
Peter: No problem whatsoever.
Mark: I have come to ask you about your recent acquisition of Mosquito City…
Peter: U-hum.
Mark: … Airlines.
Peter: Yes.
Mark: Was it a sudden decision to buy the airline company?
Peter: It is one of my dreams come true actually. I had been thinking about this for quite a long time, although I hadn’t told anybody until very recently.
Mark: Oh wow! I have got a scoop.
Peter: You have got a scoop. Yeah. (laughs) It has just all happened (at the) beginning of last week.
Mark: Right..So..?
Peter: I phoned David Bowie. You know David?
Mark: Yeah
Peter: And he has..He said that I can buy his jets from him. Marvelous. At a very reasonable price as well.
Mark: you are buying a new fleet.
Peter: Yeah. That is right.
Mark: Right. So you have always wanted to be in the airline industry?
Peter: Not really. It is just something to do. You know. Something. A little bit of fun on the side.
Mark: With all your money?
Peter: Well, that is true.
Mark: Yeah. well. You plan to expand the airline company. Do you think that the Mosquito City Airport is big enough for this new fleet of jets?
Peter: Well, I do because I think that Mosquito City is becoming quite a phenomenon.
Mark: Uh-huh.
Peter: Everybody wants to come here.
Mark: Right.
Peter: And I can understand why because it is “Happy Happy Land”, if you know what I mean.
Mark: I must say it is a beautiful place. I have only just arrived myself a couple of days ago. I got a job. I am making a lot of money. I am staying at the hotel for nothing. This is a great place.
Peter: Just one day. Just imagine… one week … one month…one year.
Mark: How long have you been here?
Peter: I have been here sort of most of my life actually.
Mark: Were you born rich?
Peter: Well, I was born rich inside.
Mark: Inside?
Peter: It sounds a bit sort of corny doesn’t it but ahh..
Mark: No. Not really.
Peter: What is the point of being rich if you are not rich inside?
Mark: All that glitters is not gold.
Peter: Very true.
Mark: Money isn’t everything. So your fortune has grown since you inherited it?
Peter: It has grown considerably.
Mark: M-hm. What kind of industries have you invested in?
Peter: Well…actually I am building a golf course next to the new airport.
Mark: Right. Ok.
Peter: So you will have to come down and see it with me.
Mark: Yes.
Peter: How about tomorrow?
Mark: Ok. Yeah. That sounds great. I would love to.
Peter: Great. Fantastic.
Mark: What time?
Peter: Maybe..how about… I am laughing now … six o’clock in the morning?
Mark: Six o’clock in the morning.
Peter: Yes.
Mark: So early?
Peter: There will be my stretch-limo waiting for you outside your hotel.
Mark: Oh wow! Yes!
Peter: With a chauffeur.
Mark: Ok. Yes.
Peter: No problem.
Mark: Wow!
Peter: See you tomorrow, ok?
Mark: Ok. See you tomorrow. Bye bye.
Peter: Bye.
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very interesting coversation
It is great program to learn the english language
“I am making a lot of money” What does it means?
Hi Yula, ‘making money’ is the same as ‘earning money’.
Thanks Aaron~
Your site is very awesome!
I learned a lot of vocabularies and my listening skills improves..
keep up the good work!
best wishes,
yula
Thanks
Very good
Mahmood from Afghanistan
hi!
Mark doesnt make inversion when he is asking Peter about something
Is it common in spoken english to do so?
Best regards
Jarek
It is more common to use inversion questions (are you..?) but it is also ok to use intonation questions:
You are …?
Both are ok. The first one is more common.
hi
thank you for conversation go ahead i appreciate you
wow,,,that is the interesting dialogue…
l like to learning english…
THIS CLASS WAS ENTERTAINMENT ALTHOUGH I FOUND NEW WORDS.
Thanks for the side which I found for the first time today. And I am enthusiastic.
I am a beginner. Therefore a question:
I heared for the first time: Sort of most, sort of corny. Does one know other expressions for that?
I read the is side for the first time and I am enthusiastic.
A queastion: What means a sort of most , asort of corny?
Can one give me an other expression for that?
thanks a lot for the great audio, u help me how to mention each of the words correctly and of course,, i learn something new today..again..God bless u!!
Thank you very much!
I found it very interesting and useful. I’ve put it on my music player. And I’m gonna listen to it for a thousand times.
Why do they say hi there? Is it different from just hi?
it very interesting for me i like
thank you
David Bowie has some really eccentric personality but i like his style of music. he is a good actor too.:;;
when i hear about David Bowie, it reminds me of Vanilla Ice. ~;`
WOw this is very intrested conversation,i find it very intresting……….
david bowie has this weird stuff character on him but he is cool`;;
Hi Aaron
Good morning !
Thank you for your great help to the English learners.
In the above conversation , I could not understand the sentence “It sounds a bit sort of corny”,Could you please make me understand.
Thanks once again.
Hi friend, I think “corny” here means “sentimental” or ‘melodramatic” – i had actually looked in the dictionary hehehehe. Good bye and happy learning for all!
David Bowie is a classic, i like all his songs during the old days. “-,
this is an excellent program for learning English! Thanks Aaron
Thank you very much,
I am getting more and more enthusiastic.Please keep sanding me this lesson. You are building the world in unity and harmony. God bless you.