89. THE STOLEN BICYCLE
Officer: Excuse me, madam.
Amy: Oh sergeant, you’ve come to learn about Mrs Miller’s bicycle, haven’t you? The one that
stolen this morning.
Officer: That’s right, madam. Now,
you kindly answer a few questions, please?
Amy: Why, of course.
Officer:What
you doing at seven thirty this morning?
Amy: At seven thirty you said? I
cooking breakfast in the kitchen. My husband just getting up and my sister
still asleep.
Officer:You couldn’t see Mr Miller’s porch from your kitchen
window, could you, madam?
Amy: No, I couldn’t. The window looks out on the back garden. I can
only see a part of their porch from my dining room window.
Officer:And
you in the dining room at all at that time, madam?
Amy: Wehaving breakfast there at about eight.
Officer:the bicycle still in the porch then?
Amy: I
sorry, sergeant, I 
n’t know. We
n’t look.
Officer:you hear anything?
Amy: I think I heard the Millers’ gate open and close. But I thought that Mrs Millergoing out.
Officer: Perhaps, your husband noticed something as heleaving
the house?
Amy: My husband? In’t think he, sergeant. He
busy trying to start the car. And believe me, sergeant, STARTING our car
a full time job (нелегкое дело).
LISTEN, ANSWER AND TRANSLATE
What Amy doing at seven thirty? – She cooking breakfast.
What Alan doing? – He just getting up.
What Alan and Amy doing about eight? – They having breakfast.
Where they having breakfast? - They having breakfast in
the dining room.
Could Amy see Mr Miller’s porch from her kitchen window? - No,
she couldn’t.
Why? – Because the window looks out on (to look out on smwhere. -
выходить на какую-л. сторону) the back garden.
Amy hear anything? - She heard the Millers’ gate open and close.
Whatshe think it was? – She thought Mrs Miller going out.
Alan notice anything as he leaving the house? – No, he n’t. He trying to start the car.
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90. THE BICYCLE 
FOUND
Amy: I’ve to see Mrs Miller.
Alan: Oh,
you? What about their bicycle? they found it?
Amy: Yes, they. Itfound this morning. Or rather it
returned.
Alan: Returned?
Amy: Yes, they found it standing in the porch as usual.
Alan: So theyn’t even know who took it yesterday?
Amy: Oh, yes, they. The thieffound too.
Alan: Well, whoit?
Amy: A young boy about 13 (thirteen). He caught this morning as he leaving the Millers’ garden. He taken to the police station,
but they let him go later.
Alan: You say he returned the bicycle?
Amy: He says hen’t want to steal it. He just wanted to ride.
Alan: That’s probably true.
Amy: But a bicycle ridemuch fun he says. Next time, he says, heborrow a motorbike.
Alan: The young rascal! They ought to teach him a lesson. What
the Millers going to do about it?
Amy: Nothing. Mrs Millerthe boy’s mother. She says she
quite understands her feelings.
Alan: She probably
. The Millers have a lot of trouble with
their own boy.
Amy: Yes, theyquite worried. He always getting into
scrapes (to get into scrapes - влипнуть в историю).
Alan: It’s their own faults! Theynot strict enough with him. They’ve spoiling him for years.
Amy: Oh, Alan, now you 
getting on your hobbyhorse (to get on hobbyhorse - садиться на своего конька) again. Teenagersthe
problem all over the world these days. You ought to know that.
LISTEN, ANSWER AND TRANSLATE
the bicyclefound? – Yes, it.
When it found? – This morning.
the thief caught? – Yes, he.
When he caught? – He caught as he leaving the Millers’ garden.
Where he taken? – To the police station.
Whothe thief? – A young boy of about 13.
Whathe say about TAKING the bicycle? – He says he
n’t want to steal it.
Whyhe take it? – He just wanted to ride.
Mrs Miller seen the boy’s mother? – Yes, she.
Whatshe say? – She says she quite understands her feelings.
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91. THE HOTEL
Sergei: Good morning!
Hotel booking: Good morning sir!
Sergei: I’d like to book a single room.
Hotel booking: For tonight?
Sergei: No, for next Sunday.
Hotel booking: Let me see… Yes, we still have one single room
vacant on Sunday. A very nice room with a bath on the second floor.
Sergei: How muchyou charge for a single room with a bath?
Hotel booking: 45 pounds a night.
Sergei: breakfast included?
Hotel booking: Yes, bed and breakfast.
Sergei: A..a.a…n’t you got any cheaper rooms?
Hotel booking: Yes, wehave a few rooms without a bath but I’m afraid there
no vacant rooms on Sunday. Theyalways
booked up at weekends.
Sergei: you expect any cancellations?
Hotel booking: Well, nothing’s cancelled so far. I can’t promise you anything.
Sergei: Oh well, I think I’ll have to take that room on the second
floor. But itrather more than I expected.
Hotel booking: What name shall I write then?
Sergei: Actually In’t want a room for myself. I asked to arrange the reservation by my professor. The nameDr Richard Spitgate. He
coming from Denver, USA.
Hotel booking: Dr Richard Spitgate, a single room with a bath, for Sunday night. Very well, sir. How long 
Dr Richard Spitgate
staying with us?
Sergei: I’d like to book the room until Tuesday morning.
Hotel booking: Till Tuesday morning? Very well, thank you, sir.
Sergei: Thank you! Good bye!
Hotel booking: Good bye, sir!
LISTEN, ANSWER AND TRANSLATE
How muchyou charge for a single room with a bath? - 45
pounds a night.
n’t you got any cheaper rooms? – Wen’t have any vacant on Sunday. Wealways booked up at weekend. And nothing’s cancelled so far.
I asked to make a BOOKING for Dr Richard Spitgate.
He coming from Denver, USA.
He’ll staying in London until Tuesday.
