Conversation-01. CarpentryMaggie: (calls out loudly): Jim, what are you doing in there? You're making a terrible noise.
Jim: I'm mending the larder shelf. You asked me to do it this morning. You know it's always falling down.
Maggie: Can't you leave it till later? I'm trying to listen to the radio.
Jim: I won't be a moment now. I'm just hammering in the last nail. Are you listening to the Elgar concert?
Maggie: No, that's later. It's ”Viewpoint” now. Carol Reed is talking about the Polish Cinema (telephone rings). Hallo, Maggie Brown speaking. Oh, hallo Jane! Can you speak a little louder? Jim is hammering away in the larder and I can't hear you (short pause). I'm glad you rang, Jane. Are you doing anything this evening? Good. Then come and keep me company.
Jim: Who are you talking to, Maggie?
Maggie: It's Jane. She's coming round this evening. Yes, I'll be alone. Jim is going to his evening class tonight. He's taking a course in carpentry. He's always taking bits of furniture to pieces nowadays, and trying to put them together again. Well, see you at seven then. 'Bye, Jane.
Jim: There, that's the shelf seen to. You see, this carpentry course is proving very useful after all, I say, Maggie, are we having supper soon? I must leave about seven.
Conversation-02. Jane and Maggie have a chatMaggie: Come in, Jane, we're just finishing supper. You'll have a cup of coffee, won't you?
Jane: Thanks, Maggie.
Jim: Well, I must be leaving now, or I'll be late for my class. Good- bye, Jane. Sorry I can't stay and talk to you.
Jane: Good-bye, Jim.
Maggie: Come and sit down by the fire, Jane, and tell me all about your new job. It's with a travel agency, isn't it?
Jane: Yes, I do our Austrian correspondence.
Maggie: Is your German still good enough or do you write your letters in English?
Jane: I can just about manage with my German, and I'm learning Russian, you know.