1. Female: Hey, Tom, tomorrow will be a beautiful day. Let’s go to the beach.
Male: Great idea. What do you want to do there?
Female: Of course, I want to go swimming, but I would also like to go to a new café near the beach.
We could go there on our way home from the beach.
Male: Sounds good to me.

Q: When will they go to the café?

2. Female: Welcome to the Belton Hotel. How may I help you?
Male: My name is Mike Anderson. I am going to stay for three nights in a non-smoking room.
Female: May I have your passport number or your email address, please?
Male: My email address is mike@keimei.com.

Q: How does the man check his room?

3. Male: Hello Mary. It’s John. Would you like to go to a movie tomorrow night.
Female: I would love to. As long as it isn’t a horror movie. I hate those.
Male: I usually like watching comedies or love stories but there is a great action movie called
Impossible Mission.
Female: I heard it is a fun movie. Let’s go.

Q: What type of movie will they see tomorrow?

4. Female: I like your new jacket Tim. The blue color matches your eyes. Why did you buy blue?
Male: They had a lot of different colors I liked. They had blue, black, red and green. I chose blue
because it is the same color as my high school soccer team.
Female: It looks really good on you. Where did you buy it?
Male: At the new sports store downtown.

Q: Why did the man buy the blue jacket?

5. Female: Hello John, I just found out about a cooking class happening this weekend on Saturday
afternoon at the culture center.
Male: That’s cool. What type of food will they be making?
Female: It is a Mexican cooking class. We have already had a French and Italian class. They wereboth excellent. In two weeks, we will have a class on how to make Chinese food. I know you love
Tacos so I thought I would ask you.
Male: Sounds like a lot of fun. I would love to join your class.
Q: What type of cooking class will be held this coming Saturday?
Monologues
6.

Female: Ben goes to college in New York City. He got a phone call from his favorite aunt. His aunt
was going to visit New York on a business trip for three days. She called to see if she could meet Ben
and go out to dinner with him. Ben was so happy because he does not see her very often. Ben wanted
to take her to his favorite Italian restaurant near school.
Q: Why was Ben excited?
7. Male: Capybaras are an interesting animal from South America. They are in the mouse family but aremuch bigger. They can be as big as 34 kgs. They have become popular pets because they are cute,friendly, and are safe around children. They are herbivores which means they only eat vegetables.
One important thing for owners of capybaras to know is that they need to swim every day, so theyneed to live near a lake or a river.
Q: Why do capybaras make good pets?
8. Female: Over the summer, Kim went on vacation for 5 days to a lake in Nagano Prefecture with herfamily. The weather was much cooler than in Kobe. They went hiking, swam in the beautiful lake andshe went fishing with her father and younger brother. Unfortunately, she did not catch any fish, buther brother did. She was a little sad that she did not catch any fish, but she had a wonderful time. Shehopes to go back in the future.
Q. What was one reason why Kim was disappointed?
9. Female: Amy is a nurse in Seatle, USA. She enjoys doing many different things in her free time. Oneof the things she likes best is dancing. She became interested in dancing in university and has taken
lessons for 5 years at a dance studio. Next month she will join her first dance contest. She has boughta beautiful long pink dress and has been practicing hard every day after work.
Q. When did Amy become interested in dancing?

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Male: Mr. Smith’s ESS club is getting ready for the school festival. This year the ESS club will makeT-shirts for the school festival. The club is trying to decide on the best color for the T-shirts. So they
took a survey to choose the color. Four students liked yellow best. Five students liked red best.
Seven people like blue best but only one person liked black.

Q: Which graph shows the result of the ESS T-shirt survey?