Learn English with EnglishClass101.com! You’re meeting a long-lost friend from college for a drink after work. While you’re waiting to order at the bar, your friend asks you in English, “What are you having?” You tell your friend in English, “Oh, the usual.” Your friend inquires further in English, “What’s that?” You tell him in English, “Oh, it’s a perfect Manhattan. Have you tried it?” Your friend replies in English, “No, I’ve never heard of that. What is it?” You explain in English, “It’s a regular Manhattan with equal parts of dry and sweet vermouth. You’ll like it.” When the bartender arrives and asks in English, “What do you want to order,” you tell him in English, “I’ll have the usual, and get my friend the same, please!” He brings you the drinks and says in English, “That’s sixteen dollars, please.” You hand him a twenty-dollar bill and tell him in English, “Keep the change.”
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2 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #10 - Just Tell Him in English that You Want the Usual”
Monday at 6:30 pm
Sunday at 3:04 am
In the dialogue Teddy says “you’ve forgotten, haven’t you?”
I remember when I was about graduating (I had had 6 years of English by then) that my english teacher told me about this structure of having an affirmative sentence and then make it into a question by repeating the verb in the negative form.
have, haven’t you?
is, isn’t it?
etc.
I don’t recall having it heard in one of the lessons yet.
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