1Good morning, how can I help you?
2Good morning.
3I understand you help fix up students with host families.
4That's right...
5are you interested in...?
6Well please sit down and I'll just take a few details.
7Thank you.
8Right, now... what name is it?
9Jenny Chan.
10Can you spell that please?
11Yes...
12JENNY
13CHAN.
14Right... and what is your present address?
15Sea View Guest House, 14 Hill Road.
16Okay, and do you know the phone number there?
17Yes... I have it here...
182237676
19but I'm only there after about 7 pm.
20So when would be the best time to catch you?
21I suppose between 9 and, let me see, half-past, before I leave for the college.
22Great... and can I ask you your age?
23I've just had my nineteenth birthday.
24And how long would you want to stay with the host family?
25I'm planning on staying a year
26but at the moment I'm definitely here for four months only.
27I have to get an extension to my permit.
28You're working on it?
29Fine...
30and what will be your occupation while you're in the UK?
31Studying English?
32And what would you say your level of English is?
33Good, I think.
34I'd like to say 'advanced' but my written work is below the level of my spoken,
35so I suppose it's intermediate.
36Certainly your spoken English is advanced.
37Anyway, which area do you think you would prefer?
38Well, I'm studying right in the centre
39but I'd really like to live in the north-west.
40That shouldn't be a great problem...
41we usually have lots of families up there...
42And do you have any particular requirements for diet?
43Well, I'm nearly a vegetarian... not quite.
44Shall I say you are? It's probably easier that way.
45That would be best.
46Anything about your actual room?
47I would prefer my own facilities - 'en suite', is that right?
48And also if it's possible, a TV
49and I'd also like the house to have a real garden rather than just a yard,
50somewhere I could sit and be peaceful.
51Is that all?
52Well... I'm really serious about improving my English
53so I'd prefer to be the only guest if that's possible?
54No other guests...
55Yes, you get more practice that way.
56Anyway, obviously all this is partly dependent on how much you're willing to pay.
57What did you have in mind?
58I was thinking in terms of about £60 to £80 a week,
59but I'd go up to a hundred if it was something special.
60Well, I don't think we'd have any problems finding something for you.
61Oh, good.
62And when would you want it for?
63I'd like to move in approximately two weeks.
64Let me see, it's the 10th today...
65so if we go for the Monday it's the 23rd of March.
66Yes.
67Right...
68good, and if I could ask one last question...