1Good morning. Can I help you?
2Yes. I've just been accepted on a course at the university
3and I'd like to try and arrange accommodation in the hall of residence.
4Yes, certainly.
5Please sit down.
6What I'll do is fill in a form with you to find out a little more about your preferences and so forth.
7Thank you.
8So, first of all, can I take your name?
9It's Anu Bhatt.
10Could you spell your name please?
11Yes.
12ANU... BHATT.
13Thanks, and could I ask your date of birth?
14The 31st of March, 1972.
15Thank you.
16And where are you from?
17India.
18Oh right.
19And um... what will you be studying?
20I'm doing a course in nursing.
21Right, thank you.
22And how long would you want to stay in hall, do you think?
23Well, it'll take three years
24but I'd only like to stay in hall for two.
25I'd like to think about living outside for the third year.
26Fine.
27And what did you have in mind for catering?
28Do you want to cook for yourself or have all your meals provided, that's full board?
29Is there something in between?
30Yes. You can just have evening meal provided, which is half board.
31That's what I'd prefer.
32Yes, a lot of students opt for that.
33Now, with that in mind, do you have any special diet, anything we should know about?
34Yes, I don't take red meat.
35No red meat.
36Now, thinking about the room itself, we have a number of options.
37You can have a single study bedroom or you can have a shared one.
38These are both what we call simple rooms.
39The other alternative is to opt for a single bedsit
40which actually has more space and better facilities.
41There's about £20 a week difference between them.
42Well, actually my grant is quite generous and I think the bedsit sounds the best option.
43Lovely.
44I'll put you down for that and we'll see what availability is like.
45Now can I ask some other personal details which we like to have on record?
46Yes, of course.
47I wonder if you could let us know what your interests are.
48This might help us get a closer match for placing you in a particular hall.
49Well. I love the theatre.
50Right.
51And I enjoy sports, particularly badminton.
52Ah, that's worth knowing.
53Now, what we finish with on the form is really a list from you of what your priorities are in choosing a hall
54and we'll do our best to take these into account.
55Well, the first thing is I'd prefer a hall where there are other mature students, if possible.
56Yes, we do have halls which tend to cater for slightly older students.
57Ummm and I'd prefer to be out of town.
58That's actually very good for you because we tend to have more vacancies in out-of-town halls.
59Lucky!
60Yes.
61Anything else?
62Well, I would like somewhere with a shared area, a TV room for example, or something like that.
63It's a good way to socialise.
64Certainly is.
65That's it.
66Now, we just need a contact telephone number for you.
67Sure, I'll just find it.
68It's 667549.
69Great, so we'll be in contact with you as soon as possible...