1. Reading
Task 1. Read the dialogue and answer the questions:
1. What this talk is about?
2. How many people in a talk?
3. What preferences does a caller request?
Travel Agent Freedom Travel. How may I help you?
Caller. Yes, I'd like to make a flight reservation for the twenty-third of this month.
Travel Agent: Okay. What is your destination?
Caller: Well. I'm flying to Helsinki, Finland.
Travel Agent Okay. Let me check what flights are available? [Okay] And when will you be
returning?
Caller: Uh well. I'd like to catch a retum flight on the twenty-ninth. Oh, and I'd like the
cheapest flight available.
Travel Agent: Okay. Let me see. Um, hmm ...
Caller: Yeah?
Travel Agent Well, the price for the flight is almost double the price you would pay if you
leave the day before.
Caller: Whoo. Let's go with the cheaper flight. By the way, how much is it?
Travel Agent: It's only 5980.
Caller: Alright. Well, let's go with that.
Travel Agent: Okay. That's flight 1070 from Salt Lake City to New York Kennedy
Airport, transferring to flight 90 from Kennedy to Helsinki.
Caller. And what are the departure and arrival times for each of those flights?
Travel Agent: It leaves Salt Lake City at 10:00 AM, arriving in New York at 4:35 PM, then
transferring to flight 90 at 5:55 PM, and arriving in Helsinki at 8:30 AM the next day.
Caller. Alright. And, uh, I'd like to request a vegetarian meal.
Travel Agent: Sure, no problem. And could I have you name please?​