UNIT 1 - ADVANCED LEVEL 
This can't be the house

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Barbara and Harry Sallis are trying to buy a house. Here they are looking at the house for which they have paid a deposit. The mood is SURPRISE.


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The house has been empty all these years, and now it's being sold.
Who on earth would want to buy an extraordinary place like this?
To a couple called -let me think- Sallis, I believe.
Sallis??
Sallis??
But ... but that's us!!
You?
You must've got the wrong name.
This isn't the house we're buying. Harry, we've come to the wrong place.
We're buying a Georgian house, in Butterfield Lane, near Mamesby.
This is Butterfield Lane, near Mamesby.
Oh!! The house agents must've made a mistake, dear.
Surely not!!
I wouldn't have thought so, but they must have.
Well, I never!!

GLOSSARY
couple
: two; husband and wife 
Georgian
: from the time of the first four Georges, Kings of England (eighteenth century)
house agent
: person who buys and sells houses for others
Well, I never
: Don't worry; Don't trouble about it.

 

ACTIVITY

TRY TO ANWER THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PART OF THE DIALOGUE AND CHECK HERE YOUR ANSWERS. 

8.

 Is the pirate's house a Georgian house?

 

9.

 Why does the caretaker laugh?

 

 
 

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