A1 · Home and Daily Life
Borrowing a Phone Charger
- CEFR level:
- A1
- Sentences:
- 8
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Emma & Tom
"Borrowing a Phone Charger" is an A1-level English conversation about home and daily life, 8 lines long (about 1 minute) between Emma & Tom. Read the full script below with the translation next to each line, then try speaking one of the roles out loud.
Dialogue script
Each entry shows the English sentence first, with the translation on the line below it. To practise speaking, cover the translation and repeat after the audio.
- Line 1Emma 0:00
Can I borrow your phone charger?
- Line 2Tom 0:02
Sure. What kind do you need?
- Line 3Emma 0:04
A Type-C cable, please.
- Line 4Tom 0:07
Here you go. The cable is quite long.
- Line 5Emma 0:10
Thanks! My battery is very low.
- Line 6Tom 0:13
You can plug it in over there.
- Line 7Emma 0:15
Great. I'll give it back in an hour.
- Line 8Tom 0:18
No rush. Keep it as long as you need.
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Key vocabulary
Content words from this dialogue, ranked by the CEFR level at which they appear across the whole 500-dialogue library. Function words and proper nouns are excluded.
- charger /ˈtʃɑrdʒər/ noun
a device used to recharge a battery
- kind /kaɪnd/ adjective
friendly, generous, and considerate
- need /nid/ verb
to require something
- long /lɔŋ/ adjective
having great length or lasting much time
- battery /ˈbætəri/ noun
a device that produces electricity to power things
- low /loʊ/ adjective
not high in position, amount, or level
- great /ɡreɪt/ adjective
very good or important
- give /ɡɪv/ verb
to hand, provide, or offer something
- back /bæk/ noun
the rear surface of the human body; the side opposite the front
- hour /ˈaʊɚ/ noun
a period of sixty minutes
- rush /rʌʃ/ verb
to move or do something very quickly
- keep /kip/ verb
to continue to have, hold, or do something