A1 · Time and Plans
Making Lunch Plans
- CEFR level:
- A1
- Sentences:
- 8
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Tom & Emma
"Making Lunch Plans" is an A1-level English conversation about time and plans, 8 lines long (about 1 minute) between Tom & Emma. Read the full script below with the translation next to each line, then try speaking one of the roles out loud.
Dialogue script
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- Line 1Tom 0:00
Hey Emma, are you free to grab lunch together?
- Line 2Emma 0:03
Yes, I'd love to! What time were you thinking?
- Line 3Tom 0:07
How about twelve-thirty, after our morning call?
- Line 4Emma 0:10
Twelve-thirty works great for me. What are you craving?
- Line 5Tom 0:14
I feel like having noodles or a fresh sandwich.
- Line 6Emma 0:17
There's a cozy café down the street with great sandwiches.
- Line 7Tom 0:21
Perfect, let's meet in the lobby at twelve-thirty.
- Line 8Emma 0:24
See you there! I'm already getting hungry.
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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.
- free /fri/ adjective
costing nothing or not restricted
- lunch /lʌntʃ/ noun
a meal eaten around midday
- together /təˈɡɛðər/ adverb
with each other or in one group
- time /taɪm/ noun
what clocks measure; a point or period
- thinking /ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/ noun
the process of using the mind
- call /kɔl/ verb
to give a telephone ring, or to speak in a loud voice to attract attention
- works /wɝks/ verb
does a job or functions successfully
- great /ɡreɪt/ adjective
very good or important
- feel /ˈfil/ verb
experience an emotion or physical sensation
- like /laɪk/ verb
to enjoy or approve of someone or something
- already /ɔlˈrɛdi/ adverb
before now or before a specific time in the past
- getting /ˈɡɛtɪŋ/ verb
receiving, obtaining, or becoming