Seeing an Old Friend
- CEFR level:
- A1
- Sentences:
- 8
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Tom & Emma
"Seeing an Old Friend" is an A1-level English conversation about greetings and goodbyes, 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
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 1Tom 0:00
Emma! Wow, long time no see!
- Line 2Emma 0:03
Tom! It's so great to see you again.
- Line 3Tom 0:06
How have you been these past few years?
- Line 4Emma 0:08
Pretty good, just busy with work and life. How about you?
- Line 5Tom 0:13
Same here! I just moved back to the city last month.
- Line 6Emma 0:17
That's wonderful! Are you still doing photography?
- Line 7Tom 0:21
Yes, I am. Let's grab some coffee and catch up soon.
- Line 8Emma 0:25
I'd love to! I'll text you this weekend.
Native audio, line-by-line recording and pronunciation scoring for this dialogue are in the EngTalk app.
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.
- time /taɪm/ noun
what clocks measure; a point or period
- years /jɪrz/ noun
plural of year; periods of twelve months
- busy /ˈbɪzi/ adjective
having a lot to do; full of activity
- work /wɝk/ noun
a job, task, or effort
- life /laɪf/ noun
the state of being alive or the way someone lives
- same /seɪm/ adjective
not different; identical
- moved /muvd/ verb
changed position or residence
- last /læst/ adjective
coming after all others; most recent
- month /mʌnθ/ noun
one of twelve parts of a year
- still /stɪl/ adverb
continuing up to now
- doing /ˈduɪŋ/ verb (present participle)
performing an action or task
- text /tɛkst/ noun
written or printed words