A1 · Home and Daily Life
Welcoming a Guest
- CEFR level:
- A1
- Sentences:
- 8
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Tom & Emma
"Welcoming a Guest" is an A1-level English conversation about home and daily life, 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
Welcome to my apartment, Emma! Please come on in.
- Line 2Emma 0:03
Thanks for having me, Tom! Your place is so lovely.
- Line 3Tom 0:07
Thank you! You can leave your coat and shoes right here.
- Line 4Emma 0:11
Here are some house slippers, right? Thank you.
- Line 5Tom 0:14
Make yourself at home! Please take a seat on the sofa.
- Line 6Emma 0:18
Thanks! The living room is so bright and cozy.
- Line 7Tom 0:22
Can I get you something to drink? Tea or fruit juice?
- Line 8Emma 0:26
A cup of green tea would be wonderful, thank you!
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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.
- apartment /əˈpɑrtmənt/ noun
a suite of rooms forming one separate residence, typically in a larger building
- come /kʌm/ verb
to move toward or arrive at a place
- place /pleɪs/ noun
a location or position
- leave /liv/ verb
to go away from a place or person
- coat /koʊt/ noun
an outer piece of clothing worn for warmth
- right /raɪt/ adjective/adverb/noun
correct; on the right side; a legal claim
- make /meɪk/ verb
to create, produce, or cause
- home /hoʊm/ noun
the place where someone lives
- take /teɪk/ verb/noun
to get, carry, use, or require something
- seat /sit/ noun
a place to sit
- living /ˈlɪvɪŋ/ noun
the way someone lives or the act of being alive
- room /rum/ noun
a space inside a building; space available