A2 · Hotels
Booking a Room by Phone
- CEFR level:
- A2
- Sentences:
- 10
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Emma & Tom
"Booking a Room by Phone" is an A2-level English conversation about hotels, 10 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
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- Line 1Emma 0:00
Hello, I'd like to book a room for next Friday night.
- Line 2Tom 0:03
Certainly. Is it for one guest or two guests?
- Line 3Emma 0:07
Two guests, and we prefer one large bed.
- Line 4Tom 0:11
We have a standard double and a deluxe double available.
- Line 5Emma 0:14
What is the price difference between those two options?
- Line 6Tom 0:18
Deluxe is fifteen dollars more and includes late checkout.
- Line 7Emma 0:22
That sounds useful. Please reserve the deluxe room.
- Line 8Tom 0:26
Of course. May I have your full name and phone number?
- Line 9Emma 0:30
My name is Emma Chen, and my number is 555-1942.
- Line 10Tom 0:36
Thank you. Your booking is confirmed by text message.
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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.
- guests /ɡɛsts/ noun
people invited to visit or stay
- standard /ˈstændərd/ noun; adjective
a usual level or rule; normal or accepted
- double /ˈdʌbəl/ adjective
twice as much or consisting of two parts
- price /praɪs/ noun
the amount of money needed to buy something
- difference /ˈdɪfərəns/ noun
a way in which things are not the same
- options /ˈɑpʃənz/ noun
things that can be chosen.
- includes /ɪnˈkludz/ verb form
has as part of a whole
- late /leɪt/ adjective
after the expected or usual time
- useful /ˈjusfəl/ adjective
helpful or practical
- full /fʊl/ adjective
containing as much as possible; having no space left
- booking /ˈbʊkɪŋ/ noun
an act of reserving something like a room or ticket
- confirmed /kənˈfɝmd/ verb
past tense of confirm; verified or made definite