B1 · Travel Planning and Budgets
Booking in Peak Season: Lock In a Rate or Wait
- CEFR level:
- B1
- Sentences:
- 12
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Emma & Tom
"Booking in Peak Season: Lock In a Rate or Wait" is a B1-level English conversation about travel planning and budgets, 12 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
Peak-season hotels are rising daily, and I'm unsure when to book.
- Line 2Tom 0:04
Do current rates include free cancellation, or are they strict?
- Line 3Emma 0:08
Some are cancellable, but promo-only rooms are non-refundable.
- Line 4Tom 0:13
Then price risk and flexibility risk must be weighed together.
- Line 5Emma 0:17
Last year I waited for discounts and ended up paying more.
- Line 6Tom 0:21
That experience suggests partial locking could reduce regret.
- Line 7Emma 0:25
I'll lock two cancellable nights now at acceptable rates.
- Line 8Tom 0:29
Then monitor promotions for remaining nights every two days.
- Line 9Emma 0:33
If better rates appear, I'll rebook and cancel old reservations.
- Line 10Tom 0:38
Keep cancellation deadlines in one spreadsheet to avoid mistakes.
- Line 11Emma 0:42
If inventory drops fast, we stop waiting and lock everything.
- Line 12Tom 0:47
I agree. Flexible plans beat guessing when promos keep changing.
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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.
- current /ˈkɜrənt/ adjective
belonging to the present time
- risk /rɪsk/ noun/verb
a chance of harm; to take a chance
- year /jɪr/ noun
a period of twelve months
- paying /ˈpeɪɪŋ/ verb
giving money for something
- experience /ɪkˈspɪriəns/ noun or verb
knowledge gained by doing or an event lived through
- suggests /səɡˈdʒɛsts/ verb
offers an idea or indicates a possibility
- partial /ˈpɑrʃəl/ adjective
not complete; favoring one side
- regret /rɪˈɡrɛt/ verb
to feel sorry about something
- deadlines /ˈdɛdˌlaɪnz/ noun
plural of deadline; final due times
- agree /əˈɡri/ verb
to have the same opinion or consent to something
- guessing /ˈɡɛsɪŋ/ verb
giving an answer without being certain
- changing /ˈtʃeɪndʒɪŋ/ verb
present participle of change; becoming different