Redistributing Time After Exam Season
- CEFR level:
- B1
- Sentences:
- 12
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Tom & Emma
"Redistributing Time After Exam Season" is a B1-level English conversation about life updates and changes, 12 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
Exams finally ended, but now my evenings are strangely empty.
- Line 2Emma 0:04
Do you want rest first, or jump into postponed plans?
- Line 3Tom 0:08
During finals, I ignored friends, workouts, and even simple cooking.
- Line 4Emma 0:13
Then rebuild gradually, because doing everything at once may fail.
- Line 5Tom 0:19
I told people I'm fully free, and now three groups expect me.
- Line 6Emma 0:23
They heard "free" as "always available"; you can reset that.
- Line 7Tom 0:28
First plan: two social nights and one gym night each week.
- Line 8Emma 0:33
Alternative plan: keep one night unplanned for recovery or overtime.
- Line 9Tom 0:38
Let's lock Monday gym, Thursday friends, and leave Saturday flexible.
- Line 10Emma 0:44
I'll share that schedule so others stop sending random invites.
- Line 11Tom 0:48
If my workload spikes again, I'll pause events before skipping sleep.
- Line 12Emma 0:52
Perfect, message me next Friday and we'll fine-tune the balance.
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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.
- evenings /ˈivnɪŋz/ plural noun
the later parts of days
- ignored /ɪɡˈnɔrd/ verb form
paid no attention to
- workouts /ˈwɝkˌaʊts/ noun plural
periods of physical exercise
- even /ˈivən/ adverb
used to emphasize something surprising
- rebuild /ˌriˈbɪld/ verb
to build again
- gradually /ˈɡrædʒuəli/ adverb
slowly over a period of time
- fail /ˈfeɪl/ verb
not succeed or not meet a standard
- told /toʊld/ verb
said or gave information to someone
- expect /ɪkˈspɛkt/ verb
believe something will happen
- alternative /ɔlˈtɜrnətɪv/ noun
one of two or more available possibilities
- workload /ˈwɝkˌloʊd/ noun
the amount of work someone has to do
- events /ɪˈvɛnts/ plural noun
organized occasions or occurrences