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ms.shelektrThe Worst Nurse
Sir Herbert: Nurse!
Colonel Burton: Nurse! I'm thirsty!
Sir Herbert: Nurse! My head hurts!
Colonel Burton: NURSE!!
Sir Herbert: Curse these nurses!
Colonel Burton: Nurse Sherman always wears such dirty shirts.
Sir Herbert: And such short skirts.
Colonel Burton: She never arrives at work early.
Sir Herbert: She and... er... Nurse Turner weren't at work on Thursday, were they?
Colonel Burton: No, they weren't.
Sir Herbert: Nurse Sherman is the worst nurse in the ward, isn't she?
Colonel Burton: No, she isn't. She's the worst nurse in the world!
Dialogue 2
An Interesting Film
Вill: Is Tim in?
Lyn: Is he coming to the pictures?
Mrs Smith: Tim's ill.
Bill: Here he is! Hello, Tim.
Tim: Hello, Bill.
Lyn: Are you ill, Tim?
T i m: Is it an interesting film?
Lyn: It's "Big Jim and the Indians".
Bill: And it begins in six minutes.
Mrs S m i t h: If you're ill, Tim...
T i m: Quick! Or we'll miss the beginning of the film!
Dialogue 3
A Pair of Hairbrushes
Mary: I've lost two small hairbrushes, Claire. They're a pair.
Claire: Have you looked carefully everywhere?
Mary: Yes. They're nowhere here.
Claire: Have you looked upstairs?
Mary: Yes. I've looked everywhere upstairs and downstairs. They aren't anywhere.
Claire: Hh! Are they square, Mary?
Mary: Yes. They're square hairbrushes. Have you seen them anywhere?
Claire: Well, you're wearing one of them in your hair!
Mary: Oh! Then where's the other one?
Claire: It's over there under the chair.
Dialogue 4
A Painting of a Boy
J a y: Do you like painting?
Joy: Yes. I'm trying to paint a boy lying beside a lake. Do you like it?
Jay: Hm ... Why don't you buy some oil paints?
J о у: I don't enjoy painting with oils.
Jay: Your painting is quite nice, but why are you painting the boy's face grey?
Joy: {pointing) It isn't grey. It's white.
Dialogue 5
Waiting for Templetons
Tessa: What time did you tell Templetons to get here, Martin?
Martin: Any time between 10 and 12.
Tessa: But it's after two! They're terribly late!
Martin: Why didn't you contact United Transport as I told you?
Tessa: Peter Thompson said that Templetons were better.
Martin: Tessa! Peter Thompson's a director of Templetons. Oh! blast it! I've torn my trousers on the radiator.
Tessa: Oh Martin, do take care! ... Hadn't we better telephone?
Martin: I've tried. The telephone's not connected yet.
Tessa: And the water's still cut off. We can't just wait here all afternoon in an empty flat
with no water and no telephone.
Martin: How uninviting an empty flat is.
Tessa: And it seems tiny, too, now, doesn't it?
Martin: I'm tempted to take a taxi straight into town and stay the night in a hotel.
Tessa: How extravagant! But what a delightful thought!
Dialogue 6
Life Is a Question of Choice or Chance?
— If you could recapture your childhood, Richard, would you change much?
— Life is a sort of arch. Arrival to departure. You can't switch directions, Charles. Each century brings changes but actually, nature doesn't change.
— But you can reach different decisions. With television, you can choose which channel to watch, switch to another picture. You could catch a different train. Given a chance, Richard, would you change trains?
— Life is a rich adventure and largely a question of chance. You don't choose your future as you choose a chocolate or a piece of cheese.
— But, Richard, you do choose. You forget your own fortune — a butcher? a cellist? a teacher? a merchant? Each choice suggests a further choice — which tree, which branch, which twig?
— Let's adjourn to the kitchen for chicken and chips. No choice for lunch, you see Charles.
— But you actually chose chicken and chips! Chops would have been much cheaper.