BASIC SENTENCES
ThE&Em |
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hotel |
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1. Say, there's a lot of people at this hotel. |
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room |
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to be vacant (or free) |
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2. Do you think they'll have any rooms? |
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to know |
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3. I don't know. |
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to ask (or inquire) |
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table (or desk) |
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word of command |
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4. Let's go ask at the desk. |
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ThE&Em (to the clerk) |
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5. Do you have any rooms? |
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Clerk |
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| 6. Yes. |
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| for |
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to be single (or sole) |
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| 7. Do you want a single room or a double [room]? ('Do you want a room for a single person or for two people?') |
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ThE&Em |
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8. Double. ('For two people.') |
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bathroom |
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| 9. And we want a room with bath. ('And we want to get a room which has a bathroom also.') |
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Clerk |
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| 10. O.K. |
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| to eat (formal term) |
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| 11. Do you want to take your meals here too? ('Do you want to eat here also?') |
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| to eat |
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| 12. I don't think so. ('It seems [we] won't eat [here].') |
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| to wonder (or roam) |
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| to go around |
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| to be different (or
various) |
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| 13. We want to go around
to different places. |
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Clerk |
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14. If you don't take your meals here the price is five bahts a day. |
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| to rest (or to stay) |
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| all (or all of) |
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| week |
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| to be special (or extra) |
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| 15. But if you stay here
all week we'll figure a special price for [you]. |
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ThE&Em |
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16.
We'll only stay two or three days. |
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Clerk |
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| before |
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| first (before doing something else) |
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| 17. Would you like to go
look at the room first? |
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ThE&Em |
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| 18. Yes. |
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Clerk |
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boy (only in the sense
of servant in a public place) |
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to take (or accompany) |
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he or she or they |
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both |
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19. Boy, take these
two gentlemen to Room 218. |
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key (or padlock) |
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20. Here's the key. |
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| Boy | |||
| 21. This way, gentlemen. |
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| floor (of building; or class) |
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| second (in order) |
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| 22. It's [on] the second
floor. (Showing them the room.) |
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| to be big (or large) |
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| 23. The room's large and comfortable. |
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| door (or gate) |
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| classifier for doors and windows |
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| window |
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| 24. There's only one ('a single') door but there're several windows. |
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| bed and classifier for beds |
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| 25. There're two beds. |
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| 26. The bathroom's over there. |
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| to open (or to be open) |
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| 27. I'll go open the door for [you]. |
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| to take |
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| 28. Shall [we] take it, Tha$t? |
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| Tha$t | |||
| 29. Yes. |
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| Boy | |||
| chair |
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| classifier for chairs and tables |
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| 30. It has quite a few chairs and tables, too. |
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| to descend (or down) |
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| to agree (to do something) |
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| 31. Fine, we'll stay. ('We agree to stay here.') |
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| night |
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| tonight |
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| to go to bed |
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| about or around |
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| because (or because of) |
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| to wake up (by oneself) |
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| to be early (or morning) |
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| tomorrow |
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| 32. We'll go to bed around ten o'clock tonight, because we want to wake up early tomorrow. |
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| Boy | |||
| to wake up (someone else) |
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| 33. When would you like to have [us] call [you] ('wake [you] up')? |
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| 34. Around seven.
('Around seven in the morning.') |
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| Boy | |||
| 35. O.K. |
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| down below (or downstairs) |
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| 36. [Please] go down [and] make arragements ('agree') at the desk. |
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| to close (or to be closed) |
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| 37. I'll close the door for [you]. |
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