Unit 44: I hope you enjoy your holiday

1. I'm sure you all enjoy it very much.

(It's at a meeting in a club. Mr. and Mrs. Sellers are giving lectures with 534pictures about their holiday in Spain last year.)

ChairWoman	And now, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. and Mrs. Sellers are going to give us a talk— with pictures—about ...
Mrs. Sellers	534 pictures.
ChairWoman	Sorry?
Mrs. Sellers	With 534 pictures of our holiday.
ChairWoman	Good heavens! With, er, 534 pictures, about their holiday in Spain last year. Mr. and Mrs. Sellers.
Mr. Sellers	Thank you, and good evening. This is the story of a holiday in Spain, which my dear wife and I had last year. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did. Lights, please. Thank you. Ah! This is the beginning of our holiday, at our local airport — Gatwick. That's the bookings desk. The Departures Board. And the Arrivals Board. And this is my dear wife at the check-in counter. She is — er — checking in. This is the security control at the airport. They're checking hand luggage. Here the man is checking my wife's passport. And here is my dear wife in the departure lounge. This is my dear wife going into the duty-free shop at Gatwick Airport. And this is — you know who — going through the departure gate. We went through the departure gate at 17:24—that is 24 minutes past five—p.m., of course. And this is our plane. I'm sure you'll be interested to know that there are four flights a day from Gatwick to Madrid. The flight takes one and a half hours, and the return fare is £120. And here is my dear wife at Passport Control. This is where we found our suitcase again. This is the red channel, Goods to Declare, but here is my dear wife going into the green channel, Nothing to Declare. Home we go. Lights, please. And that, ladies and Gentlemen, was our holiday in Spain.
ChairWoman	Thank heavens—I mean, thank you, Mr. Sellers! I'm sure we all ... enjoyed that very much. Didn't we, Mrs. Smith? Mrs. Smith!

2. She will be glad to have a friend on the plane.

(At the travel agent's, Mrs. Clark, the Chairwoman of the club, is booking her holiday.)

Mrs. Clark	So I leave from Gatwick airport, and go to Madrid, then take a connecting flight.
Mr. Brent	That's right, madam. There are four connecting flights every day.
Mrs. Clark	Good. Thank you very much.
Mr. Brent	I hope you enjoy your holiday, madam.
Mrs. Clark	Thank you. Goodbye.
Mr. Sellers	Why, it's Mrs. Clark!
Mrs. Clark	Oh, hello.
Mr. Sellers	Remember us? We came to your club to give a talk.
Mrs. Clark	Yes, I remember.
Mr. Sellers	Have you come here to book your holiday?
Mrs. Clark	Yes.
Mr. Sellers	My dear wife and I are going to book ours, too. We're going to Majorca. To Palma.
Mrs. Clark	When?
Mr. Sellers	The last week in July, first week in August.
Mrs. Clark	But I'm going to Palma then!
Mr. Sellers	Oh, really? How nice! My dear wife and I will be very glad to have someone to talk to. Won't we, dear?
Mrs. Clark	Excuse me. I say!
Mr. Brent	Yes Madam?
Mrs. Clark	I'm sorry, I can't go to Palma after all.
Mr. Sellers	We can meet at the airport, Mrs. Clark. My dear wife will be glad to have a friend on the plane.
Mrs. Clark	I don't want to fly. I'll go by boat instead.
Mr. Brent	To Spain, madam?
Mrs. Clark	No. To — er — France.
Mr. Sellers	I'll have my camera with me, of course.
Mr. Brent	Well, there are boats to France every hour, madam, from Dover and Folkestone. It only takes an hour and a half to get to Boulogne or Calais. I'll give you a list of the departure and arrival times and tell you about fares. Then we can make your reservation.
Mr. Sellers	And afterwards we can go along to your club again and show the pictures.

3. I was reading a book last night.

(At the travel agent's.)

Mr. Sellers	Thank you. Very nice. Thank you, Mr. — er ... ?
Mr. Brent	Brent.
Mr. Sellers	Brent. Well, well. I was reading a book last night—The Red Arrow. There's a man called Brent in that. He's an inventor who can make petrol from beer. Very clever. Some men want to steal his formula, you see. They've got this girl, Ann, and they say to Brent, "Give us the formula or the girl dies." I forget what happens next.
Mr. Brent	What happens next, sir, is this ...