Will: | Hello! I'm Will. It's Friday nighttime to have fun! This is the Burning Swanmy favourite pub. I'm just waiting for Li. Oh there she is. My goodness! What is she wearing this time? |
Li: | Hi Will. |
Will: | Hi Li! Nice ... blue overalls! |
Li: | Thank you, these are new overalls, I bought them especially for tonight. |
Will: | Right. Okay. Li, I don't really follow fashion, but in London at least, denim overalls are really just for builders and painters and carpenters. |
Li: | Yes! Right, where do we start, Will? |
Will: | Eh? What? What are you doing? |
Li: | It's definitely very dull in here. |
Will: | Why have you got a can of paint? |
Li: | That wall especially. Shall we? |
Will: | Li? What are you doing? She's finally gone mad. Li! |
Li: | What's the matter? |
Will: | Look, you can't just walk into places and start repainting their walls! Don't! I love that brown colour! |
Li: | Didn't you want it to be red? |
Will: | No! No-one wants it to be red! |
Li: | But you said that tonight we'd paint the town redstarting with this pub! |
Will: | It's an expression! |
Li: | Not again! |
Will: | It means that we'll go out and have a really exciting, crazy time. We'll paint the town redit just means we'll have fun, not actually paint things. Let's listen to some examples. |
| It's my daughter's birthday today. She's gone out with her friends. I expect they'll paint the town red! |
| Go on, come out with me tonight, let's paint the town red! |
- We had a crazy night on Saturday, we painted the town red.
Li:So now, Will, tell me about all this crazy fun we're meant to have. What's your idea of painting the town red?
Will: | Well we drink, we dance, we laugh loudly, we meet people, we stay up all night. |
Li: | Hmm. I'd still rather just paint. Let's just do this one wall. |
Will: | No, Li, stop, stop we'll get arrested. |
Li: | Isn't that colour so much better? |
Will: | No! No! Look, stop it! You'll ruin our night out! |
Li: | It's beautiful! |
Will: | Li! Stop! |