A: Morning.
B: Hi there, Mr. Anderson! How are you on this fine morning?
A: Fine, thank you.
B: It sure is cold this morning, isn’t it? I barely even got out of bed!
A: Yeah. It’s pretty cold, alright.
B: Did you catch the news this morning? I heard that there was a fire on Byron Street.
A: No, I didn’t hear about that.
B: Did you happen to watch the football game last night? The Patriots scored in the last minute!
A: No, I don’t like football.
B: Oh… By the way, I saw you with your daughter at the office Christmas party. She is really beautiful!
A: She’s my wife! Oh, here’s my floor! Nice talking to you. Goodbye.
B: Sir, this is the fifty-sixth floor! We are on the seventieth!
A: That’s okay, I’ll take the stairs!
Key Vocabulary
| It sure is | phrase | Affirmation or confirmation of something |
| barely even | General Adverb | hardly, could almost not |
| catch | verb | hear, listen to |
| Did you happen to | phrase | By chance or casualty someone did something |
| By the way | phrase | phrased used to interject another topic in a conversation |
| ake the stairs | phrase | go up the stairs, use the stairs |
Supplementary Vocabulary
| small talk | short, firendly conversation about things that are not important | |
| chat | verb | talk (informal) |
| network | verb | talk with people to form business connections |
| awkward | Adjective | difficult to deal with |
| uncomfortable | Adjective | a feeling of being embarrassed or uneasy |
