英语口语高手23

Appointments

Warm of vocabulary:

available sound suit convenient prefer urgent

Functional sentences:

Are you available on the seventeenth?

Are you free on the seventeenth?

Can we meet on the sixteenth?

How does the third sound to you?

Is next Tuesday convenient for you?

What's sort of time will suit you?

If possible, I’d like to meet you in the morning.

I’m sorry. I won't be able to make it on Monday.

Could we meet on Tuesday instead?

Eh, Wednesday is going to be a little difficult.

I'd much prefer Friday. That’s all right with you.

I’m afraid that I’m not going to be able to meet you after all. Can we fix another time?

You know we are going to meet next Friday.

Well, I’m very sorry. But something urgent does come up.

Dialogue:

Man: Good morning, Dr.Smith’s office. May I help you?

Woman: I’d like to make an appointment to have the dentist to look at my teeth.

Man: let’s see. I can arrange for you to see the doctor in two weeks from now.

Woman: Can’t I come in tomorrow?

Man: No, you can’t. What about next Saturday? I think he will be available that day.

Woman: And if possible will this Saturday be ok? It really hurts.

Man: I’m afraid Dr. Smith won’t be able to see you this Saturday. His appointment book is filled for the next couple of days.

Woman: I don’t have to see him. I can just put my teeth in his office, and when he has time he can look at them and tell me the reason.

Man: How, how can you do this?

Woman: They’re false teeth.