A: I heard you received a prize for you book.
B:Yyes, I did. I won a prize for “best local history book at the annual book award.
A: Congratulations! You must be very proud of your achievement.
B: Actually, I was happy just to get the book published. Winning the prize was an added bonus.
A: What was the prize?
B: I won $200 to spend on any books of my choice.
A: That’s a great prize for a person who writes books! Have you ever won a prize before?
B: I shared a prize with some friends last week. We won a bottle of whisky at a pub quiz.
A; I won $10 in the lottery last month. Perhaps next time, I’ll be luckier and win the jackpot!
A: 我听说你出版的书得奖了。
B: 是的。我赢得一个"最佳的本地历史书奖"作为年度图书奖。
A: 恭喜你! 你一定为你的成就感到非常骄傲。
B: 其实我只是为这本书的出版而高兴。得奖是一个额外的收获。
A: 是什么奖?
B: 我赢得200美元的购书券。
A: 那是给写书的个人的一项大奖!以前你获过奖吗?
B: 我上周与朋友们分享奖励。我们在一次酒店游戏赢得一瓶威士忌酒。
A: 我上个月买彩票中了10美元。也许下一次吧，我会幸运赢得头奖。
Intermediate
A: Have you bought a present for Jim’s birthday yet?
B: No, I haven’t. I can’t think of anything to get him.
A: I’m having the same problem. I want to get something really special. Jim always seems to knowexactly what to get people as gifts.
B: I know. He bought me that beautiful sweater for my birthday. It was exactly what I wanted.And it fit me perfectly!
A: He bought me an iron.
B: That doesn’t sound like a great present.
A: Maybe not, but my iron was getting old. In fact, it stopped working the week after jim boughtme the new one. It’s as if he knew that my old iron would soon stop working!
B: Let’s think. He loves football, doesn’t he? I saw signed photographs of famous footballers in ashop near here. Let’s go and have a look. You know which team he supports, don’t you?
A: Yes, I do. Let’s go. We should be able to find something suitable. We should get him somethingold…something historic.
B: It’ll be an expensive present, but we can share the cost.
A: I’ll be happy to get him something special, even if it costs a little extra.
B: Yes. He always get us special gift. We should repay his kindness.
A: 你为吉姆的生日买一份礼物了吗?
B: 还没有。我想不出该给他什么。
A: 我有同样的问题。我想买真正特别的东西。吉姆似乎总是确切地知道该买什么给人作为礼品。
B: 我知道。他为我的生日买了那件美丽的毛线衫。这正是我想要的。我穿着它很合身!
A: 他为我买一个熨斗。
B: 那听起来不象是份好礼物。
A: 或许不是，但是我的熨斗旧了。实际上，在吉姆为我买新熨斗的这一周，我的旧熨斗坏了。这好象他知道我的旧熨斗不久会坏似的。
B: 我们觉得他喜欢足球，是不是?我在附近一家商店看到著名的足球运动员签名的照片。我们去看一看。你知道他支持哪个队，是吗?
A: 是的。走吧。我们能发现某些事情合适。我们应该为他买古典的…有历史意义的东西。
B: 那将是一份昂贵的礼物，但是我们可以分担费用。
A: 我将很高兴买到特别的东西，即使它要额外多花点钱。
B: 是的，他总是给我们买特别的礼物。我们应该报答他的好意。