====== English Teaching Theatre - Unit 08 - The Post Office ======

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A post office in Britain The post office clerk A customer\\

**Clerk **Good morning.\\

**//The 
customer does not react.\\
//
Clerk **Good morning!\\

**//The 
customer still does not react.\\
//
Clerk **Can I help you?\\
**
Customer **Pardon?\\
**
Clerk **Can I help you?\\
**
Customer **I can't hear you!\\
**
Clerk **Can I help you?!\\
**
Customer **I can’t hear you. You're too far away.\\
**
Clerk **Well, come over here.\\
**
Customer **Pardon?\\
**
Clerk **Come over here!!-\\
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Customer **Come over there?\\
**
Clerk **Yes!!!\\
**
Customer **I can’t. I've got to wait here.\\
**
Clerk **No, you haven’t.\\
**
Customer **Yes, I have. This sign says ‘Wait here'.\\
**
Clerk **Yes, but you’re the only customer. So you can come over here! \\
**
Customer **Oh. Right.\\

**//The 
customer goes to the counter.\\
//
Clerk **Now...can I help you?\\
**
Customer **Can I send a parcel to Australia?\\
**
Clerk **Yes, you can.\\
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Customer **Good. I want to send this to my daughter.\\
**//The customer produces a large parcel from her bag. 
The parcel is shaped like a fish.\\
//
Clerk **What's this? //**(Reading the label on the parcel**//) 
‘Contents: One coffee-pot.' A coffee-pot?\\
**
Customer **Yes.\\
**
Clerk **It doesn’t //look// like a 
coffee-pot.\\
**
Customer **Doesn't it?\\
**
Clerk **No.\\
**//The clerk bangs the parcel on the counter.\\
//
Customer **Be careful!\\
**
Clerk **And it doesn’t //sound// 
like a coffee-pot. And... //**(Sniffing the parcel**//) ...it doesn’t
//smell //like a coffee-pot. It smells 
like a fish.\\
**
Customer **All right, all right, it’s a fish.\\
**
Clerk **Well, I’ m sorry, you can’t send a fish by post.\\
**
Customer **Why not?\\
**
Clerk **Look. It’s in the book: ‘No food by post.’\\
**
Customer //(Reading from the book//**) ‘No food by post.’ Food?! This 
isn't food! This is Napoleon! \\
**Clerk **Napoleon?\\
**
Customer **Yes, Napoleon. He's my daughter’s fish. And my daughter lives in 
Australia. That’s why I want to send him to Australia.\\
**
Clerk **Well, you can’t send him by post.\\
**
Customer **Please!\\
**
Clerk **No.\\
**
Customer **Please!!\\
**
Clerk **Oh, all right. But there's no name on the parcel.\\
**
Customer **Oh, sorry. **//(She starts writing)// **'Nap-o-le-'\\
**
Clerk **Not the name of the //fish.// 
Your //daughter’s// name. What is your 
daughter's name? \\
**Customer **Josephine.\\
**
Clerk **Josephine. And what is her second name?\\
**
Customer **Elisabeth.\\
**
Clerk **No - when I said ‘her //second// 
name’, I meant her //family// name. 
What is her //family// name? \\
**
Customer **It’s the same as mine.\\
**
Clerk **Yes. But what is it?\\
**
Customer **Wellington.\\
**
Clerk **Wellington.\\
**
Customer **Yes.\\
**
Clerk **So...your daughter's name is Josephine Elisabeth Wellington.\\
**
Customer **Yes.\\
**
Clerk **Address?\\
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Customer **Pardon?\\
**
Clerk **Address. Where does she live in Australia?\\
**
Customer **Er...\\
**
Clerk **Sydney?\\
**
Customer **No.\\
**
Clerk **Melbourne?\\
**
Customer **No.\\
**
Clerk **Adelaide?\\
**
Customer **Adelaide!\\
**
Clerk **Adelaide.\\
**
Customer **No. Ah, I remember - Vienna!\\
**
Clerk **Vienna?\\
**
Customer **Vienna.\\
**
Clerk **Vi enna's in //Austria.\\
//**
Customer **That’s what I said.\\
**
Clerk **No, you didn't. You said "Australia"\\
**
Customer **Did I?\\
**
Clerk **So this is going to Josephine Wellington in Vienna, Austria.\\
**
Customer **Yes. How much is it?\\
**
Clerk **That depends on the weight.\\
**
Customer **Pardon?\\
**
Clerk **Weight.\\
**
Customer **Oh. OK.\\
**The //customer// starts //walking back// to //
the *Wait here* sign.//\\
//
Clerk// **No! I didn't say //**(Indicating the sign**//) ‘//wait'.// 
I said **//(Indicating// the //scales on the counter) //**
//'weight'.\\
//
**//The clerk weighs the parcel.\\
//
Clerk **Two and a half kilos. That’s 17.50 pounds.\\
**
Customer **17.50 pounds?! That’s very expensive.\\
**
Clerk **Well, he //is// going by 
air.\\
**
Customer **By air? Napoleon can't go by air!\\
**
Clerk **Why not?\\
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Customer **He’s a fish, not a bird.\\
**
Clerk **No, he's going on an aeroplane.\\
**
Customer **On an aeroplane?\\
**
Clerk **Yes,\\
**
Customer **How extraordinary! //I'm// 
going on an aeroplane today.\\
**
Clerk **Really?\\
**
Customer **Yes. I'm going to visit my daughter.\\
**
Clerk **Your daughter Josephine?\\
**
Customer **Yes.\\
**
Clerk **In Vienna?\\
**
Customer **Yes.\\
**
Clerk **Well, why don’t you take Napoleon with you?\\
**
Customer **Take Napoleon with me?\\
**
Clerk **Yes. On the aeroplane.\\
**
Customer **Take Napoleon with me on the aeroplane?\\
**
Clerk **Yes! To Vienna!\\
**
Customer **Of course! Take Napoleon with me on the aeroplane to Vienna! \\
**
Clerk **Yes!\\
**
Customer **And then when I get to Vienna...\\
**
Clerk **Yes!!\\
**
Customer **...I can post him from there!\\
//**The customer picks up the parcel and leaves.**//\\

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