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Fifteen or Fifty?

buying concert tickets on an app  ·  numbers and prices you hear

Hye-jin and Thiago are buying two concert tickets on a phone app. Listen with the script hidden and click the answers. Then show the script, read along, and write the missing words.

new words  ·  ★ listen  ·  ★★ listen and read  ·  ★★★ listen and write  ·  now you, in the chat

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For the teacher · In class

Play the scene once with the script hidden and Share sound on. "Number 1: what are they buying? Click it." Play it again. Stop after "Fifteen? That's cheap!" and ask the room: fifteen or fifty? Say both slowly: fifteen has the stress at the end, fifty at the start. Then Show the script and read it in two voices. Number 3 in ★★ is the sum the app shows: 2 x $25.50 + 2 x $4.50 = $60. Number 5 is the vowel lesson: the e in cello is Short E (one vowel, a consonant after it). Any price form is right ($60, 60, sixty dollars). Now you has no key: two orchestra tickets are $109 with the fee, two balcony tickets $60.

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New words

Four new words. Click each one and listen.

  • the seats upstairs, high up
  • the seats downstairs, near the stage
  • extra money the app takes for every ticket
  • all the money together

★ Listen

Listen two times. Do not read. Then click the answer.

On a phone app. Hye-jin and Thiago are buying two concert tickets.

12 lines
  1. 1What are Hye-jin and Thiago buying?
  2. 2Which seats do they buy?
  3. 3Is there a service fee?

★★ Listen and read

Now show the script. Listen and read. Click a line to hear it again. Then type the answers.

ThiagoOK, the Millbrook Tickets app is open. The violin and cello concert, right?
Hye-jinYes! My brother plays the cello in it. Is Saturday, October 18 good?
ThiagoSaturday is good. Now the seats. Balcony or orchestra?
Hye-jinHmm. How much are the orchestra seats?
ThiagoThey're fifty dollars each. They're downstairs, near the stage.
Hye-jinFifteen? That's cheap!
ThiagoNo, fifty! Five, zero. The balcony seats are $25.50.
Hye-jinThe balcony, then. We can see the whole stage from up there.
ThiagoTwo balcony tickets. Wait. There's a service fee. It's $4.50 a ticket!
Hye-jinEvery app has a service fee. So what's the total?
ThiagoSixty dollars. OK, done! Did you get the confirmation email?
Hye-jinYes, it's here. The concert is at 7:30. Let's meet at the front door at seven.

Short forms you hear: they're = they are that's = that is there's = there is it's = it is what's = what is let's = let us

  1. 1How much are the orchestra seats?▶ Hear this part
  2. 2How much is the service fee for one ticket?▶ Hear this part
  3. 3What is the total?▶ Hear this part
  4. 4Does Hye-jin's brother play the violin?▶ Hear this part
  5. 5Hye-jin says, "cello." The e in cello is .▶ Hear this part

★★★ Listen and write

Click the speaker. Listen. Write the missing word.

  1. 1Hye-jin: My brother plays the in it.
  2. 2Thiago: Now the .
  3. 3Thiago: There's a service .
  4. 4Thiago: Did you get the email?

Now you

Now YOU. Buy two tickets, in the chat.

Two ___ tickets, please. The total is $___.

Like this:

Choose your seats. Then write the total in the chat. Add the service fee!

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For the teacher · Answer key

★ Listen: concert tickets  ·  balcony seats  ·  Yes, there is.    ★★ Listen and read: $50 (fifty, not fifteen)  ·  $4.50  ·  $60  ·  No, he doesn't. (He plays the cello.)  ·  Short E    ★★★ Listen and write: cello  ·  seats  ·  fee  ·  confirmation.