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[23:00] Role-Playing English Conversation: Practical English Dialogue and Listening Practice for Restaurant Reservations

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This article presents a realistic role-play dialogue demonstrating how to make a table reservation in English at a restaurant. Combined with 'Moe Er Duo' English listening practice materials, it helps learners improve practical speaking and listening skills.

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Roll-play English conversation. How to book a table? I will have dinner with Emma tomorrow night. Cowboy Steakhouse is very popular. It is better to make a reservation ahead of time.

Good afternoon. This is Cowboy Steakhouse. How may I help you? Can I book a table for tomorrow evening? Certainly, sir. For how many people? Two, please. Okay. When would you like to make the reservation for? What time do you serve dinner? We serve dinner between 5 pm and 9 pm. I'd like to make a reservation for 7 pm. Let me see if there are any tables available.

I'm sorry. We are fully booked at that time. Do you have anything available earlier or later? We have availability for 5.30 pm. 5.30 pm would be fine. By the way, how long will you hold a reservation? We will hold it for 20 minutes.

Could we have a table by the window, please? Yes, no problem. May I have your last name, please? It's Walker. Mr. Walker, can I have your contact number, please? My phone number is 917-425-3729. Excuse me. Can you repeat that, please? Okay. It's 917-425-3729.

So, Mr. Walker, your reservation is for two people, tomorrow evening at 5.30. Is that right? Yes, that's right. And do you have a dress code? No, we don't. We are pretty casual. But shorts and flip flops are not entirely welcome.

I see. Do you have a parking lot? Yes, we have a parking lot behind the restaurant. And we also have valet parking. That sounds great. Thank you for your help. You're welcome. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow evening at 5.30. Goodbye.

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casual
contact
noun
1. close interaction
e.g. they kept in daily contact
they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings
2. the act of touching physically
e.g. her fingers came in contact with the light switch
Synonym: physical contact
3. (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
e.g. they forget to solder the contacts
Synonym: tangency
4. a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
Synonym: contact lens
5. a channel for communication between groups
e.g. he provided a liaison with the guerrillas
Synonym: liaisonlinkinter-group communication
6. a communicative interaction
e.g. the pilot made contact with the base
he got in touch with his colleagues
Synonym: touch
7. the physical coming together of two or more things
e.g. contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull
Synonym: impingingstriking
8. a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
e.g. he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor
Synonym: middleman
9. the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
e.g. litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid
reservation
noun
1. the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
2. the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
e.g. wondered who had made the booking
Synonym: booking
3. an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
Synonym: mental reservationarriere pensee
4. something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
5. a statement that limits or restricts some claim
e.g. he recommended her without any reservations
Synonym: qualification
6. the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
7. a district that is reserved for particular purpose
Synonym: reserve
availability
noun
1. the quality of being at hand when needed
Synonym: handinessaccessibilityavailableness
valet
noun
1. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
e.g. Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man
Synonym: valet de chambregentlemangentleman's gentlemanman