English for Business Life Elementary

UNIT 19
Drinks and snacks
Some useful phrases
Listen to the recording and repeat
What can I get you?
What would you like to have?
to have to drink to have to eat
Coffee or tea?
Do you take milk?
Would you like a cup of coffee?
How do you like it?
Black? White? Milk? Cream?
Do you take sugar?
Whose coffee is this?
Is that your coffee?
I think that one is (one's) mine.
This one's yours.
Can I get you anything else?
Is there any more coffee?
No, I'm afraid there is not (isn't).
Some more coffee? No, thanks.
Another cup? Yes, please.
Try one of these.
Thank you.
a sandwich a biscuit a cake
It is (It's) very good.
It's delicious.
Study notes
Coffee or tea?
Notice this use of short questions. More examples include:
Black? White? Some more coffee? Another cup?
H ow do you like it?
Here this means How do you want it?
How do you like your tea? —►With milk, please, but no sugar.
But the question can also mean Do you like it?
How do you like your job? —*■Very much.
How do you like it here? —►It's great!
W hose coffee is this?
Questions with whose have two possible forms.
Whose coffee is this? Whose is this coffee?
They are both used and they m ean the same.
I thin k th at one is m ine.
Use one tones in place of a noun (or noun phrase).
This coffee is mine, that coffee is yours.
This coffee is mine, that one is yours.
These keys are mine, those keys are yours.
These keys are mine, those ones are yours.
See also Reference Section 12.1.
...is m ine
Notice the possessive pronouns:
Singular mine Plural
yours
his/hers
its
Whose is this? —►It's mine.
ours
yours
theirs
theirs
Can I get you anything else?
We can also say:
Can I get you something else?
See also Reference Sections 13.1 for some I any and 13.2 for
something / anything.
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