English for Business Life Elementary

UNIT 35
Hiringa car
Some useful phrases
Listen to the recording and repeat
Where can I hire a car?
There is (There's) a place inside the airport.
There's a Hertz outside the station.
You can go online.
What size car do you want?
Have you got something like a Ford Focus?
When do you want it?
This Monday. Next Monday.
How long do you want it for?
A week to ten days.
We have an estate that might suit you.
what make is it?
make model colour year
The rental is $450 per week, including tax.
Does that include insurance?
The price includes unlimited mileage.
That seems OK.
That sounds very reasonable.
seems sounds looks
reasonable cheap expensive
Can I see your driving licence, please?
Can you fill in this form, please?
Sign here, please.
Here are the keys.
Study notes
Where can I hire a car?
We can also say: Where can I rent a car?
... som ething like a Ford Focus
You can use like in comparisons.
This car is like that one. It's not like the other one.
This M onday.
N ext M onday.
This Monday = the nearest one.
Next Monday - not this one, the one after.
H ow long do you w ant it for?
Notice that for stands at the end.
For how long do you want it? is unusual.
The rental is $450 per w eek ...
Notice how rent, rental, charge and rate are used.
The charge for photocopying is 5 cents per copy
- the rate is 5 cents per copy.
The rent for this office is $2,500 per month
= the rate is $2,500 per month.
The rental for this car is €500 per week
= the rate is €500 per week.
I ______
That seem s OK.
Some verbs like seem, want, like are not normally used in the
Continuous tense. We do not say That is seeming OK.
See Reference Section 2.4.
Can you fill in this form ... ?
Note the word order after//// in.
Fill in the form. Fill the form in. Fill it in.
(not Fill in it.)
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