6. Negotiating price

 

6. Conversation: நூறு ரூபா குடுங்க

 

   Goal: Negotiating price

 

 

Translate the following exchange including the setting stated in the beginning

 

 

(John is staying in a hotel. He talks to a taxi driver in front of the hotel). 

 

John: I must go to the airport in the morning.

 

Taxi driver: At what time?

 

John: At five.

 

Taxi driver: At what time should you be there?

 

John: At six

 

Taxi driver: Then we must leave at 4

 

John: How much do you want?

 

Taxi driver: How much luggage do you have?

 

John: Only one suit case

 

Taxi driver: Give me 100 rupees

 

John : 100 rupees is more (excessive).

 

Taxi driver: Airport is twenty miles (away). I have to come in the morning.

 

John: O.K. Come sharply at 4

 

( Help: airport ‘விமானநிலையம்’ ( the English word ஏர்போர்ட் is used commonly); taxi driver ‘டாக்சிக்காரர்’ (the English word டாக்சி டிரைவர் is commonly used); luggage ‘பெட்டி’ (the English word suitcase சூட்கேஸ்’ is used commonly); sharply, exactly ‘சரியா

 

Write a face to face conversation in which you try to find a place to live in Tamil Nadu.