Dialogue A
A:What can I do for you,madam?
B:I'd like to buy two boxes of Chinese moon cakes.
A:All right. We have the Guangdong style and the Suzhou style. Which do you want?
B:The Suzhou style.
A:OK. Anything else?
B:Let me see. Ah,yes!I want some bananas.
A:Sorry,bananas are out of season now. But we have some good oranges. They are just in from the country.
B:Good. I'll take these ten oranges. How much would that come to?
A:Just a moment,please. Forty yuan for the moon cakes and seven yuan for the oranges. That'll be forty-seven yuan in all.
B:Here you are,sir.
A:Thank you. Here's your change.
B:Thank you. Good-bye.
Dialogue B
(A:shop Assistant B:Mr Smith C:Mrs Smith)
A:Can I help you?
C:I'd like to buy some Chinese cakes.
A:We have cream birthday cakes,ten yuan each. Do you like it?
C:Fine. Give me a cream birthday cake and two boxes of famous Chinese cakes,and help me to pick a variety of them,please.
A:All right. For Chinese style cakes,we have the Cantonese style and the Suzhou style. The skin of the Cantonese style cakes is sweet,soft,puffy palatable and filled with heavy stuffing. The famous Cantonese cakes are moon cakes from Guangdong, Sha—pi—ma…。The skin of the Suzhou style cakes is puffy and filled with fragrant nuts.There are not only sweet cakes but also meat moon cakes.
C:Well,will you wrap them up separately?
A:Certainly. Any thing else?
C:Nothing more. How much altogether?
A:Nineteen yuan and forty-five fen.
C:Here are two ten-yuan notes. Keep the change.
A:For me?Oh,no. We don't accept tips. But thank you all the same.
C:O. K. . Good-bye.
A:Good-bye. Please step in again.