THE FIRST DIALOGUE

Alessia: Hello aunt Mary. How are you?

Aunt Mary: Fine thank you, but I’m a little tired.

Alessia: Why? Don’t you sleep? At what time do you get up in the morning?

Aunt Mary: I always get up at five o’clock and then I do my homework.

Alessia: It’s very early! At what time do you start work at the post office?

Aunt Mary: I start my work at eight o’clock and I often finish at half past three.

Alessia: What do you do in the afternoon?

Aunt Mary: I sometimes go to the supermarket, I wash the clothes or I  go out with my dog Toby.

Alessia: At what time do you have dinner?

Aunt Mary: I have dinner at a quarter past eight so I start cooking  at seven o’clock.

Alessia: Wow, so you go to sleep very early!

Aunt Mary: No, it’s wrong! I must wash the dishes and later I usually iron the dresses of your cousins and your uncle’s  jeans and shirts. So I always go to sleep after  midnight.

Alessia: Poor aunt! I think you’re tired!

THE SECOND DIALOGUE

Layla: Hello Alessia! Nice to see you .

Alessia: Hi Layla. How are you ?

Layla : Fine thanks, but  the new school’s subjects are very hard so I must study all day.

Alessia: Also for me is very difficult. At what time do you wake up ?

Layla: I wake up at half past six but I get up at a quarter to seven. Then I always have to run if I want to  catch my bus to Gorizia at twenty minutes past seven. And you ?

Alessia: I’m more lucky because my bus is at a quarter to eight so I can sleep until ten past seven but then I have to run too. At what time do you start school  ?

Layla: My lessons  starts at twenty minutes past eight and it finishes at half past one in the afternoon. I always arrive home at two o’clock.

Alessia : Do you have lunch with your mother ?

Layla: I generally have lunch with her and sometimes there is my brother with us.

Alessia: Then in the afternoon homework, homework and still homework, is it right ?

Layla: Yes of course, until dinner.

Alessia: Do you have dinner at eight o’clock, like me ?

Layla: Yes, I have. I usually have dinner in half an hour and I must often to study again.

Alessia: At what time do you go to sleep ?

Layla: I’m generally in bed at ten o’clock; I’m really dead.

Alessia: Me too. Our lives are  really terrible.