Clerk:Mm…and your address?
Customer:8 Grange Park, Ealing Broadway.
Clerk:8 Grange Park, Ealing Broadway. Right. Well,now, there’s transfer fee. It’s three pounds for a paymentsgroupsand six pounds if we telegraph it through.
Customer:What’s the difference?
Clerk:Well, with a telegraphic transfer it will get there in 3 days. The other way will take about two weeks.
Customer: Oh, it’s fairly urgent, so I th
ink we’d better telegraph it.
Clerk:All right. Well, I’ll hand this on to the teller and she’ll call out your name in a few minutes.
Customer:Thank you.
Part B
(M—Michael; C—Chinese girl student)
C:Michael, you know about finding a place to live in Vancouver for students? I wonder if you could tell me a bit about it? I wonder, for example,swherespeople get information?
M: The basic methods, I should imagine. The first is, er, the housing office at the university, the second is the two major newspapers in Vancouver, and the third is word of mouth.
C: Ah, right. So they go and talk to other students?
M: Through the grapevine.
C: And what sort of housing do the students look for? They look to rent a place, I suppose?
M: Rent, er, something cheap, something close to the university. These are the two major priorities.
C: Do they usually prefer to take university housing or housing outside?
M: I think it depends on the student. The younger students, first time away from home—they might feel like they needed some more of the security of living on the campus. The older students, I think, would much prefer to live away from the school.
C: Mm, hm. Right, yes. And what sort of housing do they look for? Are they houses or apartments and, do they share of what happens?