Queues, shops and parcels: 18 everyday English phrases
All 18 words and phrases
In a queue10
- who's next?asks which person in the queue will be served now
- how long have you been waiting?asks someone how much time they have spent in the queue
- next pleasethe person serving calls the next customer forward
- can I help you find anything?a shop worker offers to help you
- waiting in linestanding with other people, waiting for your turn
- the line wassays how long or busy the queue was
- how long is the wait?how long you must wait to be served
- I'll waityou don't mind staying until it is your turn
- one at a timeeach person goes in turn, not all together
- it's your turnnow it is your time to be served or go
A parcel or delivery8
- next day deliveryyour order comes the day after you buy it
- free deliveryno charge for bringing your order to you
- it hasn't arrivedyour parcel has not come yet
- it came brokenthe thing you ordered was in pieces or not working when it got to you
- my orderthe things you bought that are being delivered
- came todaythe parcel was delivered today
- collect itgo and get your parcel from a place
- unboxtake a new thing out of its box
More packs
- Taxis, traffic and directionsGetting a cab, stuck in traffic and asking the way.
- Coffee shops and takeawaysOrdering at the counter and getting food delivered.
- Restaurants and the pubA table, the menu, the bill and a drink at the bar.
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- Part of Talk's everyday situations, 7 packs next to the Daily life in London set. We drafted 679 phrases people say in 18 everyday situations, from a queue and a taxi to a coffee shop and a walk. We left out the ones Talk's other packs already have. A phrase stays only if Talk's spoken videos say it with the same meaning. One review picked each moment, and a second tried to reject it. Each phrase comes with up to three moments. This pack holds the 18 for queues, the shops and deliveries.
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