dialogue 1:
Jingjing: Mark, you look like you got______. Have you been ______ much this spring?
Mark: Just the ______! I'm really ______that I ______ much of the ______ this season.
Jingjing: I though you got out to the ______ a week.
Mark: Oh, yeah. I guess I've started to ______. That park's really ______—lots of______ and ______. I'd like to see some of Beijing's ______.
Jingjing: You mean, a park with ______, or ______?
Mark: Yeah, and______; that kind of ______.
Jingjing: ______go to Pavilion Park then?
Mark: There's a park with______? Why haven't I ______ it?
Jingjing: In Chinese, it's called Taoranting Park. It's in the ______ of the city, near a ______ ______subway ______.
Mark: Oh, I've been there ______. Is it ______ this time of year?
Jingjing: Sure. That one's ______ because people ______ have ______.
Mark: I bet it's ______.
Jingjing: It might get pretty______ on a ______. Anyway, you could send someone ______, from your ______, to ______out a ______ on a ______.
Mark: That sounds like it'd be a great way to______ a ______. Thanks for the ______! Is there anything else ______?
Jingjing: I'm not quite sure ______ it is from the Temple of ______. That's in the______ part of town though.
Mark: Hmm. If Taoranting Park isn't ______ enough, then I'll know where to ______ ______.
Jingjing: Hey, the ______ buildings at the Temple of Heaven might have a lot of ______; but it's a big park, with plenty of______. Have you been to the ______over by the ______ ______?
Mark: No, I______. I think you told me about it ______.
Jingjing: Yeah. I remember you liked______. There's one there. You should go there and______.
dialogue 2, a week later:
Jingjing: Mark, did you ______ to those places I______?
Mark: I did. ______! I had______, and ______of the ______. Now I'm ______where to go ______.
Jingjing: You could see ______ at Yuyuantan Park. But that's ______ to be pretty______.
Mark: Hmm, ______. I'd rather not get ______ on my ______.
Jingjing: Then there's Zhizhuyuan Park, also near the ______. If I remember ______, it has lots of ______ and ______, even an ______ area for______.
Mark: I haven't been there ______. It'd be______ to see ______ things have ______. There was a ______ I liked in that area too.
Jingjing: Well then, you have your ______!
Mark: Are you______ this Saturday? Wanna______ us?
Jingjing: I've already ______ to ______ Coal Hill and then______ through Beihai Park with a few friends of mine. But we ______ an early time and might be ______ when you're ______ at Zhizhuyuan.
Mark: Wow, you'd _______ ______!
Jingjing: ______, I like to see lots of ______on the weekend. ______ when you get to where you're going. I might be able to ______ with you.
Mark: OK. ______. Remind me when you're ______ at Beihai, if you haven't ______ me before that.
Jingjing: What's the______ you were going to ______?
Mark: Well, if it's ______ there:______ ______.
new words and phrases
bummed out:
take <something> for granted:
whatnot:
steer clear:
get trampled:
be all parked out: