CELPIP Listening Part 1 Practice Test: Ticket Exchange

MAN: I need to change these. Swap them, rather. I've got two for Saturday's eight o'clock, and my friend just got put on a shift that night.

WOMAN: Hang on, my reading glasses are here. The print on these is tiny. And park the umbrella in the stand, it's soaking the mat.

MAN: I'll shift my coffee off your counter too.

WOMAN: Now, pass me the ticket itself, the printed one, not the confirmation on your phone.

MAN: So a refund's out of the question, I'm guessing.

WOMAN: Only if we cancel the show ourselves. Yours were the half-price seats, and those are final sale.

MAN: Could I just hand them to somebody else, then?

WOMAN: You can, in theory. It's not the handing over that's the problem, it's the door. Half-price means they check the card that paid, and that card's yours.

MAN: So whoever turns up with them gets stopped.

WOMAN: Unless you're standing beside them. Exchanging is cleaner: same band, no fee, any time up to forty-eight hours before curtain.

MAN: Saturday's five days off, so I'm well clear of that.

WOMAN: Go through what's left in the run and come tell me.

MAN: Okay, I'm back. After Saturday there are three nights left, and none of them is simple. Thursday's matinee has a pair, same band as ours, so nothing extra to pay. Except she's on days Thursday.

WOMAN: There goes the cheap one. Friday?

MAN: Closing night. I'd love it, but what's left is singles, dotted all over the room.

WOMAN: Wednesday?

MAN: A pair, middle block, six rows back. The site flagged a price difference, though.

WOMAN: It's a higher band than the side seats you bought.

MAN: Could I put a hold on two of the Friday singles while I think?

WOMAN: Twenty minutes, and it only holds the Friday ones. Somebody could take that Wednesday pair meanwhile.

MAN: We could sit three rows apart on Friday, I suppose.

WOMAN: I wouldn't want to spend closing night mouthing across the room.

MAN: No. Wednesday it is, and I'll cover the difference.

WOMAN: Sensible. Book it on your phone if you like, but the extra has to be paid here before six — we shut then.

MAN: I'll do it right now, before I change my mind.

WOMAN: Good. Bring the confirmation over when you've got it.

MAN: Wednesday's booked, middle block, six rows back. It's asking me for eleven dollars more.

WOMAN: That's the band difference. I can take it here. Card or cash?

MAN: Card. Actually, hold on, there's a credit on my account from the fall.

WOMAN: There is one. Eight dollars, from a show we moved on you.

MAN: So that doesn't cover it all.

WOMAN: It brings you down to three. A credit comes off only if the whole lot goes on the booking card. Pay cash and it just sits there.

MAN: The card's in my pocket anyway. Three it is.

WOMAN: And these old Saturday ones, want them back?

MAN: Toss them, they're no good now. Could you print the new pair here?

WOMAN: I would, but the printer's been jamming all afternoon. And email drops into junk half the time on an exchange night. Then leave it with me. I'll put the pair at the door under your name. Collect them on the night.

MAN: And if her shift changes again?

WOMAN: One exchange per booking. After this they're yours.

MAN: Understood. Three dollars on the card, and I'll pick them up at the door.