Listen to the recording and read along with the conversation. Review the key vocabulary and the sample sentences.
Apartment Manager: Well, hi Mr. Brown. How’s the apartment working out for you?
Tenant: Well Mr. Nelson. That’s what I’d like to talk to you about. [What?] Well, I want to talk to you about that noise! [Oh] You see. Would you mind talking to the tenant in 4B and ask him to keep his music down, especially after 10:00 o’clock at night?
Apartment Manager: Ohhh. Who me?
Tenant: Why yes. The music is blaring almost every night, and it should be your job as manager to take care of these things.
Apartment Manager: Hey, I just collect the rent. Besides, the man living there is the owner’s son, and he’s a walking refrigerator. [Well . . .] Hey, I’ll see what I can do. Anything else?
Tenant: Well, yes. Could you talk to the owners of the property next door about the pungent odor drifting this way.
Apartment Manager: Well, the area is zoned for agricultural and livestock use, so there’s nothing much I can do about that.
Tenant: Well, what about the . . . . That, that noise.
Apartment Manager: What noise? I don’t hear anything.
Tenant: There, there it is again.
Apartment Manager: What noise?
Tenant: That noise.
Apartment Manager: Oh, that noise. I guess the military has resumed its exercises on the artillery range.
Tenant: You have to be kidding. Can’t anything be done about it?
Apartment Manager: Why certainly. I’ve protested this activity, and these weekly [Weekly!] activities should cease . . . within the next three to five years.
Tenant: Hey, you never told me about these problems before I signed the rental agreement.
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