Renting a Place

Setting Up Bills

Opening accounts and a bill that looks wrong.

水电网 · 8 turns · you say 4 lines

  1. Them

    Which supplier would you like to use?

  2. You

    Whichever is cheapest for a small flat.

  3. Them

    This one has a fixed price for a year.

  4. You

    My last bill seemed unusually high.

  5. Them

    Did you send them a meter reading?

  6. You

    No, nobody told me that was needed.

  7. Them

    That explains it. Send one today.

  8. You

    I will do that as soon as I get home.

In the app you can tap any word for a definition, and turn on a line-by-line translation in your own language.

Words in this dialogue

  • suppliera company that provides goods
  • whicheverany one of them
  • cheapestcosting little
  • smallthe smallest of the sizes offered
  • flatan apartment; level
  • fixedto repair; to sort out
  • pricehow much something costs
  • yeartwelve months
  • lastfinal; the one before this; to continue for a time
  • billa note of what you owe
  • seemedto appear to be
  • unusuallymore than is normal
  • highfar above the ground; large in amount
  • sendto make something go somewhere
  • metera device that measures use
  • readingto look at words and understand them
  • nobodyno person
  • toldpast form of tell
  • neededhad to have
  • explainsto make something clear
  • todaythis day
  • soonin a short time
  • homewhere you live