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Boys vs girls: sharing a room

Three natural English lines for Boys vs girls: sharing a room, each heard in a film, with tone notes.

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Hana: Keep the window side. I'll keep the heater and your snacks.

Theo: So the view for me, my cookies for you?

Hana: You can have the window. I'll take the heater side.

Theo: That works. I'll send you postcards from the window.

1 That works.

Tone Casual, easy yes

A quick, relaxed way to agree.

Yeah. That works.

Heard in One Bedroom (2018)

2 You can have it.

Tone Kind and generous

Use it to give something away.

You can have it.

Heard in A Haunting in Venice (2023)

3 I'll take the other side.

Tone Clear and decisive

Use it to settle who sits where.

I'll take the other side.

Heard in L'ours (1988)

Film lines are short quotes used for language teaching. The dialogue belongs to its rightsholders. Hana and Theo are animated characters made with Google Flow.

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