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Tenacious Learner Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Are these questions and answers suitable? (E.M.-17b)?

Hi teachers,
According to this contex: (It is from a CD)
Yes, very interesting, I said. Can I sit down?
Yes, sir, of course. Here’s a chair. He looked at me, smiling. Would you like a glass of water, sir?
Yes, please, I said. Then I looked at the things in the dirty shop. There were two or three bad apples and some old black bananas: that was all.

Are these questions and answers suitable?
a) Who wanted to sit down? The doctor.
b) What did the shopkeeper offer to the doctor? A chair and a glass of water.
c) Was the store clean? No, it wasn't.
d) Was there any food in the dirty shop? Yes. There were two or three bad apples and some old black bananas.
e) Was there anything else? No, there wasn't.
f) How do you know it? Because the narrator says, 'That was all'. (not sure at all about this one)

Thanks in advance.
  

Top answer

a) Who wanted to sit down? The doctor. b) What did the shopkeeper offer to the doctor?

  • a) Who wanted to sit down?
  • The doctor.
  • b) What did the shopkeeper offer to the doctor?
  • A chair and a glass of water.
  • c) Was the store clean?
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a) Who wanted to sit down? The doctor.
b) What did the shopkeeper offer to the doctor? A chair and a glass of water.
c) Was the store clean? No, it wasn't.
d) Was there any food in the shop? Yes. There were some apples and bananas.-- 'Dirty' answers question C.
e) Was there anything else? No, there wasn't.
f) How do you know that? Because the narrato
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Hi Mister Micawber,
Thank YOU for your replies. They make me very happy. I'm not sucking up to you at all. (I hope it's the right way to say it)
This is how I feel right now and many times when I read your replies, yours and the other teachers.
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Thinking Spain I'm not sucking up to you at all.
A little adolescent in tenor, but I take your meaning, thank you.

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