Answer — Exercise 1

1

• Clare: While out on a date, she put sugar on her burger. She was too embarrassed to say anything and ate it all, pretending to enjoy it.
• Luke: While he was standing in as a waiter at a smart dinner event, he tripped and fell and dropped mashed potato on the shoulder of one of the women at the table.
• Rachel: Her great aunt and uncle were travelling on the train from Wales to London. When the train stopped at a station, her great aunt got off the train to buy cups of tea from the buffet, came back out through the wrong door onto the opposite platform and boarded a train back to Wales.

2

• Clare: sugar, a first date
• Luke: a formal dinner, a spoonful of mashed potato, people wearing evening dress
• Rachel: a station buffet, a great aunt and uncle, a remote part of Wales