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The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.1 - Catch me if you can for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at these extracts from the listening in exercise 7c. Some words have been removed. Listen and add the missing words.
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  3. Now listen to some other extracts (1-7) and decide if the person is really asking a question, or expecting agreement. How do you know?

Answer

a)

  • B: ... from the Internet, don’t you?
  • A: ... do that a lot, don’t you?
  • B: ... I shouldn’t really, should I?
  • A: ... is a problem, is it?

c)

  1. Right, well, I think it would have to be copying work from the Internet, don’t you? → agreement
  2. I guess so. What about copying a CD from a friend? I do that a lot, don’t you? → question
  3. I don’t think the odd pen is a problem, is it? → agreement
  4. No, but you haven’t taken anything bigger, have you? → question
  5. That's a bit different, isn’t it? → agreement
  6. If I had, I wouldn’t tell you, would I? → agreement
  7. I think that’s pretty dishonest, actually, but people do it all the time, don’t they? → agreement

When we ask a question the intonation goes up, if we expect agreement then the intonation goes down.

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