Exercise 14. Who made the following utterances? When and why were they made?

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Exercise 14. Who made the following utterances? When and why were they made?

1. “Don’t bother me any more.”

2. “Don’t talk such nonsense, we’ll have to put up with this.”

3. “Can I be of any service to you?”

4. “Anything will do.”

5. “Here, Tom, take these suitcases aboard!”

6. “Because you can have just anything you want.”

7. “That lamp is hung too high above the berth.”

8. “Don’t you like the way you are being served?”

9. “I recognized you the minute I set my eyes on you.” 10.“Mr McClellan, Mayor of New York.”

Exercise 15. Make up and act out a conversation between

a) Mark Twain and the young man in the booking office using the following phrases:

can I have a ticket, a sleeper, the train is packed, impossible, don’t you see, to be full up, but I really must get to, what shall I do, I can’t stay here for hours, no vacant seats

b) Mark Twain and the local official using the following phrases:

I am sorry, to trouble you, some poor little corner, the booking-office, to be sold out, every corner is full, to bother, any more

c) Mark Twain and his companion using the following phrases:

to feel hurt, if they knew who I was…, to talk nonsense, to put up with it, to be popular, it’s impossible, a vacant seat

d) Mark Twain and the porter on the train using the following phrases:

can I be of any service to you, is there anything you want, can I have…, I’ll do it myself, to be hung too high above the berth, fixed in the next compartment, to burn all night, to be turned inside out, thank you

DISCUSSION

Exercise 16. Work out the answers to the following questions.

1. Why was Mark Twain sure that he would be given a seat if the railway officials knew his name?

2. What did Mark Twain think when he was suddenly given a whole compartment in a sleeper? Was it “a poor little corner” or a comfortable compartment? Why was Mark Twain given that compartment?

3. What do you think Mark Twain and his companion talked about after the porter left?

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