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Immediately after the two friends met and exchanged greetings, X should use a

sentence beginning: ‘I’ve heard that you ...’ or ‘Is it true that you ....?’ or ‘I haven’t

seen you since you ....’.

VI. Working in pairs, prepare and act a dialogue in which

X says goodbye to a friend, Y, who is about to set off for a

holiday in Germany. Use Dialogue B as a model.

2. Apologies

Dialogue (polite; mildly formal)

(Jill, who has overslept, arrives at the bus stop out of breath and joins the queue.)

Jill: (to the man in front of her in the queue) Excuse me, could you tell me the

correct time, please?

Man: (who has been daydreaming) I beg your pardon, I didn’t catch what you

said.

Jill: I said: ‘Could you tell me the correct time, please?’. My watch has stopped.

Man: Sorry, so has mine.

Jill: Never mind, the bus is coming anyway.

(They got on a bus, which is very crowded. As the bus starts, Jill treads on a

woman’s toe.)

Jill: I’m terribly sorry, I was thrown off balance.

Woman: Oh, that’s all right.

(Jill manages to get a seat, settles down, opens her briefcase and takes out a book.)

Passenger: Pardon me, I think you’ve dropped something.

Jill: Oh yes, it’s a letter. Thank you very much.

Passenger: Don’t mention it.

(The bus approaches the stop at which Jill has to get off. She gets up and starts to

push her way pass the standing passengers to the door.)

Jill: Excuse me ... Excuse me ... Excuse me ...

(Jill gets off and hurries to the university. When she arrives the tutorial has already

started.)

Jill: I must apologize for being late, Professor Wood, I’m afraid I overslept.

Wood: It’s quite all right, we’ve only just started.