Possible variations

1st Speaker

1. What’s the name of that book?

2. It’s made into a play, you know. D’you find the book interesting?

3. Why? Not modern English?

4. Well, why should you read it? (Why are you reading it?) (Why bother reading it?)

5. That’s so,

6. The play is splendid too. It’s really a work of art.

7. I say. If you lend me the book, I’ll take you to the play. I’d like to see it again myself.

Well, you see, the characters are wonderfully done.

CLASS ROOM DISCUSSION

1St Speaker

1. Comrade Brown!

2. May I ask you a question?

3. What does the word “pene­trate” mean?

4. Yes, it’s not clear from the dictionary.

5. Well, I looked up the tran­scription. Do I pronounce it right? Penetrate.

2nd Speaker

1. “Pickwick Papers”. It’s, writ­ten by Charles Dickens.

2. Oh, rather! But the language is not very easy.

(Oh, rather! But it’s not easy reading.)

3. It’s not that, exactly. But still, the English isn’t quite modern.

4. Because the characters are simply wonderful.

5. And you can get an idea of Pickwick’s England.

6. I wonder whether the play and the book are the same. But I suppose you don’t know yet.

7. Splendid! It’ll be interesting if we have both read the book.

2Nd Speaker

1. Yes?

2. Yes, certainly.

3. Penetrate?

4. Why not?

5. Yes, that’s right.

6. But then, there are the syn­onyms and antonyms. Does it mean “to cut through”?

7. Then I can’t say, “The sun penetrated through the win­dow.”

8. I see. With difficulty. Can I say, “The sun penetrated through the thick leaves of the trees”?

9. No. I understand now. But then there’s the preposition. Is it always used with the preposition, or may I use it without one?

10. Yes, and with other prepo­sitions its meaning changes again. For instance — “The cold penetrated into my bo­nes.”

POSSIBLE VARIATIONS

1st Speaker

1.

2. Are you very busy?

3. What does the word “pene­trate” mean? (What’s the meaning of the word “pene­trate”?)

4. can’t get the exact meaning.

5. Is this pronunciation correct? (Have I got the pronunciation correct?) Penetrate.

6. And now the meaning. Is “to cut through” a synonym?

7. Is it correct to say,

6. It means “to go through with some sort of difficulty”.

7. Not usually. There’s not enough difficulty, you see. Not unless the window were awfully dirty.

8. Yes, certainly. But, even then, it wouldn’t be very bright un­der the tree, would it?

9. It changes the meaning, I think. Without the preposi­tion, it’s more like “to cut through”. For instance, we say, “The bullet penetrated the door.”

10. That’s right. A very diffi­cult word indeed, isn’t it?

2nd Speaker

1.

2. No, what is it?

3.The meaning of “penetrate”...

4.Why, what’s wrong?

5.Quite right..

6.It’s more like “to go through with some difficulty”.

7.I’m afraid not. There must be some difficulty, you see.

8. I see. There must be difficul­ty. Is it right to say ...?

9.That’s clear now. But what about the preposition? Is there always a preposition, or is it sometimes used without one?

MAKING AN APPOINTMENT