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This Is A Practice by DR Kamal That You Might Want To Have A Look and Answer Them When You Have Time. Have Fun! Practice 1

This practice document contains examples of literal and non-literal phrases to determine meaning, different meanings of the same word in different contexts, and a conversation between two people at a bus stop with questions to analyze what information is being exchanged. Participants are asked to determine whether sentences have a literal or non-literal meaning, if words have the same definition in different contexts, and the points at which the bus stop conversation switches from casual chatting to an informative discussion.

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This Is A Practice by DR Kamal That You Might Want To Have A Look and Answer Them When You Have Time. Have Fun! Practice 1

This practice document contains examples of literal and non-literal phrases to determine meaning, different meanings of the same word in different contexts, and a conversation between two people at a bus stop with questions to analyze what information is being exchanged. Participants are asked to determine whether sentences have a literal or non-literal meaning, if words have the same definition in different contexts, and the points at which the bus stop conversation switches from casual chatting to an informative discussion.

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This is a practice by Dr Kamal that you might want to have a look and answer them when you have

time. Have fun! Practice 1 This practice is a beginning step that encourages you to think about issues related to semantics A. Look at the following sentences and state whether they are intended to be taken literally (Yes) or not (No). 1. Tired traveler: This suitcase is killing me. Yes No 2. Assistant in a shop: we regularly do the impossible; miracles take a little longer. 3. During a business meeting: Its a dog-eat-dog situation. 4. During a heated argument: Dont bite my head off! 5. Hungry person at the dinner table: I could eat a horse!

Yes Yes Yes Yes

No No No No

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B. Does the word bank have the same meaning in the following sentence pairs? 1. I have an account at the bank of Scotland. We steered the raft to the other bank of the river. 2. The DC-10 banked sharply to avoid a crash. I banked up the fire to keep it burning all night. 3. Write down two sentences bringing out clearly the two different meanings of The chicken is ready to eat. a. b. He greeted the girl with a smile. a.
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C. Read the following conversation between two people, A and B, at the bus stop one morning. (The lines are numbered for reference.) Then answer the questions 1-8. 1. A: Nice day. 2. B: Yes, a bit warmer than yesterday, isnt it? 3. A: Thats right-one day fine, the next cooler 4. B: I expect it might get cooler again tomorrow 5. A: Maybe- you never know what to expect, do you? 6. B: No. Have you been away on holiday? 7. A: Yes, we went to Spain 8. B: Did you? Were going to France next month 9. A: Oh. Are you? Thatll be nice for the family. Do they speak French? 10. B: Sheilas quite good at it, and were hoping Martin will improve 11. A: I expect he will. I do hope you have a good time 12. B: Thank you. By the way, has the 42 bus gone by yet? It seems to be late 13. A: No. Ive been here since eight oclock and I havent seen it 14. B: Good. I dont want to be late for work. What time is it now? 15. A: Twenty-five past night. 1. Does the speaker A tell B anything he doesnt already know in lines 1, 3, and 5? Yes No 2. Does As statement in line 7 give B any new information? Yes No

3. When B says Did you? in line 8, is he really asking A to tell him whether he (A) went to Spain? Yes No 4. Is there any indication that A needs to know the information that B gives him about travelling to France? Yes No 5. Does As Thatll be nice for the family in line 9 give B any information? Yes

No

6. Do As statements in lines 13 and 15 give B any information that he (B) needs? Yes No 7. At what point does this conversation switch from an exchange of uninformative statements to an exchange of informative statements?

8. At what point does the information exchanged begin to be of a sort that one of the speakers actually needs for some purpose in going about this everyday business?

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