Answer: Formal dialogue. A: How are you Mrs.Sadhana?
B: I am fine doctor. But I want to talk about my son Siva’s problem with you.
A: Yes.
B: You see, he’s always complaining of headache.
Answer: A: Won’t you have another helping?
(‘Helping’ means ‘taking a dish more than once’)
B: No, thank you.
I don’t like to get any, mother.
Answer: A: We are all eating at the Taj Hotel tonight.
B: Really? That’s great.
A: Do you know why we are going?
B: No.
A: To celebrate your new appointment.
B: Oh, it’s nice.
All our friends have agreed or not.
A: Yes. All agreed.
Do you know who is paying the bill?
B: Who else? You.
A: Me? Oh, no!
Answer: A: Excuse me, May I come in?
B: Yes, come in.
Whom do you want to meet?
A: Sir, I want to meet our house owner.
B: Sir, my father has gone out now.
What is the problem?
A: Our phone is not working.
Answer: A: Ticket please.
B: Where?
A: To Anna Nagar.
B: Give me twelve rupees.
A: Do you have change for fifty rupees?
B: Give me a two rupee coin. I will give you forty rupees.
A: Okay.
Answer: 2.2.DIALOGUE: FILL THE BLANKS We hope, now you have an idea on the concept “Dialogue”. Let’s move to the next stage of filling the dialogues with suitable responses. The response may either be questions or other forms of statements.
To complete the dialogue, it is necessary to learn ‘framing questions using specific/ open ended or Non-Specific/close - ended questions’.
Framing Questions: Non-specific or close ended questions begin with the auxiliary verbs such as ‘am’ is ‘are’ was, were, do, does, did, have, has, had, can, could, will, would, shall, should,”. They will have the short responses ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. The responses in both full and short form are accepted usually.
