Exercice 1

Choose the TRUE statement from the list below.

The sushi restaurant Susie suggests is located in the Delavigne building.

Miss Stake wants to meet at precisely 12:30.

Miss Stake has been trying to schedule an appointment with Susie for more than a week.

Susie suggests meeting for an evening meal.

Je ne sais pas

Choose the TRUE statement from the list below.

The sushi restaurant Susie suggests is located in the Delavigne building.

Susie says that she knows of a great sushi bar "just around the corner from the building". This indicates that the sushi restaurant is "close by" or "near by" in the neighborhood, however the restaurant is not in the same building.

Miss Stake wants to meet at precisely 12:30.

Miss Stake uses the idiom "on the dot" to refer to the time she is meeting with Susie. "On the dot" expresses something exact or precise, and is generally used to refer to the time. Example: Our train left the station at 3 o'clock on the dot. "On the dot" means "precisely" or "exactly" in this context.

Miss Stake has been trying to schedule an appointment with Susie for more than a week.

Miss Stake tells Susie that she has been in the Delavigne offices for more than a week, and that she would prefer to meet with her outside the offices. There is no indication that she has been trying to schedule an appointment for more than a week.

Susie suggests meeting for an evening meal.

Susie never suggests meeting for an evening meal or "dinner". She does speak of a "diner across the street", however a "diner" is a cheap restaurant. Rather, Susie and Fiona plat to "meet over lunch". "Lunch" is the meal eaten around midday to 3PM, in the middle of the day not the evening.

Exercice 2

Fill in the blanks below with terms describing the appropriate meal.

Jean must dine with his cousins.

This means that he will be eating with his cousins.
The first meal of the day, traditionally eaten the morning is called .
The second meal of the day, traditionally eaten around midday is called .

None of these terms were used in this conversation.

Je ne sais pas

Fill in the blanks below with terms describing the appropriate meal.

Jean must dine with his cousins.

This means that he will be eating dinner 1 with his cousins.
The first meal of the day, traditionally eaten the morning is called breakfast 2.
The second meal of the day, traditionally eaten around midday is called lunch 3.

None of these terms were used in this conversation.

1 dinner: "Dinner" is traditionally the last meal of the day. In this conversation, Jean uses the verb "to dine" which indicates the act of eating dinner specifically, and sometimes simply the act of eating or taking a meal. The meal itself is called "dinner".

2 breakfast: The term "breakfast" refers to the first meal of the day, traditionally eaten in the morning. Although not as common as the noun "breakfast" on its own, or the expression "to eat breakfast", "to breakfast" is occasionally used as a verb. The etymology of the "breakfast" comes from "to break the fast", an expression which describes ending the period of fasting (willfully abstaining from food).

3 lunch: The term "lunch" refers to the second meal of the day, traditionally eaten at midday. Although not as common as the noun "lunch" on its own, or the expression "to eat lunch", "to lunch" is occasionally used as a verb.

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