In pairs, write a short dialogue for these situations. Then practise your dialogues.
1 You bought a hotdog from the college
canteen. It isn't very hot and there's no
ketchup in it
2 You borrowed a CD from a friend. You
dropped it and now it doesn't play.
2. Always a punctual woman, she (comes) downstairs as the front door (is being opened) for Charles.
3. Some kind of public demonstration (is being planned) to take place at the airport tonight.
4. The flight (had not been announced) yet. It (would not be announced) for another half-hour, at least.
5. The message, as Tanya (was dictating) it, (was being typed) by a girl clerk in New York.
6. She could tell by the inclination of his head that he (had been listening) intently to everything that (had been said).
7. It (is) an old house that (is divided) into flats.
8. Julia can’t know what (is being said) about her, and someone must tell her.
9. Each apartment was usually ( shared) by two or three girls. They (were known) as stewardess’ nests.
10. Inez (occupied) a chair in the room’s centre to which she (had been/was guided) on arrival.
11. He ( saw) that the doors of Trans America Flight Two (had not been closed) yet, and a few remaining passengers were still ( checking) in.