Although this book is a member of the Colloquial series, and conforms broadly with the format and approach of other titles in the series. Colloquial English necessarily departs in some respects from its fellows. | 4 4 Terry is by the door. 5 They are in the kitchen. 6 Chris is next door. 7 We are in town tomorrow. 8 Stuart is at his desk. 9 My brother is on holiday at the moment. 10 This CD is broken. Language point 2 - question tags and tag responses In Dialogue 3 Paul says You re Mo aren t you and Mo answers Yes I am. In English when we want to check that something we have said is true we can add a question tag after a statement which invites the other speaker to confirm what has been said. There are many different types of tag so for now we will just look at one. Paul makes a statement You re Mo but he wants to make sure this is true so he adds aren t you so that Mo can tell him that he s right Yes I am Here are some more examples of tagged statements You re a nurse aren t you You re James aren t you You re a computer technician aren t you You re from Germany aren t you Mo responds to the tag using the full form of the verb be Yes I am we don t use the short form in tag responses so it is wrong to say Yes I m . We will look at question tags in more detail in Unit 2. 5 Exercise 2 Q Add the correct question tags to these sentences - the first one has been done for you. 1 You re a teacher aren t you 2 Simon s a footballer 3 Suzie s a nurse 4 Pete and Dave are lawyers 5 Ela s from Poland 6 This food s delicious 7 We re a bit late 8 It s cold this morning 9 You re from Finland 10 Ilse s from Austria Dialogue 4 Q Rosemary wants to introduce Justine and Tim to Stuart who doesn t know them. Rosemary Stuart this is Justine. Stuart Hello Justine. Justine Pleased to meet you Stuart. Rosemary And this is Tim. Tim Hello Stuart. Dialogue 5 Q Justine introduces Vicki to Chris. Justine Vicki - do you know Chris Vicki I don t think so. Justine Chris this is Vicki. Chris Hello Vicki. Vicki Hello Chris. Pleased to meet you. Language point 3 - introducing people You can find out if someone knows someone else or introduce two people who don t know .
