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1 00.2 Possible answers:
1 A: Are you a football fan? 4 A: Which number is yours?
B: Well, I like it; I wouldn't R: Let me see. .. it's that
say I was a fan. one here, yes, this one.
2 A: 1'11 take care of these. 5 A: He's looking exhausted.
B: Right, that's everything. R: Yes, he is.
A: Fine, so see you next week. A: Mind you, he has an awful lot of
B: Good. That was a very useful meeting. ' responsibility, so it's hardly surprising.
3 A: It was last Monday I 6 A: What do you mean 'cold'?
was coming home from B: Well, she's not
work. I saw this ragged friendly, very distant, so
old man approaching me. to speak. Last week I gave
Anyway, I stopped him ... her a jolly smile and she ...
B: Jim Dibble! like.. .scowled at me.
A: Hang on! Let me tell you the way you smile at people,
what happened first. A: Well what do you expect? Look, I've seen
the way you smile at people it sort of
puts them off.

0.3 1 First of all 6 Lastly
2 in other words 7 In summary (In conclusion would not be suitable here, since
3 For example / For instance it just means 'this is the end of the text', whereas this
4 Next sentence provides a summing up of the arguments in the
5 as it were / so to speak text.)

Follow-up:
If it is difficult or impossible for you to get hold of tape-recordings of natural conversation, you
can find transcripts in D. Crystal and D. Davy's Advanced Conversational English (London:
Longman, 1975), where you will find a wide range of markers in actual use.

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