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Continue Activity 30 below
• Practice the interview without the script.
• Use some fillers when needed.

Remember

Remember Fillers are words
and phrases that
are used to fill
silence when you
are speaking. They
Question tags are used to confirm information or to get a positive reaction from
✚ main clause ➔ − question tag
the person you are talking to. Follow this formula to write question tags:
are words that
do not add any
“If you like action films you love
− main clause ➔ ✚ question tag
real value to the
superhero movies, don’t you?”
sentence. They
simply keep us
“If you don’t like comedy movies, you
don’t like Adam Sandler, do you?”
going while we
think of the rest of
the sentence while
speaking out loud.
31. Write the question tags for the following clauses. Look at the example.

Question tag
Clause

1 You have seen Batman with Heath Ledger 1 haven’t you?
2
2 X-Men is published by Marvel Comics, 3
as the Joker,
3 Mike Mignola created Hellboy,
4
4 You don’t believe everything that happens
5 In the Power Rangers movie there is no 5
in movies,

wicked witch, wicked witch (adj.):

bruja malvada
college (n.): institución
• Check your interview and incorporate some question tags. de enseñanza superior
major (v.): especializarse
en un área determinada
Look at the example that highlights them in bold. en la universidad
Example:

He: Do you like movies? He: Wow! So, you are an expert, aren’t you? What
She: Yes, I do. Very much. I want to major movie do you consider to be a must-see?
in cinema studies in college. She: Umm… Let me think… V for Vendetta.
He: Cinema studies? I am sorry, I don’t He: That’s an interesting choice, but I believe
understand. it’s a comic book, isn’t it?
She: Cinema studies examines movies as both an She: Actually, it is based on a British comic book,
art form and as a form of mass culture. but they made a movie adaptation in 2005.

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