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Closure stage-socialization

31. Perform the dialogue and decide when it is each interlocutor’s turn to speak.

• Follow the acoustic features described and choose which is the best.

Person A Acoustic Person B session 10
features
Interviewer: How do High speed Nadia Comaneci: Well, it feels great to come back to
you feel coming back Monotonous Montreal, it’s always emotional when I come here.
to Montreal? tone Everything that’s happening today with me, and my life, is
Interviewer: So, Proper because of that moment that happened here in Montreal.

basically, your life was intonation Nadia Comaneci: Yes, I was a kid, but I think I knew what
decided when you and speed I was doing, I’d been in the sport for so many years that I
were a kid. didn’t consider myself a young person. I think I was prepared Sequence of events
Interviewer: Did you for that, and I was telling myself the whole time, “This is the

know what a perfect Olympics. I cannot make a mistake. This is one shot.”
score meant? Nadia Comaneci: I didn’t -I knew that 10 was a big deal,
Interviewer: What because I’d done gymnastics for eight - nine years, and
do you think about I’d done competitions, and I had even done the same
yourself as a teenage routines before, but I was too young to understand that.
girl who acheived a Nadia Comaneci: The older I get, I realize that what I did

perfect score in the was such a big thing, which I didn’t realize then. I was 14
Olympics? and I was like, “I know what I’m doing. I’m going to go to
the Olympics.” I still question myself about how a little kid
has that kind of drive to be able to do that.

• Have a conversation and tell your anecdote. Use the appropriate acoustic features
and respect each person’s turn to speak.

32. Complete the conversation below with the appropriate interventions.
Look at the example.

Interviewer: Example: How do you feel coming back to Montreal?
Nadia Well, it feels great to come back to Montreal, it’s always emotional when I come
Comaneci: here. I’ve been a couple of times since the games in ’76, I also lived here for a year
and a half. And everything that’s happening today with me, and my life, is because of
that moment that happened here in Montreal.
Interviewer:
Nadia Yes, I was a kid, but I think I knew what I was doing, you know, people -they were
Comaneci: thinking of me as a kid, but I think that I’d been in gymnastics for so many years that
I didn’t consider myself as a young person.

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