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Continue Activity 15 below
Example:

1 What did you say? 4 Pardon? Speak more slowly, please.

Can you elaborate on that I didn’t understand that,
2 subject? can you backtrack a little? Can you explain what that is?

Could you repeat that a What do you mean by
3 little louder? that? Excuse me?

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There was a public speaking competition and Moniba, my friend, and I both decided to enter.
She spoke well ( ). She did a good job, but I was so nervous before the speech, I was
4
trembling with fear. I remembered what my father had said about taking a deep breath
before starting, but then I saw that all eyes were on me and I rushed through. ( )
I rushed through. I kept losing my place as the pages danced in my shaking hands, but as I
ended I looked up at my father. He was smiling. ( ) He was smiling. When the judges

announced the results, Moniba had won. I came in second.
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On our way back from Islamabad, our bus hit a pothole. ( ) It’s a hole on the ground.
It sounded like an explosion. My brother Khushal, who had been asleep, jerked awake. 'Was
that a bomb blast?' he asked. ( ) That was the fear that filled our daily lives. Any small
disturbance or noise could be a bomb or gunfire. ( ) I mean that we were so scared,
that we were worried all the time about everything.

• Role-play the oral testimony you selected and include the appropriate features.

16. Check the oral testimony you selected and identify a couple damage (n.):
of words you don’t know the meaning of. daño

• Find out their meaning using contextual clues. Look at the example.
Example:

Unknown word: pothole

Step 1: Look for contextual clues. These “way back”, “bus”, “tire”, “explosion”
are the words and phrases that
surround the word you don’t know.

Step 2: Guess what the unknown word The tire exploded because the bus hit a pothole
means using the contextual clues. on the highway. I know that tires can be damaged
when they hit holes in the ground.”

Step 3: Check your definition by inserting it “On our way back from Islamabad, our bus
in place of the unknown word and hit a hole in the ground. It sounded like an
see if it makes sense. explosion.”

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