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Homework.Task1.Ordering a meal in the restaurant
Waitress: Good evening sir
Customer: Good evening, can I see a menu, please?-1
Waitress: Certainly, here you are.-2
Customer: Thank you!
Customer:What would you recommend?-3
Waitress:I'd recommend the fish and chips. It's excellent!-4
1st pair functions as request-acceptance
2nd as offer-acceptance
Task2
1.A: Hey What’s up! Just checking in. What you doing?
B. Just finishing up things at school. I’ve got a paper due tomorrow, but, it’s almost done. Maybe another hour.
A. Ah Cool. What’s it about? I miss school.
B. Actually, its an economics paper about democracy.

2. A: Did you see the last season of Game of Thrones?


B: Yep.. I’ve got to say, I’m a little disappointed. I thought it would be better.
A: Me too. It felt so rushed. They tried to do too much. But.. the special effects were amazing. I mean.. that dragon scene was epic.It looked so real.
B: Shocking wasn’t it. They burnt everyone alive.
A: Well. Now that the season is done I need something new to watch. Any recommendations?
B: Did you see Wu-Tang?
A: What’s that? Wu- Tang? As in the rap group?
B: Yeah. they have a tv series. It’s pretty cool.
A: No way. That’s great. Is it any good?
B: Not bad. It won’t win any awards but it’s interesting to learn about them.
A: It’s a documentary?
B: No. It’s a drama. But it’s based on real life.
A: Okay. So. what’s been your favourite tv show this year?
B: Definitely Mr Robot.
A: Oh. Yeah. It’s quite good isn’t it. It really makes you think.
B: Yep. But probably we should be exercising more. Less tv more exercise.
A:Agreed.
Here is given 9 examples of adjacency pairs,statements given in yellow functions as question-answer
Green functions as offer-acceptance

Task3



A: Hey What’s your plan tonight?
1
B: No plans, I think I will relax at home. Work was busy today.


A:Do you want to go to the cinema? There’s a great movie

2 playing downtown.




B: Yes of course. What time? What movie?
3 4
A : Maybe at 7 or 8? It is the new Iron Man movie. It looks amazing!

B: Oh. Marvel. . . Actually I hate Marvel. I never spend money on Marvel movies. They are too boring.




A: If you want, I will buy you a ticket. My treat.
5
B: No thanks, I really don’t like Marvel.

In the conversation there are 5 adjacency pairs.1st 2nd 3rd 4th function as Question-answer


5th as Offer-refusal
All the second parts of the adjacency pairs refer to preferred responses except from 5th (dispreferred response)
No overlap occurs in conversation and there is no insertion sequence.All the utterances have their related answers.
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