KEY TO DIALOGUE FRAGMENTS

The fragments have been taken from the following novels:

1. The Millstone - Margaret Drabble.

Rosamund, the main character, a young woman, not married, is pregnant by one of her friends. She is telling Roger, one of her male friends, while they are having a meal in a restaurant.

2.Fair Stood the Wind for France - H.E. Bates.

John Franklin, a young British pilot, has made an emergency landing in occupied France during World War II. He is wounded and is looking for help. He goes into a farmyard and talks to the - elderly - farmer's wife. However, she is too scared to offer any help.

3.The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan

Four children, aged between 8 and 17, are left to fend for themselves after both their parents have died. They live in isolation and have hardly any social contacts. Jack, the 16-year-old son, is talking to his younger sister Sue.

4. A Kind of Loving - Stan Barstow.

Victor, a young man, has a crush on Ingrid, a colleague. One evening he is walking her home. He is hoping the attraction is mutual and tries to invite her again.

5. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster.

Mrs Moore is visiting her son Ronnie in India, together with Adela, his prospective fiancee. Ronnie wants his mother's advice and after everyone else has gone to bed, there is a confidential talk between mother and son.

6. The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad.

The time is around 1880. The captain of an old-fashioned sailing ship is becalmed in the south China sea, miles from land - the nearest land is the bottom of the sea. It is night. As he looks over the side of the boat, he sees a man in the water. The captain is astonished. Where could the man have come from?

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