source: Phonics ILearning / Pearson Education, INC 2014年6月10日
* social language: return lost property; identify ownership; express ethical beliefs
* grammar: possessive pronouns; conditional: factual and unreal
Interviewer: If you got a bill in a restaurant that was
obviously wrong, what would you do?
Jessica: I would tell the waitress and ask
her if everything’s OK.
Martin: I think they should tell the
waiter.
Interviewer: And what should they tell
them?
Martin: That they’re given too much change
or they’re undercharged.
Interviewer: How about if a person’s shopping in a
department store and an expensive piece of clothing has a tag on it that’s
obviously wrong—it’s priced too low—should that person tell the cashier or just
pay for it?
Catherine: I usually ask. That’s me,
though.
Jessica: Well, I would go to the cashier, or I think
everybody should go to the cashier, at least ask if that’s right. And if he
says it’s right, then at least you tried it.
Interviewer: And then suppose you found some cash on the
street, not in a wallet, just some cash lying on the street. What would you do
with it?
Catherine: I’d pick it up and put it in my
pocket.
Christiane: I usually do not pick up money if a very
poor person is around because I think a poor person needs it more than I do, so
I’d leave it lying there.
Interviewer: So are the three situations—the restaurant,
the department store, and the cash on the street—the same or different?
Martin: I think each one is different.
Interviewer: Why?
Martin: You make judgments all the time and
not everything is equal.
