Making requests and offers 77
- You are in a car with several friends. You want the driver to drop you off at the next corner.
- A friend is giving you a ride home. You want him to turn right at the next stoplight.
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EXERCISE
Write an appropriate question or statement offering assistance for each of the following
situations.
- An eight-year-old boy has just fallen off his bicycle and scraped his knee.
- You are at a party with your small child who will not stop crying and wants to go home.
- Your best friend is having a party for one hundred people at her home.
- Your brother didn’t get a paycheck last month.
- One of your coworkers seems to be having a heart attack.
- Your neighbor is going on vacation for two weeks.
- You are a sales assistant at a shoe store. A customer is looking at several pairs of shoes.
- You are a customer service representative at a large company. A woman has just
approached your desk. - You and your wife discover that your car has been stolen.
- A couple of tourists look lost.