1What comes to promise a new day?
2Ask and answer these tag questions with a partner: Elephants are not the tallest animals, are they? The mountain is tall, isn't it? They are nurses, aren't they? This is not a helicopter, is it?
3Write whether these statements are True or False: (a) The Boat restaurant serves five major categories of food. (b) Chocolate cake is the cheapest dessert. (c) If you order tomato soup, you will get bread and butter too. (d) Ice cream is available in only one flavour. (e) The restaurant remains open for dinner from 6 to 9 p.m. in the evening.
4Answer these questions about the menu: (a) Where is the restaurant located? (b) Which is the most expensive item? (c) What is the cheapest item available? (d) Why can't you enjoy a cheese burger anytime you like? (e) If you want to have vegetable pasta, how much would you pay? (f) What are the snacks served with?
5Suppose your family is going to start a new tea shop or restaurant. Prepare a menu for it, using these clues: name, location, contact details, hot drinks, cold drinks, main courses, snacks, desserts, special thing, opening and closing time.
6Match the sentences with their question tags: (a) Monika is drawing pictures, (b) I have a computer, (c) She isn't my good friend, (d) We should work hard, (e) We must go now, (f) We have never seen a tiger, (g) They don't like coffee, (h) Pujan and Sabu are singing.
7Complete these statements with the correct question tags: (a) I don't need to finish this today. (b) James is working on that. (c) Your parents have retired. (d) The phone didn't ring. (e) It was raining heavily. (f) Your mum hadn't met him before. (g) The bus stop is near here. (h) Hamid will dance in the cultural programme. (i) He doesn't understand Urdu. (j) She is living in a hamlet now.
8Work in pairs. Take turns to ask and answer tag questions from these clues: (a) father/doctor/no/engineer, (b) speak Canadian/no/Korean, (c) type Nepali/yes/faster than English, (d) your computer/no/my brother's, (e) go swimming yesterday/yes/with my little brother, (f) called your parents/no/call now, (g) obey rules in school/yes/you must, (h) must do exercises/yes/to be healthy.
9Rewrite the sentences replacing the underlined words with one of these: breathed a sigh of relief, emerged, stuff, unbearable, pleasant. (a) We spent our holiday in a nice resort. (b) Could you move all this shopping from the table? (c) The atmosphere at work at present is unpleasant for us to experience. (d) I felt very exhausted throughout the day. I felt relieved as soon as I reached home. (e) New business techniques appeared with the developments in science and technology.
10Answer these questions about A Visit to a Market: (a) When did the speaker go to the market? (b) Why was going to the market during a festive season not pleasant for the speaker? (c) Why did the speaker return back to the car before his mother? (d) What made the speaker feel relieved as soon as he got back to the car? (e) How did the mother look when she appeared in front of the car?
11Underline the question tags: (a) He is not your uncle, is he? (b) Rajaram works at an office, doesn't he? (c) One should obey the rules, shouldn't one? (d) Umar, type all these letters, will you? (e) They have a beautiful house in London, don't they? (f) She never works hard, does she? (g) You should obey your teachers, shouldn't you? (h) Let me see it, will you?
12Complete the dialogue between Nira and Niraj with appropriate question tags: You are new to this school...? You've just moved here from Kavre...? It's nice here...? You've a sister...? She is Laura...? She has the same eyes and blonde hair like you...?
13Suppose you went to your nearest market last week. Write an email or a letter to your friend describing your experiences. Include who you went with, what the market place was like, the things you saw and liked, the things you bought, and your feeling about the market.
14Project work: what do you do, and how do question tags come into it?
15Why is the tag for We have never seen a tiger the positive tag have we, when the sentence has no not in it?
16I have a computer takes the tag don't I, but Your parents have retired takes haven't they. Both sentences use have. Why are the tags different?
17How should you prepare before the audio of a listening task plays?