How good is your understanding of the form, use and phonological features occurring in various structures and lexical items? What problems might they cause for students? Test your understanding with this activity - and then check your answers against those on this page There are nineteen items to analyse - try doing one or two a day over a period of time.
The
following is an extract from Haraki Murakami's novel, IQ84 (p.801).
Tengo
opened the refrigerator to see
if he had any chilled white
wine. In back,
he found a bottle of Chardonnay he had recently bought on sale. The label
had a picture of a wild boar. He pulled the cork, poured some into a
wineglass, and placed it before Kuka-Eri. After some hesitation,
he poured himself a
glass as well.
He was definitely more in
the mood for wine than coffee.
It was a bit too chilled, and a
bit too sweet,
but the alcohol calmed Tengo's nerves somewhat.
