Quiz on speaker's stance

Speaker's stance and pragmatic understanding quiz
Watch this video and answer the question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FptPNHaMwCo&t=3s

What is speaker's stance?

• The attitudes of the speakers to the topics and how they feel about it.

• The understanding on the ideas from a text that are simple and complex.

• The situation where a person is afraid to expose his or her ideas.

• It's a way to describe a person and his or her routines for everyday.

Choose the best answer according to this dialogue between a man and a woman.

Man: I'm thinking of buying a new Toshiba laptop.
Woman: I bought one a few months ago, and I don't think I'll ever buy another.

• The woman wants to buy another computer, because she doesn't have one. 

• The man wants to give the woman a Toshiba he bought some time ago, but she doesn't want to. 

• The woman is interested in buying a new computer. 

Choose the best answer according to this dialogue between two students, a man and a woman.

Man: Professor Jones is too strict and gives us way too much homework. It takes up all my weekend.
Woman: I know. I went to her office last week and told her directly that she was asking too much of us.
Man: You did what!

• The woman is happy about the amount of homework they are having.  

• The man is surprised that the woman went to the professor's office to talk to her about the amount of homework.

• Both students disagree on the amount of homework the teacher is giving them. 

Choose the best answer according to this dialogue between a student and a professor.

Professor: So you want to drop out of Professor MacLeod's class because you have a part-time job. If you do that, you'll lose credit.
Student: I was hoping to transfer to Professor Green's class. She teaches the same class but on a different day.
Professor: Well, that might be possible.

• The professor is not happy about the student's decision on dropping Professor MacLeod's class.

• The professor agrees with the students on the possibility of changing classes in order to take it on a different day. 

• Both student and professor disagree on the desicion of dropping one class, since the student will lose credits. 

Consider the following conversation:

JENNY: Thanks for watching my dog while I was away! I really appreciate it.

SAM: No problem. Oh, and before I forget, you got an electric bill in the mail, too. It's on the table.

Why does Sam say 'Oh, and before I forget?'

• To show irritation.

• To introduce another subject to the conversation.

• To end the conversation.

What is an inference?

• The behaviour that a character shows.

• The way in which a person acts.

• The process of deriving implied meanings.