Read dialogue (A), and answer the following eight questions. 1 A: Nice day. 2 B: Yes, a bit warmer than yesterday, isn’t it? 3 A: That’s right – one day fine, the next cooler. 4 B: I expect it might get cooler again tomorrow. 5 A: Maybe – you never know what to expect, do you? 6 B: No. Have you been away on holiday? 7 A: Yes, we went to Spain. 8 B: Did you? We’re going to France next month. 9 A: Oh. Are you? That’ll be nice for the family. Do they speak French? 10 B: Sheila’s quite good at it, and we’re hoping Martin will improve. 11 A: I expect he will. I do hope you have a good time. 12 B: Thank you. By the way, has the 42 bus gone by yet? It seems to be late. 13 A: No. I’ve been here since eight o’clock and I haven’t seen it. 14 B: Good. I don’t want to be late for work. What time is it now? 15 A: Twenty-five pasteight. 1. Does speaker A tell speaker B anything he doesn’t already know in lines 1, 3, and 5? 2. Does A’s statement in line 7 give B any new information? 3. When B says ‘Did you?’ in line 8, is he really asking A to tell him whether he (A) went to Spain? 4. Is there any indication that A needs to know the information that B gives him about travelling to France? 5. Does A’s ‘That’ll be nice for the family’ in line 9 give B any information? 6. Do A’s statements in lines 13 and 15 give B any information that he (B) needs? 7. At what point does this conversation switch from an exchange of uninformative statements to an exchange of informative statements? 8. At what point does the information exchanged begin to be of a sort that one of the speakers actually needs for some purpose in going about his everyday business?