Q.1.
A well-meaning English host (or hostess) is about to put milk or sugar ~ which you do not want ~ into your tea; what do you say?
Q.2.
Someone is disturbing you, without realising it, by making a small but repeated noise (e.g. tapping a teaspoon on the other side of a table, where you are trying to read or study). What do you say, to encourage them to stop doing this?
Q.3.
In a tense, criminal situation ~ real, or in fiction ~ such as an armed robbery, the last words that someone under threat might say could be :
Q.4.
Pick the answer which best completes the gap/s in good, clear, accurate English. 'In my country, women ... ... drive cars, drink alcohol or vote in elections.'
Q.5.
In a social situation, you are embarrassed by someone 'making a great fuss' over thanking you for something (e.g. a small ornament that you have given them, from your home country, as a 'thank you' for their own help or hospitality). How do you best tell them that you have had enough of their thanks?
Q.6.
Travelling with your English hosts into the city, you spot a road-sign that forbids parking ~ just where they are about to park the car. You may not be confident about the rights and wrongs of this, in what (for you) is a foreign country; but you feel you should say something, rather than letting them get into trouble over the parking. What can you say?
Q.7.
If the parking sign is outside someone's private house, rather than an 'official notice', what would it probably say?
Q.8.
You are trying really hard to persuade an English friend, or business associate, to come and visit your home country. Which of these is the 'toughest' expression that you feel you could use?
Q.9.
When one English person quite casually asks another, 'How's life?' (etc.) and the answer comes, '[I] can't complain / mustn't grumble', what do you think the second speaker really means?
Q.10.
Sadly, in many town and city centres at the weekend, large numbers of young people seem to go and drink a lot of alcohol, and then 'disgrace themselves in public' (by being sick all over the street, getting into trouble with the police, etc.). A more traditional British attitude to such behaviour might typically be: