1.- 9/3/7/6/1/8/4/2/5
2.- 1-E 2-G
3-B 4-K 5-D
6-A 7-J 8-C
9-H 10-E 11-I
3.- a) In Jamaica.
b) At the swimming-pool of a hotel.
c) ‘’bar’’, ‘’pool’’, ‘’fine garden with lawns
and beds of azaleas and tall coconut palms ‘’, ‘’deck chairs’’, ‘’white tables’’,
‘’coloured umbrellas’’.
d) At six o’clock pm.
e) Summer
f) It’s sunny, windy and warm.
g) A peaceful, pleasant and relaxing mood.
4.- The exposition. The action begins, the stage is
set, the background is given and the characters are presented.
5.- a) The old man, the narrator, the
British girl and the American boy – 4.
b) The old man. He is the main character, he will
have the central role in the story.
c) He is ‘’immaculately dressed… each step’’; He
is ‘’small, oldish man’’; He ‘’had on a large creamy Panama hot’’; His teeth
were ‘’very small, uneven teeth, slightly tarnished’’; He wears ‘’white
buckskin shoes’’; His acent is Italian or Spanish; He is ‘’probably around
sixty-eight or seventy’’.
6.- a) The narrator. It is a first person
narrative.
b) Yes, he does.
c) No, he doesn’t. He presents the place and the
people as the action happens.
d) Yes, we do.
7.- a) The spelling of some words is
different because of the old man’s pronunciation.
b) pless-please / dey-they / de-the / dat-that /
dese-these / ‘’you are not American, are you?’’
c) The old man is not a native English speaken.
d) He doesn’t like americans.
