Unit Nineteen Wrong Number
"Well, that's a bit odd,' said Sheila.
'What?' I asked.
"That phone call, she replied. 'I don't know who it was. He was talking
about something I couldn't understand, and then he just broke off
in mid-sentence and hung up.'
'Maybe he realised he had mistaken you for someone else,' I pointed
out.
'No doubt something simple lies behind it,' she replied, going
over to the window. 'But doesn't it strike you as a bit odd
that it's the third time this week that it's happened?"
Notes
BREAK OFF E In the middle of his lecture he broke off to drink
some water.
HANG UP E At the end of a telephone conversation you hang up.
MISTAKE FOR BC You can mistake one thing or person for another
e.g. I beg your pardon; I mistook you for my sister."
POINT OUT ABC You point out something to someone who has not seen it.
Exercises using verbs from the passage
A Complete these sentences:
1 I wonder what
his strange behaviour.
2 He
in mid-sentence and stared past my shoulder.
3 She something he had overlooked.
4 If you hadn't been here, I would have
it
a genuine antique.
5 I would never have noticed the fault if you had not
it
to
me.
6 She
before I could apologise.
7 I'm sorry; I
your
umbrella
mine.
8 The fact that there was a dead bird on the doorstep me rather curious.
B Answer these questions:
1 When would you hang up?
2 Does it strike you as odd that there are no detailed photographs of the Loch
Ness Monster?