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old hankies my Le Creuset in saucepan, nearly burned the housedown.I can'ttell you howdisgusting is.'Ravi's he voicerose.'He strains tea through fly-swats, his the he never a finger help,he dropsbiscuit lifts to crumbs everywhere, I cân'tstand him,I can'tget any sleep,Pauline and I are quarrelling the time,sooner laterI'm all or going haveto moveout,I can'tstandit anymore,I thinkl'm cracking to up'.
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presentin the scene. a) Listthe characters Ravi, Sonny, the waiter and two men b) Among them, identify main characters. the Ravi and Sonny jobs? (10 words maximum.) c) What are their respective Ravi is a doctor/a male nurse/works in a hospitar. sonny is a b usiness m an/a trav eIIi ng b usrness m an/a b uslness trave IIer d) How are they related? wordsmax.) (5 They are cousins

2 . a) ln which city does the scenetake place?(10 words max.)
The scene fakes place in London b) Explainin your own wordsthe reasons why the main characters in this are city.(15 - 20 words) Ravi probably lives or works in London whereas Sonny is there for a few days for business (on his way to Frankfurt) c) where are they exactlyand what are they doingthere?(1s-20words) They are meeting in the lobby of the Royal Thisile Hotel, Bayswater. They are talking while having a drink Focus on the passage from line 1 to line 27. The narrator porlraysSonnythroughRavi'seyes. 3. What can the readerdeduceaboutSonny'sphysicalappearance the past? in Answerin your own words usingelements from this passage.(25 wordsmax.) Sonny was probably/must have been thinner/slimmer, physically very fit and attractive as Ravi