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How long do you suppose they’d go on calling me, ‘Goggles’ if they knew that you were my father?’ (a) Who is the speaker? (b) Who are ‘they’? What would make them stop calling the speaker ‘Goggles’? (c) What do you mean by ‘Goggles’?

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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

How long do you suppose they’d go on calling me, ‘Goggles’ if they knew that you were my father?’

(a) Who is the speaker?

(b) Who are ‘they’? What would make them stop calling the speaker ‘Goggles’?

(c) What do you mean by ‘Goggles’?

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(а) Harold is the speaker.

(b) The fact of his father being a famous boxer would stop them (Harold’s class fellows) from calling him ‘Goggles’.

(c) ‘a pair of glasses.’

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