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09/02/2021 6:32 pm
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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
I tell you what I will do. I will be philanthropic and let you have it for two hundred thousand.
(a) Who is telling whom?
(b) Why does the speaker claim to be philanthropic?
(c) Is the speaker really trying to be philanthropic? Give an example from the text.
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09/02/2021 6:33 pm
(a) Juliette, owner of the villa, is talking to Mr. Gaston.
(b) The speaker claims to be philanthropic as she is ‘sacrificing’ the villa at a throwaway price just to help Mr. Gaston and Jeanne.
(c) No, the speaker has no intention to be philanthropic. She is a perfect saleswoman who doesn’t want to sell the villa not even a franc less than two hundred thousand.