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“They might take you on for eight days, Madame. That would mean eight hundred francs. It’s really money for nothing. You would have to peel potatoes one minute and make an omlette the next, quite easy.” (a) Who would take and whom for eight days? ...

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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:

“They might take you on for eight days, Madame. That would mean eight hundred francs. It’s really money for nothing. You would have to peel potatoes one minute and make an omlette the next, quite easy.”

(a) Who would take and whom for eight days?

(b) What would working for eight days mean?

(c) Why would she have to peel potatoes and make an omlette?

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(a) The people at the Joinville Studio could employ Juliette for eight days for the role of a cook in a film.

(b) Working for eight days would mean a cool eight hundred francs.

(c) She would have to peel potatoes and make an omlette as her role as a cook in the film demanded it.

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