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Task D – Knowledge about language and of communicative conventions

Part 1 - We have knowledge about the meanings of words.

Let’s assume that we are told that someone is a bachelor. Which of the statements below about that person are true, which untrue, which likely and which unlikely?

	True	False	Likely	Unlikely
The person is male.
The person is female.
The person has a wife.
The person has a husband.
The person is thirteen years old.
The person is thirty years old.
The person is a father.
The person is a mother.
The person favourite drink is beer.
The person’s favourite drink is white wine.

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