Subhi (Form 2)

INSTRUCTIONS: Fill in the missing words as they are read to you by your partner and 'dictate' to your partner the words that are printed on your paper. Do not spell. Do not look at your partner's paper.

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_________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ at one of

MONTREAL'S downtown steak houses. (2) _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________

_________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ SUBHI, the chef of the steak house. (3)

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_________________ _________________ . (4) Then I started my work. (5) _________________ _________________

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_________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ and SUBHI talked to me for a while. (6)

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He told me he was one of the best chefs in Montreal steak houses.(8) _________________ _________________

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and owned several apartment buildings in the city. (9) _________________ _________________ _________________

_________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ SUBHI _________________

_________________ _________________ , cooking in a restaurant. (10) _________________ _________________

_________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ ,

_________________ _________________ , “You might wonder what a rich man like me is doing here,_________________

_________________ _________________ _________________ . Well, I work here because I love this job _________________

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_________________ .” (11) Going home after my first day of work, _________________ _________________ _________________

_________________ _________________ who had been at the restaurant for several years. (12) _________________

_________________ _________________ _________________ SUBHI and he told me he was the sort of person

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_________________ _________________ _________________ . (13) He was insecure and he was a day-dreamer. (14)

_________________ , _________________ _________________ _________________ , I’ve heard that SUBHI is still doing the same

job in the same place _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________

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- based on a story by ESL student, Mahmoud Saddho (about 1985)