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Question
Form groups. Discuss the first two paragraphs. Try to present their content in the form of a series of conversations among the volunteers.
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Solution
Conversations between volunteers
| First Volunteer: | Hey, look here, its like eggshells! I wonder how it is here? |
| Second Volunteer: | Eggshells? Where? Oh, it's there deep in that pit in the sand! |
| Third Volunteer: | I have never seen this before! |
| First Volunteer: | Something unusual. We should ask these villagers. |
| Second Volunteer: | They say that they are turtle eggshells. |
| Third Volunteer: | But we had never come across turtle eggs in our walks along the beaches of Konkan in all these years. |
| First Volunteer: | Let’s have a detailed inquiry about this from villagers. |
| Second Volunteer | That’s right. |
| Third Volunteer: | Let’s go. |
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