Situation 16:

Homework(When Robert gets home he sits down at the

kichen table,opens his backpack,and starts to do his homework.)

Mom,my homework is a little bit hard today.

Can you help me?

Sure. I’d be happy to help you.But I won’t do your homework for you.

Don’t worry.I’ll only ask you when I have a really difficult problem.(After about one half

hour,Robert comes to a difficult problem)Mom, can you help me now?

Of course.What’s the problem?

I don’t know where Samoa is.

Okay. We can do this in two ways.We can look it up in a dictionary,

or we can find it on the internet.Which do you think will be more interesting?

The internet!

And which do you think will have more information?

The internet!

Well, we whould go to the computer.

Cool!I didn’t know homework could be so fun.(They go into Robert’s

room and turns on his computer.)

Now, click on search and then type in "Samoa".(Robert does this and

many pages of information appear. )

Wow. I can write a whole report now.

Yes,but don’t copy it.have to write it in your own words or it is cheating.

Okay, mom.And thanks,you’re the best.

And don’t play any computer games.Just do your homework.

Mom,you don’t have to say that.I really want to study hard.

I know.But I’m your mother.It’s my job to say things like that.