Week 12

A. What would you do if you had an extra day?

 

After watching this video, please respond the following questions:

1. What is this video about? Setting, characters, environment, storyline.  Summarize it in 2-3 minutes
2. List the activities that the characters discuss doing if they had an extra day
3. What activities did the characters say they would like to do but they couldn't do?
4. Now it is your turn, what would you do if you had an extra day?  Write a short but detailed essay describing the thing that you would like to do alone, the ones you would do with your family and then ones that you would like to do with friends IF you had an extra day a week

B. Phrasal Verbs with Make

Open up the following doc to review the most important phrasal verbs with MAKE

C. How to express lack of understanding

When you fail to understand what has been said to you you can use these expressions:

• I beg your pardon?
• I beg your pardon, but I don't quite understand.
• I'm not quite sure I know what you mean.
• I'm not quite sure I follow you.
• I don't quite see what you mean.
• I'm not sure I got your point.
• Sorry, I didn't quite hear what you said.
• Sorry, I didn't get your point.
• I don't quite see what you're getting at.

How yo ask for clarification

When you don't understand what someone has said, you can ask for clarification using the following expressions:

• What do you mean by...?
• Do you mean...?
• Could you say that again, please?
• Could you repeat please?
• Could you clarify that, please?
• Would you elaborate on that , please?
• Could you be more explicit?
• Could you explain what you mean by...?
• Could you give us an example?
• I wonder if you could say that in a different way.
• Could you put it differently, please?
• Could you be more specific, please?

Clarifying one's point or idea

To clarify your idea you can use the following expressions:

• Let me explain that...
• Let me explain that in more detail...
• Let me put it in another way...
• Sorry, let me explain...
• In other words...
• To say this differently...
• To put it differently...