Learn Some Social Language
Task 1. Listen to some phrases essential to ask and answer questions in a proper way and repeat them after the announcer.
Task 2. Read and learn these phrases.
Questions:
- Excuse me, where ...?
- Excuse me, do you happen to know who ...?
- Would you mind telling me why ...?
- This may sound a stupid question, but I'd like to know ...
- Something else I'd like to know is ...
- What do you think of ...?
- Can you help me, I wonder when ...
Answers:
- Certainly. (Sure)
- I can't tell you exactly, but ...
- I can't tell you off-hand, I'm afrid, ...
- Let me think for a moment ...
- Well, let me see ...
- I'm not very sure, I'll have to find out ...
- That's a very interesting question.
- I'm not really sure.
- I have no idea, I'm afraid.
- I'd rather not answer that. Sorry. (If you don't mind)