speaking activity: focus on functions invitations apologizing agreeing and disagreeing
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Speaking activity:Focus on functions
• Invitations
• Apologizing
• Agreeing and disagreeing
Invitations
• Making an invitation
• Accepting
• Refusing
• Offering to bring something and respond
Making an invitation
• I’d like to invite you to dinner this Saturday.
• I was wondering if you’d like to…• We are going to have a few friends over
on Monday, and we’d love you to come.• Are you free on Saturday? Would you like
to…• How about dinner?• Let’s go to our place for a beer.
Accepting
• Thank you. I’d love to.
• That would be wonderful.
• Mmm, that’s a great idea.
• Yes, thank you. What time?
• Sounds great!
• OK/ Alright.
refusing
• I’m awfully sorry, but I have another plans.
• I wish I could, but…
• I’d really like to, but…
• Sorry, I’ve already made plans for Saturday.
• Oh darn! Have to…
Offering to bring something and respond
Offering:I wonder if I might be able to bring something?Let me bring something, won’t you?Is there anything I could bring?What shall I bring?Can I bring the wine?Respond:It’s enough just to have you come.Oh, you don’t need to.Just bring yourself.Well, thankx, if you’d like to.
Apologizing
Usually, you apologize if you have violated a social rule or have done something that hurts on inconveniences another person. The function of the apology is to show regret for the wrongdoing and to offer an explanation or a remedy.
• Apology
• Response
Apology
• Forgive me. I’m terribly sorry about…
• Please accept my apologies for…
• I would like to apologize for…
• I apologize for…
• I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…
• Oh no! Did I do that? I’m sorry!
• Sorry about that.
response
• That’s quite alright.• I understand completely• You don’t need to apologize.• Oh that’s alright. It can happen to anyone.• Oh, well, that’s life.• Don’t worry about that.• Forget it.• It’s OK.
Agreeing and disagreeing
• Complete agreement
• Indirect disagreement
• Direct disagreement
Complete agreement
• I agree completely…
• That’s just what I think, of course.
• In my opinion, you are correct.
• I couldn’t agree more.
• You’re right.
• Sure.
Indirect disagreement
• I’m not sure I can agree.
• I wonder if there’s a mistake.
• In my opinion,…
• Are you absolutely sure?
• I may be wrong, but…
• Really?
• Oh, I don’t know.
Direct disagreement
• I’m sorry, but I have to disagree.
• I couldn’t agree less.
• I refuse to believe that…
• No, that’s wrong.
• You’re dead wrong.
• No way!