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Listen to some useful expressions you may use in conversational English.

Decide whether they express excitement, surprise, disbelief , disappointment , annoyance or admiration.

EXCITEMENT / ENTHUSIASM

SURPRISE / DISBELIEF

DISAPPOINTMENT

ANNOYANCE

ADMIRATION

 Put a question-tag at the end of these sentences.

Les question tags se placent en fin de phrase. Ils sont interrogatifs. Ils correspondent au 'n'est-ce pas' franais.
Veiller respecter la ponctuation :
, ?

Si la phrase est affirmative, le question tag est ngatif.

Si la phrase est ngative, le question tag est affirmatif.

Si la phrase contient un auxiliaire, on le reprend au mme temps dans le question tag.
Si le verbe de la phrase est au prsent, on utilise DO dans le question tag.
Si le verbe de la phrase est au prtrit, on utilise DID dans le question tag.
Avec les modaux, les mmes rgles s'appliquent.
Dans le cas de Lets , le tag se construit avec shall we ? .
Dans le cas de Dont , le tag se construit will you ? .

Its an incredible experience , ?

Its only one year , ?
Shes too young for the experience , ?
Youre not kidding me , ?
We can speak again this evening , ?
She cant be serious, ?
Lets think about it , . ?
Dont be stupid , .. ?
They took a year off in Trang, ?

 Here are some useful expressions to help you interact with someone. Rewrite the
expressions below under the corresponding columns.
Donner son opinion

Organiser et rsumer ses ides

Exprimer son accord

Donner des exemples, reformuler,

expliquer

Exprimer son dsaccord

Demander des claircissements

Couper poliment la parole

Attnuer son point de vue, concder

Sorry, I didnt get that.

To my mind

I dont agree. / I disagree

with you.

Excuse me but ...

Say that again.

You may be right , but.

First of all secondly
then .

For example / For

instance .

Thats quite right.

I think youre wrong!

Hang on ! (familiar).
What exactly do you mean ?.

On the whole

I feel ...

In a way / To some extent.

Nonsense!
I couldnt agree more.

Dont you think that ?

Certainly not !
Sorry to interrupt you, but .

It may be true, but

In other words

I dont see it that way.

Ill explain it to you.

Thats true. / Exactly!/ Absolutely!
I didnt get your point .

To sum up, Id say

In my opinion .
I guess

Can I just say something?

I quite share your view.

Let me give you an example .

On the one hand on the other hand

We could also say

I quite agree with you on this point.

I think....

Thats all very well but

I believe

Can you repeat what you

said, please?

I suppose youre right , but