Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 108 – Speaking Skill – Making Repairs

The bottomline is everyone makes mistakes, including myself. I’ve stumble dover my words and used incorrect grammar a number of times, and that will continue…why? I’m hum. So, if you realize you have made an error or someone else points out a problem with something you’ve said, you can use an expressions such as I mean…, sorry, uh, oh, or um. Then correct the error.

This newspaper is an interesting article — uh, it has a very interesting article.

1. Do you mind giving me a hand?

• Yes, I…I ____________,no, I don’t mind at all. What would you like me to do?

2. Could you help me move this armchair, __________________, this couch?

• Oh right! What a …….._____________, I can see why you need help!

Practice the conversation with a partner. The words in bold are wrong. Say the mistakes and repair them, using an expression from above.

• Have you see this story in the paper?
• No. What it about?
• It’s about a survey. They asked kids what they would like to be when they grow up. And the top answer were “famous”
• Wo, that’s depressed.
• I know. When I was a kid I want to be a teacher or a doctor.
• Well, I guess TV have really changed people’s needs and values.

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