Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.3 - Magic bullet for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the phrases for informal turn-taking. Listen again and tick the ones the speakers use.
  2. Listen to two extracts from the conversation. In which one does the person interrupt by using a) a more forceful tone of voice b) a higher intonation?

Answer

a)

  • Anyway ...
  • As I was saying ...
  • To get back to what I was saying before ...
  • Going back to ...
  • That reminds me of ...
  • Actually, that's like ...
  • Funny you should mention that ...
  • I feel the same way about ...
  • I just want to add ...

b)

  1. 2
  2. 1