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Students Worksheet

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 . Ils sont interrogatifs. Ils correspondent au 'n'est-ce pas'
franais. Veiller respecter la ponctuation :
, ?

Si la phrase est affirmative, le question tag est .

Si la phrase est , 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 ou dans le question tag.
Si le verbe de la phrase est au , on utilise DID dans le question tag.
Avec les modaux, les mmes rgles s'appliquent.
Dans le cas de Lets ,
Dans le cas de Dont ,

le tag se construit avec

we ? .

le tag se construit you ? .

Its an incredible experience , ?

Its only one year , ?
Shes too young for the experience , ?
We dont need to worry , .. ?
The campaign was quite tough, ?
Hillary didnt win the election , ?
Wannabe candidates work hard on the election , ?
Youre not kidding me , ?
We can speak again this evening , ?
She cant be serious, ?
Lets go and register , . ?
Dont be stupid , .. ?

 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 ...

You may be right , but.

First of all secondly

then .

For example / For

instance .

Say that again.

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! / Stop
telling nonsense!

Dont you think that ?

I couldnt agree more.

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.

On the one hand on the other hand

We could also say

As far as Im concerned ...

Let me give you an example .

I quite agree with you on this point.

I think....

Thats all very well but

As for me

I believe / I believe so

Can you repeat what you

said, please?

I suppose youre right , but