Students Worksheet

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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
Awesome !
WOW !

Thats crazy !

Great!

Great idea!

Thats amazing !

You know what . ?

SURPRISE / DISBELIEF
Really ?

Seriously ?

Are you kidding ?

Are you kidding me ?

I cant believe it!

What ?

Youre not serious, are you ?

How crazy!

Youre pulling my leg!

WOW!

You must be kidding !

I cant believe my eyes!

How stupid / silly !

you?

You cant be serious !

Is that a joke ?

Unbelievable!

Incredible!

Youre joking, arent you?

Come on, you cant be serious!

I cant believe you!

Youre lying, arent

Youre laughing at me!

DISAPPOINTMENT
Never mind !

What a shame !

Too bad!

Such a shame !

ANNOYANCE
Here we go again !

Stop it, will you ?

Stop telling nonsense !

How dumb you are !

Stop being

so pessimistic!

What a crazy thing to do!

Get off my back!

Youre a pain !
ADMIRATION
So proud of you !
else!

You can be proud of yourself !

You are something
How brave !
What great plans! How exciting !

 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 , isnt it ?

Its only one year , isnt it ?
Shes too young for the experience , isnt she ?
Youre not kidding me , are you ?
We can speak again this evening , cant we ?
She cant be serious, can she ?
Lets think about it , shall we ?
Dont be stupid , will you ?

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

Exprimer son accord

Exprimer son dsaccord

To my mind

Thats true.

I think youre wrong!

In my opinion .

Exactly!

I dont agree. (with)

I think ...

Absolutely!

I disagree with you.

I feel ...
I believe ...
I guess
Dont you think that ?
Dont forget that

Couper poliment la parole

Sorry to interrupt you, but

.
Hang on ! (familiar).

Excuse me but ...

I quite agree with you on I dont see it that way.
Can I just say
this point.
Certainly not !
something?
Thats quite right.
Nonsense!
I couldnt agree more.
I quite share your view

As for me
As far as Im
concerned
Organiser et rsumer ses ides

Donner des exemples, reformuler,

expliquer

First of all
For example .
secondly then .
For instance .
In other words
Let me give you an
On the whole
example .
On the one hand
on the other hand
To sum up, Id say

Ill explain it to you.

We could also say

Demander des claircissements

Attnuer son point de vue, concder

Say that again.

You may be right , but.

Sorry, I didnt get

that.

Thats all very well but

It may be true, but

I didnt get your point

I suppose youre right ,
.
but
What exactly do you
In a way
mean ?.
To some extent.
Can you repeat what
you said, please?