273. The Bad Haircut Situation Part 2: More Role Plays & Improvisations (with Amber & Paul)

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🗓️ 24 May 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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(Longest title ever?) In the last episode, Amber, Paul and I talked about giving compliments, sharing bad news, and generally saying negative things in a careful and diplomatic way. We then did a couple of role play improvisations to help you notice specific language. In this episode we continue with the improvisations and some language feedback. You can see some samples of the language used in those improvisations by clicking here http://wp.me/p4IuUx-3uQ Enjoy!

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information visit teacher Luke.co.uk.
0:07.0	Hello ladies and gents, welcome to Luke's English podcast this is part two of a two-part episode in this one
0:16.4	We're looking at ways of delivering bad news or saying negative things in English we're considering the cultural and linguistic aspects
0:26.6	of this rather tricky area. If you have to deliver bad news, if you've got to say
0:31.2	something negative, maybe you did something terribly wrong and it's your fault and you've got to try and explain it.
0:37.0	Maybe you've got some bad news to deliver to someone.
0:40.0	How do you do it? What are the different bits of language that you need to use to do that?
0:44.9	And also, what are the differences in culture? How do we do these things in England, in English?
0:50.8	And are those things different to the way that the way the work the way that you deal with them in your languages and in your cultures.
0:59.0	Okay, how to give bad news or how to be polite and diplomatic in English. That's the subject of this
1:05.8	episode. And we carry on with part two here and at this point I'm talking to my friends Amber and Paul and we're going through a few
1:16.2	role plays or improvisations. We've got some situations in which we have to deliver bad news or explain difficult things and I'd like you to listen to the language which is being used
1:27.6	Okay, so listen very carefully to the situations and try and identify
1:36.9	Some of the tentative language, some of the ways in which statements are qualified using specific words, it's quite revealing.
1:41.9	If you want to get more discussion on this topic in general,
1:45.4	then you can just go to the previous episode of this podcast. But now let's carry on
1:49.7	with some of these role plays and improvisations.
1:54.0	And let's get started right now.
1:56.3	Here we go.
1:57.3	It's your turn, Luke, to be the bare of bad news.
2:02.0	My turn. OK, how about this bare of bad news. My turn.
2:03.0	Okay, how about this one?
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