Welcome to the English we speak with me, Phil and me Faye We have an expression that is about showing people how to do things or explaining something to them

It's walk someone through.

Walk someone through.

When would you use this?

It's most commonly used at work.

It means to guide, explain or practice something step by step. So if there's something new and you

don't know how to do it, you need someone to walk you through it.

I remember when you started working here we had to walk you

through everything. Luckily it's all on computers so there wasn't much actual

walking at all. No it's not really about walking, it's about doing

everything slowly and carefully one step at a time together with someone else.

We often use it with different processes. As you were saying,

it's very common for when someone starts a new job.

Well, until you walk someone through something, they never really understand it properly.

It's good to look at each step in turn.

True.

As well as processes, it can also be used more generally to mean explain something carefully.

Listen to these examples.

We need to produce this report every week.

Don't worry, I can walk you through it.

There's a lot of information here, but I can walk you through what it all means.

It's going to be a really busy event, but I can walk you through what's going to happen.

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