Functional Language and Everyday Conversation notes

Functional Language and Everyday Conversation notes

These notes bring together examples of everyday English in different situations. They include an introductory conversation, a restaurant dialogue with gaps to fill, directions, and phrases for inviting someone and responding. Other notes cover sympathy, public transport and making an appointment.

Start with a conversation

Try Where are you from? first for a short exchange between people meeting at a club. Read each line aloud, then cover one speaker’s lines and practice a response. For a more active task, At the restaurant asks you to fill gaps in a dialogue.

Move to Inviting, accepting & refusing to compare ways of responding to an invitation. You could make a short exchange using those phrases, then return to the notes to check it. If you want to test recall or practice individual phrases, switch to a quiz or flashcards on the unit page. Choose a note and give its conversation a try.