Showing interest
Do the preparation exercise first. Then watch the video and do the exercises to check your understanding and practise the language.
Preparation
Transcript
Ana: Hi! I'm Ana. Welcome to What to Say!
Do you know what to say when you want to show interest? Listen out for useful language for showing interest. Then, we'll practise saying the new phrases – after this.
Noelia: Morning, Bob.
Bob: Oh, good morning.
Noelia: It's so rainy today. The weather in this country is horrible!
Bob: Yes … yes … The weather was even worse when I lived in Canada.
Noelia: Oh, I didn't know that you lived in Canada, Bob. How cool!
Bob: One winter it was so cold and windy that I fell on the ice and broke my leg in three places.
Noelia: Oh no! You're joking!
Bob: I wish I was, Noelia, I wish I was. I was never the same after that winter. And my leg is still bad today.
Noelia: Really? I'm sorry to hear that. Poor you.
Bob: But it's not all bad. I met my wife in the hospital. She was the doctor who looked at my leg!
Noelia: No way!
Bob: It was love at first sight!
Noelia: Ah, that's brilliant!
Bob: Yes, and we're still in love 40 years later …
Noelia: So in the end, breaking your leg was the best thing that could have happened.
Bob: Yes, I suppose it was!
Ana: Hello again! Aww, I love a story with a happy ending! So, did you notice the useful phrases used for showing interest? Listen to me and then repeat.
Oh, I didn't know that you lived in Canada!
How cool!
Oh no, poor you.
You're joking!
Really?
I'm sorry to hear that.
No way!
That's brilliant!
Ana: Try and use some of these phrases the next time you want to show interest in English. Bye for now!
Have you ever broken an arm or a leg? What happened?
Amm, let me remember! no and all the praise and all the thank for Allah. I always ask Allah to keep me in fine.
fortunately no, mi nouse is the unique that broken my and was my doctor becasuse I wanted a perfect nouse jajaj
I’ve never broken both my legs and arms. But I have scars on each of my knees which I got when I ran after the minibus as a kid.
Yes. I broke my leg when i fell of my bike
Yes sure, I was an accident with my legs in 2000. It made me so hurt.
Hello, I'm lucky because I never broke my leg or arm, but when I was child I have a lot of bruises. But now with me everything is fine.
In 2016, I broke my little finger of right foot, since then, specially in winter, fell some pain.
Hugs directly from São Paulo-Brazil.
I haven't broken either hands or legs. I'm a lucky woman so far.
I have never broken either leg or arm, but i got leg burns when I was a child. I still have it nowadays.
Yes. I broke my leg when I was a child more precisely at the age of 8 years. It was afraid and horrible. When I tried to remember that moment I felt it was very hurt and painful. The accident happened when I was playing football in my countryside and I fell on the field due to my friend wanted to take the ball from me. but today I am very good and already started a new life again.