Pragmatics -- Real life interaction

Learning the kind of expressions people usually say in any given social situation so that you sound natural and fluent is certainly not an easy task.

However, we cannot be happy with using just one way of giving suggestions, offerings, refusals, agreement and the like. Having a certain variety of expression really makes a difference when you face the interaction part of your oral exam. I link next some resources you should explore.

You'll find the Life skills series by McMillan to be very useful; keep an eye out for their new posts:

Offerings

Suggestions

Uncertainty

Not knowing

And here you'll find some more:

Useful expressions for different communicative functions

Useful expressions for your speaking exam

All the "Task" pages in your book do also have some "useful language" boxes which you should get familiar with.

Feel free to post comments with any other resources you think could be useful! Maybe we can develop these notes into a full repository :)