Common Daily Expressions - English Listening & Speaking Practice

Hello and welcome everyone. This is Minoo at Anglo-Link.

Today we're going to revise and practise some common daily expressions to help you with your fluency.

You will have already seen some of these expressions in an earlier conversation video

called 'Introductions & Greetings'.

And I have added some new expressions for you to practise too.

You can use this video both for listening and speaking practice.

If you want to use it for listening practice, have some paper and a pen ready.

Start the video, and listen to the first sentence, which I will read for you twice.

Pause the video, and write down what you've heard.

Then resume the video, and the sentence will appear on your screen.

Compare what you've written down with what you see on the screen.

And notice if you have missed any of the small sounds.

Like contractions, weak forms or phonetic links.

We looked at these specific sound patterns in an earlier video

called 'How to improve your listen comprehension'.

If you haven't watched that video yet, I recommend you watch that first and then come back to this listening exercise.

Now, when you have written all of the sentences down and you have checked them,

you can then use this video for pronunciation and fluency practice.

Replay the video, and this time, just listen and repeat each sentence twice.

Make sure that this time you don't use your paper.

Put your paper away, and just focus on listening and repeating.

And pay particular attention to your pronunciation.

By the end of this video you will have practiced and memorised these useful daily expressions.

And you will be able to hear them easily and use them fluently when you speak.

So. When you're ready, we can begin!