- Communicative Objective: Develop the ability to respond fluently to unexpected or difficult questions, organize an immediate response, qualify assumptions, and maintain control of complex spoken interaction.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- That is an important question, although I think we need to distinguish between the short-term consequences and the longer-term implications.
- If I understand the question correctly, you are asking whether the benefits justify the additional cost.
- I would hesitate to give a categorical answer without knowing more about the circumstances involved.
- What can be said with reasonable confidence is that the current approach is unlikely to remain sustainable indefinitely.
- Were I required to make a decision on the basis of the information currently available, I would favor a gradual rather than an immediate transition.
- Grammar Focus: Conditional inversion, embedded questions, cleft structures, hedging, complex infinitive complementation, and hypothetical stance expressions.
- Vocabulary Focus: categorical, sustainable, implication, transition, indefinitely
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