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Asking for Clarification and Checking Understanding

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to manage communication problems by asking for repetition, clarification, examples, and confirmation.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. Could you explain what you mean by that?
    2. Sorry, I did not quite understand the last part.
    3. Could you give me an example so that I can understand it better?
    4. Do you mean that we need to complete everything today?
    5. If I understand correctly, the meeting has been moved to Thursday.
  • Grammar Focus: Indirect questions, clarification expressions, and if-clauses for checking understanding
  • Vocabulary Focus: clarify, repeat, confirm, explanation, misunderstanding
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