- Communicative Objective: Learn to explain complex ideas clearly, reformulate information, provide clarification, and check whether listeners have understood the intended meaning.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- What I mean is that the problem is caused by several factors rather than a single issue.
- To put it another way, we need to change the process instead of simply increasing the budget.
- Let me clarify what I meant by saying that the system needs to be more flexible.
- The key point is that these two issues are related, even though they may appear separate.
- Does that explanation make sense, or would you like me to give a more specific example?
- Grammar Focus: Cleft structures with what; reformulation expressions; embedded questions; contrast clauses; gerunds and infinitives following reporting and explanatory expressions.
- Vocabulary Focus: clarify, reformulate, factor, specific, distinguish
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