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25.3 Possible answers
BWN In my opinion the club needs to buy new players.
Personally I don’t think you can learn a language in three months.
eR
Yes, I agree with you.

mA The newspaper says that terrorists started the fire.
I partly agree with her.
23 4 Possible answers
1 Yeah maybe, but I think there are lots of women who don’t want to do that.
2 Yes I agree to some extent, but how do you decide if someone doesn’t want to work?
3 Yes, I think you’re right.
4 You could be right but don’t you think that more people would take drugs if we did that?
5 Yes | agree to a large extent — it can lead to a lot of conflict between countries.

Unit 26
26.4 1 Happy Christmas or Merry Christmas
2 Happy Birthday (or Many Happy Returns)
3 Happy New Year
4 Congratulations
5 Good luck
6 See you soon

hwN Bless you
26.2 eS How do you do?; How do you do?
Have a nice/good weekend; Yes, same to you.
Cheers; Cheers
263 — ‘Excuse me’ is enough here, but you could add a little more, e.g. ‘Excuse me for one moment’
or ‘Excuse me. I won’t be long’.
2 Sorry? (with rising intonation)
3 Goodbye. Nice to meet you. / Nice to have met you.
4 Excuse me.
5 Goodnight. (See you in the morning / tomorrow.)
6 Excuse me. (You would probably add something like ‘I think you’ve dropped something’.)
7 Congratulations
8 Good luck
26.4 We use ‘hard luck’ to someone who has just failed in something, e.g. failed an exam
We ask people to ‘say cheese’ when we are about to take a picture of them.
We say ‘watch out’ as a warning e.g. to warn someone crossing a road that a cyclist is right
behind them and could hit them if they aren’t careful.
We say ‘I beg your pardon’ in many situations when we also say ‘sorry’ €.g. you step on someone’s
foot; you interrupt someone. It is more formal.
We say ‘I’ve no idea’ to show that we definitely do not know the answer to something; in some
cases we say it because we are annoyed at being asked the question.

Unit 27
NH We had lovely weather.
fol I need some information.
BW The furniture is very old.
I’m looking for a new pair of jeans. or I’m looking for some new jeans.
Rm Your hair is getting very long.
Do you have any scissors? or Do you have a pair of scissors?

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