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25 Smart Sentences for Daily Use in English Conversation | Improve English Conversation Skills - YouTube
Channel: English with Lucy
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hello everyone and welcome back to
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today i am going to bring you 25
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sentences for daily conversational use
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when we have conversations we often use
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the same sentences
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again and again and again so i've got
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some alternatives for you
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some new smart sentences that you may
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not have heard before
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but they're definitely ones that we use
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a lot especially in the uk
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and around the world as well before we
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firstly let's discuss the phrases we can
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use
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when we meet someone that we either do
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or
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do not know these are different
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situations the first phrase
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it's nice to bump into you it's nice to
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bump into you
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now if you don't know someone you can
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say it's nice to bump into you
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and if you do know someone you've met
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them before you can say
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it's nice to bump into you again another
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time
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now the literal meaning of to bump
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into someone is to collide i bumped into
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someone at the supermarket and dropped
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my
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water for example however in this
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instance
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to bump into someone means to meet
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someone unexpectedly
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for example i might say i bumped into
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your mum at the swimming pool
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i unexpectedly met your mum
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now the next one number two is a phrase
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that we would use
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if we don't know someone we haven't met
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them before
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but we have maybe heard of them before
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or we have communicated with them
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digitally maybe we've been talking over
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email something like that
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it is it's great to finally meet you in
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person
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it's great to finally meet you in person
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i say this all the time when i meet
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other youtubers people that i've seen
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online
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and then i go to a youtube event ah it's
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so nice to finally meet them in person
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now number three is speak of the devil
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speak of the devil and this has a very
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specific usage
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this is said when a person appears
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just after being mentioned for example
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if i'm talking to a colleague
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about someone's excellent presentation
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and then that person appears
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i could say speak of the devil we were
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just talking about your excellent
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presentation
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this can be a great way to make someone
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new feel
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included especially if you have been
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complimenting them
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behind their back number four another
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one to use
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if you haven't met someone before but
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you want to pay them a nice compliment
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you can say i've heard so much about you
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i've heard so much about you
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and a really good response to this is
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all good things i hope
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all good things i hope or all positive i
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hope
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and the last one number five this is a
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nice way of saying
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i don't know who you are so please
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introduce yourself to me
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it is i don't think we've crossed paths
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before
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i don't think we've crossed paths before
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to cross paths
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is to meet someone by chance um and if
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we haven't crossed paths before well
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we've never met
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but i think it's a little bit nicer than
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saying who are you
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i don't know who you are ah i don't
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think we've crossed paths
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okay next section let's say for now
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that you have met someone that you do
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know
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you're going to want to catch up with
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them and to catch up with someone
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is to talk about everything that's
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happened
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since you last saw each other so we have
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number six
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which is how is everything going how is
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everything going
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if you can't specifically remember what
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they've been doing
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how is everything going is a great way
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to let them lead the conversation
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it gives them room to open up this might
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refer to their family
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their work their personal life romantic
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life
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who knows but you can let them lead the
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conversation
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because they decide what everything is
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we also have number seven which is
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what have you been up to what have you
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been up to this is a really friendly
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phrase
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i've used this before i've taught it
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before in my
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stop saying how are you video if you are
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up to something
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it means that you are doing something
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mischievous you know you're
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doing something troublesome this phrase
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is very warm and friendly it's saying
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you know what trouble have you been
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causing what have you been doing
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it's something that we use a lot with
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children or with animals i often say to
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my dog
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what have you been up to diego because i
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know he's been doing something
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mischievous
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but now we use it with friends as well
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it's very casual
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but it's not inappropriate for
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professional situations
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if you know the person quite well what
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have you been up to
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oh not much i've not been up to much we
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also have number eight
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which is what have i missed fill me in
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so if you haven't caught up with someone
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for a while
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this is a good way to ask them what has
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happened
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since you last spoke to fill someone
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in is to give someone missing
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information
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to inform someone more fully of a
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situation so if i'm saying
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fill me in i'm saying tell me all this
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missing information
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another good one is we've got so much to
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catch up on we've got so much to talk
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about
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so much has happened since we last saw
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each other
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now number 10 is one that you can use if
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you've seen or met someone
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that you know you need to spend a long
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time talking to
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but it's not the right time it is
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there's so much to say
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but i can't go into it now i can't go
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into it now
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to go into something is to discuss or
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explain
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something in a careful and detailed way
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this implies that there are lots and
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lots of details
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too many for now maybe it would be
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impolite to talk a lot
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maybe there are some people around that
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shouldn't hear what you're talking about
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it's a good one to use to have up your
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sleeve that means to have something
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ready for later use
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right so we've discussed talking to
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people that we have met before
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now what should we do with people that
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we haven't met before
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we should get to know them we should ask
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some good
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open-ended questions to get them talking
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often we want to ask people how did you
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get your job
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you know how did you end up working here
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that's not so polite
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so a really good alternative is number
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11 which is
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how did you get into x how did you get
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into marketing
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to get into something in this context is
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to become involved with
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how did you get involved in marketing
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another nice way of getting to know
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someone is to ask them
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what they do for fun and in american
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english especially
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what do you do for fun is a very common
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question i would say
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it's not so common in the uk but we do
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see it in movies and tv shows a lot
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we would say something more along the
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lines of what do you do outside of work
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or what do you do when you're not
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working i think this is nicer than
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asking someone
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what do you do for fun because i know
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when someone asks me what i do for fun
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i think oh god i'm not that funny person
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i like running will they think that's
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fun enough um
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so yeah just what do you do when you're
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not working what do you do outside of
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work
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another good thing to talk about is
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motivation and we want to know
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what motivates people but instead of
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just simply saying
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what motivates you you could say what
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makes you tick
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what really makes you tick and this is
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sort of asking what are you passionate
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about
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what keeps you going for example helping
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my students gain confidence
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really makes me tick another similar one
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is what gets you out of bed in the
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morning what do you get up for
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or quite a fun and cheeky one is
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what floats your boat what brings you
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joy
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this comes from the phrase whatever
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floats your boat and this is something
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that we say
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when somebody says they like something
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and we think it's a bit
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strange so for example if someone says
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they like running marathons every
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weekend i might say
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whatever floats your boat not my thing
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but good for you
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the question what floats your boat is a
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variation of that
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now when we meet people and we have a
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really really good conversation
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the next step is to ensure further
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contact
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to create further contact but we don't
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just want to say
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what's your number i would like to talk
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again although
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i quite like the direct approach there
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are some other ways of doing this
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like number 16 i'd love to carry this on
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at a later date
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or i'd love to carry this on at another
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time
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and this is just basically saying i
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would love to continue this conversation
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so you're sort of
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stopping them there saying pause but
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let's continue this
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later on whether it's tomorrow or this
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evening
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another good one to use if you can see
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that a conversation
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is coming to an end maybe it's like a
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break
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in a conference you know that the next
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lecture is starting
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but you still want to make sure you
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remain in contact with this person
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you could say something like i feel like
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we've got so much more to talk about
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and this is a really nice one because
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it's sort of passing the baton
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it's passing the responsibility over to
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the other person
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it gives them the opportunity to say
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well let's stay in touch
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let's exchange contact details it's nice
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if you don't know
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if they want to stay in touch you're
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kind of testing the water
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if they say yeah let's stay in touch
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brilliant if they don't well
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there we are the next one number 18 is
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to discuss something over a consumable
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a food or a beverage we should discuss
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this over lunch
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we should chat over coffee we should
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talk over dinner
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if you think about it using the word
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over is quite appropriate because
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normally
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two people having a meeting at dinner we
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are speaking
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over the top of the food another very
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simple one very
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casual number 19 is we should do this
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again we should do this again
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it's implying we should see each other
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again and the last one number 20
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if you want to be very direct and give
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your contact details
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you can say here's my email or here's my
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number
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drop me a line and we'll sort something
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out drop me a line
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and we'll sort something out so to drop
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someone a line
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is to write a brief message so it could
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be a text
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whatsapp an email and to sort something
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out
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is to organize something so we will
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arrange another meeting
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and the last set of phrases for me
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the hardest part of any conversation
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leaving the conversation it's just so
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awkward isn't it
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if you don't have much time you can use
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21
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which is oh i'm a bit pressed for time
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i'm a bit pressed for time this is a
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nice way of saying
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i i don't have any time i need to go or
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number 22
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right i need to make a move
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now in the uk
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we always say right and sort of clap our
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hands or clasp them together when we're
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about
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to begin to leave when we're about to
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announce our departure
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to make a move is to begin to leave or
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just to leave
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i'm going to make a move i'm going to
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leave it's just a nicer way of saying it
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because we're
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we're beating around the bush we're
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avoiding the topic
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i don't want to say i'm leaving i'm
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going to say i'm making a move
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another very similar one is i'm going to
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have to get
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going i'm going to have to get going
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or i need to get going to get going
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again
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it's like to make a move it is to begin
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to leave but by saying
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i have to it's implying i don't want to
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i just have to it's not my choice but i
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need to
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now a really nice one a really
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interesting maybe slightly manipulative
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one but i learned it from someone
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that i really respect it's an older
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woman in my village
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and i always really enjoy talking to her
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at parties in our village
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now i probably enjoy speaking to her
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more than she enjoys
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speaking with me and she said this
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wonderful thing once when she wanted to
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leave
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our conversation but she did it in such
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a nice way she said
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i don't want to hog you so i'm going to
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you know go over here
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to hog something is to take or use
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something good
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all for yourself so that other people
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can't have it
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and she was saying i don't want to keep
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you all to myself
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so i'm going to make sure other people
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can talk to you too it's implying that
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whoever you're talking to
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is so great that they need to talk to
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lots of people so lots of people can
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benefit from talking to them
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it wouldn't be right to deny others the
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chance of talking to this person
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i'm just going to throw that in there i
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thought it was really interesting
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kind of like reverse psychology instead
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of making me feel
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abandoned it made me feel flattered
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i'm so weak and the last one number 25
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i've already taken so much of your time
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i've already taken so much of that time
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i don't want to take any more
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that's a great way of saying you know i
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don't want to leave but
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i've already wasted so much of your time
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that i'm going to go
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just because it's fair on you right
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that's it for today's lesson
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those are your 25 smart sentences
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for daily conversation really good
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