Question

1. ‘Congratulations! I am so pleased to hear that.’
2. Excuse me…but I really don’t understand this point about the need for good connectivity’.
3. ‘Is this your new phone? Must have cost you a lot?’
4. ‘Thanks for inviting me, but I have another engagement’.
5. ‘I doubt if I can make it for the dinner tonight’.

Read some possible ‘answers’ and match them to the comments given above.

1. Thank you so much…I had to work hard for this promotion.
2. Without good connectivity, we can’t download any of the big files…and that slows down our work!
3. Not really…only twelve thousand!
4. Oh that's a pity ! Can you make it on the 18^th then?
5. I can do it, only if I don’t go home to change.

Answer 1

1. ‘Congratulations! I am so pleased to hear that.’
   → Thank you so much…I had to work hard for this promotion.
2. ‘Excuse me…but I really don’t understand this point about the need for good connectivity.’
   → Without good connectivity, we can’t download any of the big files…and that slows down our work!
3. ‘Is this your new phone? Must have cost you a lot?’
   → Not really…only twelve thousand!
4. ‘Thanks for inviting me, but I have another engagement.’
   → Oh, that’s a pity! Can you make it on the 18th then?
5. ‘I doubt if I can make it for the dinner tonight.’
   → I can do it, only if I don’t go home to change.