유닛 10: The dog ate my homework!
False friends, loanwords and linking devices
유닛 고르세요
- 1 Pop-ups
- 2 Hidden talents
- 3 Can't buy me love
- 4 Travellers' tales
- 5 The colleague from hell
- 6 Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
- 7 Career changes
- 8 Art
- 9 Project management
- 10 The dog ate my homework!
- 11 The diary of a double agent
- 12 Fashion forward
- 13 Flat pack skyscrapers
- 14 Extreme sports
- 15 Food fads
- 16 Me, my selfie and I
- 17 Endangered animals
- 18 A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
- 19 I'm really sorry...
- 20 Telling stories
- 21 Fakes and phrasals
- 22 Looking to the future
- 23 Becoming familiar with things
- 24 From rags to riches
- 25 Against the odds
- 26 Our future on Mars?
- 27 Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
- 28 Dodgy dating
- 29 Annoying advice
- 30 I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks
세션 3
Learn some English for the workplace with our drama English at Work. Anna has to give her team some bad news but isn't sure how to do it. It's important to explain the background. Hear how she learns what to say and then you have a go!
Expressions to explain the background to a situation
It's over to you! You need to tell your work colleagues some bad news about your company. But before you do, you need to explain how you got into this situation. What is the best way to do it? Let's see if you can use the expressions from this session correctly.
Read the instructions and complete the activity

To do
Read the situations below and choose the correct sentence. Remember you are trying to explain the background to the problem or situation you are now in. Make sure you include every word from the expression. Good luck!
Explaining the background to a situation
5 Questions
Choose the correct response to the situation. Remember to look for accurate and polite English sentences
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Choose the correct response to the situation. Remember to look for accurate and polite English sentences
힌트
How many people are in this situation?Question 1 of 5
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Choose the correct response to the situation. Remember to look for accurate and polite English sentences
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Check the correct expression in the grammar notes.Question 2 of 5
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Choose the correct response to the situation. Remember to look for accurate and polite English sentences
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Is this situation really important?Question 3 of 5
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Choose the correct response to the situation. Remember to look for accurate and polite English sentences
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What word refers to something in the past?Question 4 of 5
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Choose the correct response to the situation. Remember to look for accurate and polite English sentences
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This is your boss you're talking to. Be formal!Question 5 of 5
Excellent! Great job! 네 안타깝군요 이번 점수입니다:
End of Session 3
That's all for Session 3. We hope you enjoyed hearing from the team at Tip Top Trading and learnt some useful expressions about preparing someone for dissapointment.
In Session 4 you'll read about some of the worst excuses people have ever made. See you there!
이번 세션 문법
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Expressions to explain the background to a situation
1. Let me just fill you in with the background… [then explain how you have got to the current situation]
Example:
Let me just fill you in with the background... last year head office told us we'd have to improve sales by 10 per cent or face some serious consequences.2. The reason we're in this situation in the first place is… [then explain the background to the story]
Example:
The reason we're in this situation in the first place is... we had a problem on our production line and we didn't have enough plastic fruit to sell.
3. Let's just remind ourselves how we got here in the first place… [then explain the reasons that have lead to the current situation]Example:
Let's just remind ourselves how we got here in the first place... it was an accounting error by… Tom!
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