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Unit 3: Like this, like that
'Like' for preference and description

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  1. 1 Nice to meet you!
  2. 2 What to wear
  3. 3 Like this, like that
  4. 4 The daily grind
  5. 5 Christmas every day
  6. 6 Great achievers
  7. 7 The Titanic
  8. 8 Travel
  9. 9 The big wedding
  10. 10 Sunny's job hunt
  11. 11 The bucket list
  12. 12 Moving and migration
  13. 13 Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
  14. 14 New Year, New Project
  15. 15 From Handel to Hendrix
  16. 16 What's the weather like?
  17. 17 The Digital Revolution
  18. 18 A detective story
  19. 19 A place to live
  20. 20 The Cult of Celebrity
  21. 21 Welcome to your new job
  22. 22 Beyond the planets
  23. 23 Great expectations!
  24. 24 Eco-tourism
  25. 25 Moving house
  26. 26 It must be love
  27. 27 Job hunting success... and failure
  28. 28 Speeding into the future
  29. 29 Lost arts
  30. 30 Tales of survival

Session 4

In this session, we'll show you a game you can play with a friend to help you practise asking what something is like.  

We'll also learn an informal use of the word like from a famous BBC radio presenter.

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It's, like, so confusing!

Listen to the clip again.

Nick says:

  • "Her job is to, like, look after me..."

Here it's used as a filler. Fillers are words or sounds that don't have a specific meaning. Instead, they allow the speaker more time to think.

Look at these examples:

  • That's, like, so unfair!
  • He's, like, a really good guy.I wonder if I could, like, borrow your camera?

He also says:

  • "She was like: "Ok, ok, ok.""

Here it's used to mark reported speech. In other words, it's said before you quote somebody. The form is: to be + like.

Look at these examples:

  • When I told him about my new car, he was like: "I don't believe you!"
  • She asked if I wanted to go to the pub. I was like: "Yeah, that's cool. When shall we meet?"

To do

Time to mix it all up now! Try this quiz to see if you can identify all four of the different uses of like we've seen so far.

I really, like, love quizzes!

4 Questions

How well do you know your 'likes'?

Baga gammadde! Qormaata xumurteetta
Excellent! Great job! Carraa badaa! Qabxii argatte:
x / y

I really, like, love quizzes!

4 Questions

How well do you know your 'likes'?

Baga gammadde! Qormaata xumurteetta
Excellent! Great job! Carraa badaa! Qabxii argatte:
x / y

Next 

Well done everyone! That's four different ways of using the word like you've studied now.That's enough grammar for this week! Now it's time for News Report.

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