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hi my name is Emma and today we are
going to talk about conversation

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expressions

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we're going to talk about three very
important conversation expressions that

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will help you to organize your
conversation as well as help people

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listening to what you're saying know
where you are going to go with what you

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are saying

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so these are very good conversation
devices that are everyday expressions we

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use you will hear them a lot and the
other thing to know about these

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expressions is they never change

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you memorized them as a chunk

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so you memorize each of these words and
you use it always together

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ok so let's get started the first
expression we are going to win today is

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if you ask me if you ask me

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now I quite like this expression because
i have a lot of opinions and when you

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say if you ask me what you are saying is
this is my opinion

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I'm so for example i love comic books

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I love reading about superheroes like
Batman Superman but if you ask me

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Wolverine is the greatest superhero of
all time

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now some of you watching maybe in
complete disagreement with me

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maybe you think spider-man is cooler or
Batman is way better

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and so what you could respond is if you
ask me

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Wolverine isn't the greatest superhero
of all time that manages and I would

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have to disagree with you if you ask me
if you ask me

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toronto is a great city to live in

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if you ask me the government should
spend more money on health care

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so this is a very useful expression
because anytime you're giving your

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opinion you can use it and remember even
though it's a ask me

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you don't need to be asked your opinion
to use this even if somebody doesn't

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want to know your opinion

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you can still use this in a conversation
and say if you ask me

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all right number two

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speaking up speaking of is very
important because in English we really

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like to link things we like conversation
just to go very smoothly

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we like to know where somebody is going
in the conversation

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so speaking of what it does is it links
a new topic to an old topic so i'll give

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you an example

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we were just talking about Wolverine as
a superhero

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I said if you ask me I think

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Wolverine is the greatest superhero of
all time

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now maybe I want to talk about something
else about worry i have a new topic I

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want to talk about

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I can use speaking of to link Wolverine
as the greatest superhero to a new topic

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so here's an example speaking or if you
ask me

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Wolverine is the greatest superhero of
all time

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speaking of Wolverine did you know he's
canadian interesting back isn't it

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so speaking of links the old topic with
the new

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another example is um maybe I'm at a
party and somebody is talking about a

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hockey game they just saw the other
night

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maybe i could say speaking of hockey

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did you read about Wayne Gretzky's
daughter in the newspaper some

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interesting news is just happened with
her

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so speaking of what it does is it links
again and your topic to an old topic

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our third example

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this one is very useful as well as I was
saying as I was saying what this does is

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it helps you to go back to an earlier
point in the conversation

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sometimes maybe you're having a great
conversation

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you're talking about movies

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for example and then suddenly there's an
interruption

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maybe somebody knocks at the door maybe
your phone goes off and you have to

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answer it and then your friends are
still talking

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and when you come back you want to
continue talking about what you were

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talking before

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so what you can say it as I was saying
so if I'm talking about movies

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the there's a knock at the door

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I leave when I come back I can say as i
was saying about movies

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I really want to see J Edgar Hoover a
new a new movie that's just come out

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another example

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it's not just for interruptions we use
it often for interruptions in order to

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keep the conversation flowing smoothly
but people during presentations use this

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a lot as well maybe I'm giving a
presentation on government and I'm

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talking first about the environment and
then I move on my second point might be

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economics and then maybe a third . might
be education so I talked a lot about

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education but now i want to go back I
want to go back to environment

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I can use as I was saying as I was
saying

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or as I was saying earlier the
environment is very important to Canada

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so again this is to go back to an
earlier point in the conversation

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um I forgot to mention one thing about
speaking of this is actually quite an

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important point

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so as I was saying earlier about
speaking of at some people they don't

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really get the art of conversation so
well and so what they tend to do is

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they'll be talking about something like
for example UFOs the conversation is

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talking about aliens and UFOs and
suddenly somebody wants to talk about

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shoes

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now these two things don't really linked
up well in a conversation

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so when you use speaking up you want to
use something that kind of links to to

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the initial thing you were talking about
so don't don't say if you're talking

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about aliens

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oh speaking of aliens I want to go shoe
shopping this weekend because it won't

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make sense

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you really want to link some aspect of
what you're talking about

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originally to the new topic so a better
example would be speaking of aliens

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I want to I want to read a book

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it's it's all about aliens I want to see
The X Files that it's a show about

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aliens

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so it's good to have a link to keep the
the topic consistent

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ok so if you ask me every day

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expressions such as these are very
useful as I was saying earlier we use

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these expressions often and it will
really help you in terms of both your

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speaking and you're listening speaking
of speaking and listening

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