RESPONDING TO GOOD AND BAD NEWS: unit 8
RESPONDING TO GOOD AND BAD NEWS:
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RESPONDING TO GOOD NEWS |
RESPONDING TO BAD NEWS |
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That’s great! / Congratulations! / That’s wonderful! / I’m glad to hear that/ Great news!/ Incredible!/ Superb!/ Sounds great! / Lucky you! / Oh, how wonderful! / Really? I can’t believe that! / Wow! That sounds exciting! / That’s fantastic! |
I’m awfully sorry that… / I’m sorry to hear that. / I hope there is nothing wrong. / I’m ever so sorry. / It’s such a frightening experience. / I’m sorry to hear such terrible news/ My goodness! / I can’t believe it! Poor you! / I’m awfully sorry to hear that. / I do sympathize with you. / Please, accept my deepest sympathy. / I know how you must be feeling. / that must be awful! |
Examples:
Rim: I’ve passed my driving test.
Ilias: That’s great!
Rim: Thank you very much.
Karima: I’ve learnt all my irregular verbs by heart.
Souad: That’s wonderful!
Karima: Thanks.
Loubna: What’s the problem, Oualid?
Oualid: My father had a bad car accident this morning.
Loubna: I’m sorry to hear such terrible news.
Jalila: You look pale, Lamiae! Are you sick?
Rajae: No, but somebody wanted to steal my handbag a few minutes ago. I was so scared because
he was holding a knife, but fortunately he ran away when he saw a policeman coming
towards us.
Jalila: It’s such a frightening experience.
Rachid: We’ll establish a clean-air association in our town. Would you like to join us?
Samy: Superb! I wouldn’t miss such an initiative.
Son: Did you hear that? A new civil war has broken in central Africa.
Father: My goodness! I hope it won’t last for long.
Son: But, the UN will send soldiers to establish order there.
Father: Great! They’ll surely calm down things there.
Rachid : We’ll establish a clean-air association in our town. Would you like to join us?
Samy: Superb! I wouldn’t miss such an initiative.
Amal: What was yesterday’s anti-globalisation rally like?
Salim: Some angry boys clashed with the police!
Amal: I can’t believe it! I hope there weren’t any casualties!
Salim: Fortunately, there weren’t.
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RESPONDING TO GOOD NEWS |
RESPONDING TO BAD NEWS |
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That’s great! / Congratulations! / That’s wonderful! / I’m glad to hear that/ Great news!/ Incredible!/ Superb!/ Sounds great! / Lucky you! / Oh, how wonderful! / Really? I can’t believe that! / Wow! That sounds exciting! / That’s fantastic! |
I’m awfully sorry that… / I’m sorry to hear that. / I hope there is nothing wrong. / I’m ever so sorry. / It’s such a frightening experience. / I’m sorry to hear such terrible news/ My goodness! / I can’t believe it! Poor you! / I’m awfully sorry to hear that. / I do sympathize with you. / Please, accept my deepest sympathy. / I know how you must be feeling. / that must be awful! |
Examples:
Rim: I’ve passed my driving test.
Ilias: That’s great!
Rim: Thank you very much.
Karima: I’ve learnt all my irregular verbs by heart.
Souad: That’s wonderful!
Karima: Thanks.
Loubna: What’s the problem, Oualid?
Oualid: My father had a bad car accident this morning.
Loubna: I’m sorry to hear such terrible news.
Jalila: You look pale, Lamiae! Are you sick?
Rajae: No, but somebody wanted to steal my handbag a few minutes ago. I was so scared because
he was holding a knife, but fortunately he ran away when he saw a policeman coming
towards us.
Jalila: It’s such a frightening experience.
Rachid: We’ll establish a clean-air association in our town. Would you like to join us?
Samy: Superb! I wouldn’t miss such an initiative.
Son: Did you hear that? A new civil war has broken in central Africa.
Father: My goodness! I hope it won’t last for long.
Son: But, the UN will send soldiers to establish order there.
Father: Great! They’ll surely calm down things there.
Rachid : We’ll establish a clean-air association in our town. Would you like to join us?
Samy: Superb! I wouldn’t miss such an initiative.
Amal: What was yesterday’s anti-globalisation rally like?
Salim: Some angry boys clashed with the police!
Amal: I can’t believe it! I hope there weren’t any casualties!
Salim: Fortunately, there weren’t.
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