Clarifying and Confirming
Introduction
Process
Exercise: Identify Steps
Exercise: Identify Strategies
Summary

Exercise: Identify Language Strategies

The following exercises give you practice in recognizing a few strategies you can use to convey that you have not understood completely and to ask for additional information/explanation. You can:

  • Ask a direct question
  • Paraphrase or state your understanding (with or without question intonation)
  • Ask for an example
Click on Listen to listen to the excerpt, and then identify the strategy each of these speakers uses. Select from the three options above.


Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6