English Conversation

112 Practice Makes Perfect English Conversation

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EXERCISE

Write an appropriate completion to each of the following sentences. Ask an English-

speaking friend to check your work.

1. This is a fantastic opportunity. Still,.


2. I don’t want that job, and besides,.


3. He plays the violin professionally. Obviously,.


4. Yikes!.


5. I’m sad, since you hardly ever.


6. I’ll go along with.


7. My best friend is not exactly.


8. I hope no one/someone puts my name up for.


9. This is ridiculous, I mean,.


10. So far this week, I haven’t.

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EXERCISE

Write five sentences indicating what you think you’d better do in order to avoid negative

consequences. Indicate what those consequences would be. Use the following sentence as a

model. Ask an English-speaking friend to check your work.

I’d better go to bed early tonight; otherwise, I’ll be too sleepy to do well on my exam.