Giving Reasons - English at Work

Learn to give reasons using because and talk about past actions using irregular forms of the simple past tense.

Key Learning points

• LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
  Where and why; what should be done; feelings; opinions.
   
• GRAMMAR
  Irregular Past Tense - drive/drove; choose/chose; tell/told; find/found; write/wrote; give/gave; am/was; go/went; get/got; say/said; keep/kept; let/let; see/saw; take/took; send/sent; tell/told; think/thought; steal/stole.
   
• IDIOMS
  Your guess is as good as mine; Vanished into thin air; Make a beeline; Zero in; Pick up the tab; Talk shop; Cut to the chase.
   
• VOCABULARY
  train wreck; patience; jargon; work-oriented; appropriate; winner; supportive; reminder; no/know.
   
• PRONUNCIATION
  Short Forms - Cos = Because

This video is part of the English at Work Series, created by Psychologist Eve Ash, linguistics expert Dr Fran Byrnes, features comedienne Erin Brown and Emmy-award winning Kim Estes.

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