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Recovering from awkward wording

situation in the speaking paper in particular you'll probably be nervous and you may find that you say something a little bit silly or inappropriate and using these expressions...

Course: Confidence in Cambridge speakingSection: Handling awkward expressionsSubtitles: en

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exam

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situation in the speaking paper in

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particular

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you'll probably be nervous and you may

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find that you say something

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a little bit silly or inappropriate

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and using these expressions after you've

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you've said that

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inappropriate thing when you realize

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that moment you realize oh that's

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that's probably not the best thing to

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say then

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these expressions can tell the examiner

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that you're

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you you realize that it wasn't the best

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thing to say it wasn't really

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appropriate

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but you know let's move on okay so i'm

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gonna give you

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three more examples with each one they

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all basically have the same meaning

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and the same use so you can use them in

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each of the

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examples in the same way so the first

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example

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i can't live without my mobile phone

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it's my best friend

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so to speak okay so you're saying that

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the mobile phone is

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