Getting ready to speak

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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm

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let's talk together today you're gonna

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have a chance to speak with me kind of a

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couple weeks ago i had some friends over

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to my house to carve pumpkins for

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Halloween and i hadn't seen those

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friends in a couple weeks so we caught

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up this phrasal verb caught up or catch

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up means to talk about things that

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happened since the last time that you

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saw those other people today i want to

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pretend that you and i are catching up

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if you want to have a friend who is an

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english speaker this is a necessary

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skill first i'm gonna ask you some

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questions and i want you to speak out

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loud in the blank then after that quick

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conversation is finished we're gonna go

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back and look at some possible responses

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so that if you didn't know what to say

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now you have some ideas let's get

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started imagine that you knock on my

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front door and I open it and say hey

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thanks for coming this is the blank I

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want you to respond in that blank I'm

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gonna be saying a couple other sentences

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so I want you to try to respond in

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whatever way you feel is best just for a

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couple seconds all right let's start one

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more time hey thanks for coming in it

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how's