5 Ways to Ask for Help

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Transcript

Hello, everybody. Welcome to this new lesson. So, in this lesson, I'm going to teach you five great ways to ask for help. If you want to ask friends for help you understand the formal and informal way. And how do you do this? Okay?

Some students have problems understanding these ways and these phrases. Okay, let's get started. Number one is I need a little help. This is a very easy phrase. I need a little help. If you need a little help, you can say it like this.

I need a little help. Can you help me with my homeworks? And number two, could you help me out? Could you help me out? Could you but di wait when these two letters come together, they are pronounced in American accent. So we say Could you?

Could you help me out? What does it mean? Could you help me out? If you help out you do a part of someone's work or give someone money? For example, her parents helped her out with $500 loan. Oh my God, that's perfect.

So now we can understand what's the meaning of help out to do a part of someone's work just apart? Could you help me out and this is usually a very formal phrase. Number three is could you give me a hand? This is a very common phrase used in different conversations when American English people speak. They say Could you give me a hand? Could you could you give me a hand?

What does give somebody hand usually Use for physical tasks. For example, could you give me a hand in cleaning this wrong? So we use this phrase when we speak about physical tasks. Okay, physical tasks. Number four is Could you spare a couple minutes? Could you spare a couple of minutes?

Could you spare a couple minutes? It means to give time or money to someone. For example, I have to go soon, but I can spare a few minutes. Can you spare me some change? So when we're speaking about money, can you spare me some change? Okay.

Now we understand Can you spare? It means that to give time or money to someone and the last one is could you do me favor? I myself use it many times in my classes. Could you do me a favor? For example, I tell one of my students, could you do me a favor? For example, bring me some markers.

So if you need to ask someone to do something for you, which is extra work, or a little annoying for that person. So we began with this, can you do me a favor? So in these kinds of cases, we can use this price. Can you do me a favor? Or could you do me a favor but when we say Could you do me a favor? This is usually more formal, but can you is less formal.

Okay, perfect. We understood, five great ways to speak about help. Now, let's use these phrases in real situations. So in this picture, you can see R is speaking to her friend Sarah is speaking to her friend. Sara says, I have trouble solving math problems. I know you are good at math.

Could you please give me a hand? So could you please give me a hand and Lily hair friend says Sure. Sure. So give somebody hand is to help somebody spiritually in physical tasks, but we can use it for other situations too. And here hear a friend is speaking to her friends, she says, I guess you have lots of information about making a delicious pasta. Could you do me a favor and tell me about this recipe?

Yes. Could you do me a favor? Could you please help me Especially something we ask for something that is a little bit annoying or extra work nice

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