Hello guys, welcome to this new lesson. And this lesson we are going to teach you 10 ways. excuses for being late 10 excuses for being late. How do you express these excuses? We are going to teach you different phrases to use in these situations. The first phrase you can use when you are ladies, sorry I'm late.
You come to the English class and you're late. So before you sit down, you should tell your teacher Sorry, I'm late. Number two is I overslept. I over slept. overslept is the past of oversleep. It's a verb.
So when you overslept, actually you slept longer than you should have. So you overslept sometimes. I wake up at nine in the morning and I oversleep I should go to school at seven but I wake up at nine. So I over sleep and that's really bad. Number three is my alarm didn't go off. My alarm didn't go off.
Many students can feels this phrase and they cannot understand it. So when you say my alarm didn't go off, it means I was late to work today because my clock didn't go off. So I overslept. So go off means it's opposite. Turn on and in this case, his clock is an alarm clock. So now we understand what does it mean.
Number four is I had to wait ages for a bus. I had to wait ages for a bus ages here means a very long time I had to wait for a very long time for the boss for ages number five is the bus was late. This is easy. The bus was late this is this is an excuse to say that I'm late. I'm late because the bus was late yes maybe the traffic was terrible the traffic was terrible there were there were a lot of cars and I couldn't actually move the traffic was terrible. And number seven is I couldn't find a parking spot.
I couldn't find a parking spots. So parking spot is the place that you park your car there. So this is an excuse you can use when you can't find a parking spot number eight I got lost coming here. I got lost. I lost the way yes, sometimes. This is an excuse for coming late to the class.
I got lost coming here. Sorry for being late. Sorry, I'm late. I got lost coming here. Number nine, I was tied up in a meeting tied up in a meeting so he or tied up me occupied. It was impossible for me to escape.
I was tied up in a meeting. And the last one is I just lost track of time. So what does it mean to lose track of time? It means I didn't notice what time it was. So when you forgot the time and you didn't notice what time it was, you can say I just lost Krakoff time. This is a great phrase.
Okay, these are a great 10 excuses you can use when you are late for the class or meeting or any other. Actually situations you can use one of these phrases Now let's use all these voices in real situations. Sarah is speaking to her friend on the phone. Hey, john. Sorry, I can't see you at six today in class. I was tied up in a meeting.
And I just lost track of time. I wish you would understand. Yes. So she was tied up in a meeting. Actually, she couldn't escape and she just lost track of time, which means that she forgot about the time. She did didn't notice.
What time was it. Okay, perfect here. JOHN overslept. He slept more than he should have. So john overslept, and he couldn't find a parking spot. You're going to find a place to park his car.
And he had a and he had to wait ages for that. He had to wait for a very long time. He's in a big trouble like as his boss We'll be so angry with him. Yeah, maybe