Hello, everybody, I'm back. And this lesson we speak about five great and important ways to interrupt someone. When you interrupt your friends, or when you want to just actually speak to one of them. What do you say? How do you interrupt it? Do you understand the formal language, the informal language?
If your answer is no, don't worry. We're going to teach you some ways to actually interrupt someone. Let's start number one is sorry to interrupt but please stop working here. Sorry to interrupt but please stop working here. Silence Rob, but please stop speaking loudly. Okay, we can use different phrases.
Sorry to interrupt but please stop smoking. Yes, number two is any Excuse me, could I talk to you for a minute? Do you have a minute? Excuse me? Could I talk to you for a minute? We use this actually, when interrupting a conversation between two other people to talk to one of them.
Yes. When we want to talk to one of the persons in a group, we can use this Excuse me? Could I talk to you for a minute? Or do you have a minute? Number Three E's? Could I jump in here?
Could I jump in here? Yes, you have this phrase when interrupting a discussion among many people. So if I want to interrupt a discussion among many people, I say, could I jump in here? Could I jump in here? This is a very useful phrase. Number four, sorry, I just want to say that I'm going out with john Yes.
For example, your let's say, Your father is watching TV. Then you interrupt him, you say sorry, I just want to say that I'm going out with john. This is a way to interrupt people to and it's very polite to say sorry at first. Number five is actually this is very formal. Say may I have a word may have a word. Sometimes say me, I have a word with you may have a word.
Okay. Now let's use these phrases in different situations. There's a conversation between a colleague and at the bus and you see the colleague is trying to interrupt the bus she says, Sorry to interrupt, but some customers are not satisfied with this product. What should we do? And the buses please keep waiting. I'll talk to you later.
Yes, so sorry to interrupt. Sorry to interrupt but And then you see your sentence. Here there's a conversation between the employer and the employee. The employer says we need to find another solution for this problem. And the employee says, may I have a word here? So you're trying to interrupt, actually, a group of people may have a word here.
I believe building a new department will help us save more time here. May I have a word here? Okay. So we learned many great ways to interrupt people. Now in the next lesson, we are going to review these sentences and check our understanding. So we could remember these phrases for a very long time and use them in our speech.