Five Ways to ask for clarification. In this lesson we are going to speak about clarification. If you want to ask a person to clarify a point for you, what kinds of phrases would use? Do you know these phrases? If you don't, don't worry, we are going to learn them in this lesson. Number one we use Pardon?

Pardon? So this is said, If you didn't hear or understand what the person said, for example, could you please turn off the TV? But for example, you didn't hear or understand him. So it's better to say Pardon? Pardon? Number two is would you mind repeating that?

Would you mind repeating that actually, we use this when we want the other person to repeat something For us and this is formal, would you mind repeating that? There is a grammatical point here, I would like to explain for you Do not forget after, would you mind the verb comes with it? Would you mind repeating that? Would you mind repeating that? Would you mind speaking up? Would you mind, for example, helping me?

I want to three E's. What do you mean? What do you mean? But you can say very fast. What do you mean? So, we use this phrase to ask for clarification.

And we use this phrase to ask for more information. For example, do you really work out? Work out means to exercise. Do you really work out and actually Person B doesn't actually understand and he wants to get more information. So he says, What do you mean? What do you mean?

So, when you're asking for more information? What do you mean? What do you mean? Number four is? I'm not sure I follow you. I'm not sure I follow you.

This is used in some English and American movies. Some students do not know this. We use this phrase to ask for clarification to which means I don't understand. For example, I think speaking is a productive language. And Person B says, I'm not sure I follow you. I'm not sure I follow your means I'm not understanding you.

Number five is could you explain? This is also used to actually get more information. Could you explain more about this? For example, idea. Could you explain more about how this computer works? Could you explain more about The books we should study, we can use it in different sentences.

Okay, let's use these phrases in the real situation. Here there's a conversation between Sarah and jack. Sarah says, How is your business jack? And jack says, didn't go as I expect it. Then Sarah, she wants to get more information. So she says, What do you mean?

And I mean, it's not a good job. Yeah. What do you mean? So she wants to get more information. What do you mean? Here there is a conversation between Ted and jack.

Ted says, jack, you are a mysterious person. And I think jack doesn't understand Ted and he says pardon. And maybe he didn't hear him. Pardon. You know what I mean? You know, What I mean, and I'm not sure I follow you means I'm not understanding.

I don't understand what you're saying. I'm not sure I follow you. Yes, we use this phrase when we want to say that we don't understand the other person. Okay, great.