Course: How to... Speak English / Unit 1 / Session 42 / Activity 1

William

Hello, and welcome to another exciting edition of How To. My name is William Kremer. Coming up today:

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He's about fifty, greyish hair, beard - looks a bit like a politician.

Well, he's kind of scary when you first meet him, but he's a really nice guy.

William

We're going to be talking about vague language. That is language that isn't very exact: it isn't very precise. Now in the past, some people have thought vagueness to be a bad thing but actually it's very useful. But it's important to note that vagueness in written English is quite different from vagueness in spoken English, and it's spoken English that we're looking at today.

Let's start by listening to this clip:

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Woman