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Unit 3: Like this, like that
'Like' for preference and description

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  1. 1Nice to meet you!
  2. 2What to wear
  3. 3Like this, like that
  4. 4The daily grind
  5. 5Christmas every day
  6. 6Great achievers
  7. 7The Titanic
  8. 8Travel
  9. 9The big wedding
  10. 10Sunny's job hunt
  11. 11The bucket list
  12. 12Moving and migration
  13. 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
  14. 14New Year, New Project
  15. 15From Handel to Hendrix
  16. 16What's the weather like?
  17. 17The Digital Revolution
  18. 18A detective story
  19. 19A place to live
  20. 20The Cult of Celebrity
  21. 21Welcome to your new job
  22. 22Beyond the planets
  23. 23Great expectations!
  24. 24Eco-tourism
  25. 25Moving house
  26. 26It must be love
  27. 27Job hunting success... and failure
  28. 28Speeding into the future
  29. 29Lost arts
  30. 30Tales of survival

Session 4

In this session, we'll show you a game you can play with a friend to help you practise asking what something is like.  

We'll also learn an informal use of the word like from a famous BBC radio presenter.

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It's, like, so confusing!

Listen to the clip again.

Nick says:

  • "Her job is to, like, look after me..."

Here it's used as a filler. Fillers are words or sounds that don't have a specific meaning. Instead, they allow the speaker more time to think.

Look at these examples:

  • That's, like, so unfair!
  • He's, like, a really good guy.I wonder if I could, like, borrow your camera?

He also says:

  • "She was like: "Ok, ok, ok.""

Here it's used to mark reported speech. In other words, it's said before you quote somebody. The form is: to be + like.

Look at these examples:

  • When I told him about my new car, he was like: "I don't believe you!"
  • She asked if I wanted to go to the pub. I was like: "Yeah, that's cool. When shall we meet?"

To do

Time to mix it all up now! Try this quiz to see if you can identify all four of the different uses of like we've seen so far.

I really, like, love quizzes!

4 Questions

How well do you know your 'likes'?

Baga gammadde! Qormaata xumurteetta
Excellent!Great job!Carraa badaa!Qabxii argatte:
x / y

I really, like, love quizzes!

4 Questions

How well do you know your 'likes'?

Baga gammadde! Qormaata xumurteetta
Excellent!Great job!Carraa badaa!Qabxii argatte:
x / y

Next 

Well done everyone! That's four different ways of using the word like you've studied now.That's enough grammar for this week! Now it's time for News Report.

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