Real Talk #044 – How to react to surprising news
Posted by Andrew Bates
4 Nov, 2020
Some people enjoy surprises. Some people absolutely hate them! It is sometimes difficult to know how to react...
Isn’t it frustrating when you are on a video call and all of a sudden you experience technical difficulties? Sometimes the video is faulty. Sometimes it’s the audio. What should you do? In this Real Talk episode, Andrew and Kassy give you many expressions that will help you deal with these situations.
Fun facts
We like to think that video conferencing is a recent invention, but the ability to see and speak with someone from far away has been around since the invention of television in the 1930s!
Expressions included in the study guide
- To cut out
- To lag
- To be frozen
- Our connection is bad
- Let’s try that again
- I lost you
- Can you hear me now?
- To turn [something] on and off
- It might be my [something]
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