miércoles, 12 de enero de 2011

Victoria Beckham, proud to be British

I think this video clip featuring Victoria Beckham in the 2010 British Fashion Awards is really interesting for language learners.

She gives us a great demonstration of a typical feature of spoken English language learners find it difficult to grasp: conversation fillers, that is, short phrases and expressions like um, uh, I mean, you know, well, that speakers use to give themselves thinking time when they are talking, especially if ideas don't come to mind.

Self-study activity:
Watch the clip and count how many conversation fillers Victoria Beckham uses.



You can check your answers with the script here.