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Spoken English Patterns for Daily Use

This document provides 40 common spoken English patterns for day-to-day communication. The patterns include ways to ask for things, permission, or assistance; make suggestions; talk about completed or ongoing actions; discuss frequency and duration; express ability, obligation, or typical behavior; and indicate locations of people or objects. Time is also addressed with examples of how to say the hour, minutes, and periods past the hour.

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Spoken English Patterns for Daily Use

This document provides 40 common spoken English patterns for day-to-day communication. The patterns include ways to ask for things, permission, or assistance; make suggestions; talk about completed or ongoing actions; discuss frequency and duration; express ability, obligation, or typical behavior; and indicate locations of people or objects. Time is also addressed with examples of how to say the hour, minutes, and periods past the hour.

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  • Introduction to Spoken English Patterns: Introduces the purpose of the document which is to provide English patterns for day-to-day communication.
  • Requests and Permissions: Covers common expressions used when making requests or seeking permission in various contexts.
  • Offers and Suggestions: Lists phrases used for offering or suggesting help or options in conversations.
  • Suggestions and Statements: Shows communicative expressions that involve making suggestions or stating facts.
  • Questions and Experiences: Discusses asking questions about experiences or events and reflecting on past actions.
  • Obligations and Necessity: Focuses on statements expressing obligations or necessities.
  • Existence and Past States: Comprises expressions that describe existence and past states or actions.
  • Habitual Actions and Reported Speech: Includes phrases for describing habitual actions and reporting others' speech or beliefs.
  • Ability and Expectations: Demonstrates how to communicate ability, expectations, and advice in daily dialogues.
  • Advice and Time Expressions: Highlights how to give advice and express time using different phrases.
  • Achievements and Time Indications: Conveys achievements through language expressions and details ways to indicate time.

Spoken English patterns for day to day

communication

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[Link]/Could/May I have some water?
(Asking for something)

2. Can/Could you open the door?


(Asking people to do something)

3. Can/Could/May I go out?
(Asking for Permission)

4. I would like to go home


ug wjYHhs

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[Link] you like a cup of tea?
(Offering something)

[Link] you like to go home?


lrkak wjYHh o@

[Link] we go home?
(Suggestion)

[Link]’s go home
(Suggestion)

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[Link] don’t you see a doctor?
(Suggestion)

10. I have already closed the gate.


She has already arrived in Colombo.
±kgu;a lr, ;shkjd

11. I have just closed the gate


She has just had breakfast
fï ±ka állg l,ska lf<a

12.I haven’t had lunch yet.


He hasn’t informed yet
;du lr, kE

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[Link] you left home yet? No, not yet
Has she done homework yet? Why not?
±kg lr,o ;sfhkafka @

[Link] you ever eaten beef? Yes, once/ twice/ three times
No never
Has she ever met you? ……………………………..

[Link] and been - .sys,a,d$ .sys,a,d ;shkjd


(i)gone - .sys,a,d
She has gone to Kandy.
They have gone home.
(ii)been- .sys,a,d ;shkjd
I have been to Japan.
She has been to Adam’s Peak.

[Link] long have you been married ?


How long has she been working here ?
For 2 years ^;siafia&
Since 1995 ^isg&

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17. Has to/ have to – lrkak isoaO fjkjd
She has to find a job.
We have to work hard

18. had to – lrkak isoaO jqKd


I had to go to Colombo.
We had to stop the meeting.

19. will have to – lrkak isoaO fõú


You will have to come tomorrow.
She will have to get up early.

20. There is/ there are - hï ;ekl$ fj,djl bkakjd$ ;shkjd


(There’s/ there’re)
There’s a car under the tree.
There’s a bus at 7.30 a.m.
There are 30 students in the class.
There are plenty of enough chairs in the class.

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[Link] there a key on the table? Yes, there is /are
Are there students in the class? No there aren’t / isn’ t

22. There isn’t/ There aren’t - ke;


There is no water

[Link] was/ There were – ysáhd$ ;snqkd


There was a rat in the room.
There was plenty of food for us.

[Link] will be - ;sfhaú$ ys§ú


There will be a meeting tomorrow.
There will be a lot of people at the meeting

7|Page
[Link] to – biair l<d oeka lrkafk kE
I used to smoke.
She used to have a long hair.

[Link]/ is/ are used to – mqreÿhs$ yqrehs


I am used to this place.
She is used to this room.

[Link] got – bkakjd$ ;shkjd


I have got a brother.
She has got a problem.

[Link] is said that - lsh,d" lshkjd


It’s said that he has gone abroad
It’s said that they are not coming tomorrow

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[Link] is said to - lsh,du lshkjd
He is said to work 16 hours a day
She is said to be a teacher

[Link] / is/ are able to – yelshs


He is able to clean the room.
They are able to complete the work.

[Link]/were able to - yels jqKd


We were able to win the match
He was able to open the door

[Link]/is/are supposed to
You are supposed to attend the class.
You are not supposed to waste time
You are not supposed to park the car here

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[Link] better – lrkjkï ;uhs fyd`o
You had better come tomorrow.
You better see a doctor.

[Link] you talk


I will make you walk

[Link]’t - wjYH kE
You needn’t come if you don’t have time.
We have got plenty of time. We needn’t hurry

[Link] you mind cleaning the room - lula ke;akï lrkjo @


Would you mind closing the door

10 | P a g e
[Link] to - wudrefjka l,d
We managed to win the match
She managed to pass the exam

[Link] to - wyïfnka isÿjqyd


I happened to meet one of my best friends today
I happened to go to a restaurant today

[Link] rains in Colombo


It rained last night
It will rain tomorrow
It was raining yesterday

[Link]
It’s 12 o’clock/ It’s twelve.
It’s 5 past 12/ It’s twelve five.
It’s 10 past 12/ It’s twelve ten.
It’s 15/quarter past 12/ It’s twelve fifteen.
It’s 20 past 12/ It’s twelve twenty.
It’s 30/half past 12/ It’s twelve thirty.
It’s 35 past 12/ It’s twelve thirty-five.
It’s 40 past 12/ It’s twelve forty.
It’s 45past 12/ It’s twelve forty-five.
It’s 50 past 12/ It’s twelve fifty.
It’s 55 past 12/ It’s twelve fifty-five. /It’s five to one.

11 | P a g e
12 | P a g e

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