Dave
6 nov 20231 min
Follow your teacher's instructions to practise questions with like.
Set up A/B pairs and select the corresponding page A/B of the worksheet. You should not look at the other page!
This needs to be done in pairs or in 2 teams
We also use the word like in other ways. Read the information.
To ask for and give examples:
I bought lots of nice things to eat at the supermarket.
Like what?
Like cheese, biscuits and chocolate.
As filler, when we aren’t sure exactly what we want to say:
I need to ... like ... talk to him. I guess I should ... like ... ask him how he feels, and like ...
find out if he wants to ... like ... stop being friends with me.
To focus attention on information given as numbers:
There were like 50 people waiting to see the doctor.
It was like two in the morning when we got home.
To report what someone said or felt:
And we were all like, what’s your problem. And then he was like, nothing. And we were like, well you definitely have a problem. And he was like, really angry.
As a suffix attached to a noun to say that something was similar to another thing.
The dancers were animal-like.
Do you usually hear people use like in any of these ways?
Which use of like is formal?
Which two uses of like are mostly used by younger people?
Do you think you should use like informally when you speak English?