Listening L3+⬆️ - Email: Ask for clarification

🎧Practice listening skills first

Step 1. Listen to the fast version. Try to get as much as you can. Say the main idea to yourself.


Step 2. Listen to the medium-speed version. Repeat and then paraphrase again.


Step 3. Listen to the slow version, listen to rises in tones and pauses. Ask yourself why.


Step 4. Listen to the medium version again 🔁 on repeat to get more practice.


Step 5. Check the transcript and work with highlighted language.

I am reaching out to ask you a couple of questions about the experimental procedure. I received your urgent request email last Friday, and I am pretty sure that we can finish the write-up work before the end of this month. But I am little unclear about details, and I want to make sure we're on the same page before moving forward. Would you mind clarifying the following points for me:

1. If I understand you correctly, we need to strictly follow the write-up template that you sent to us last Friday. Is that right?

2. When you say put all analytical data into the procedure, are your referring to all LCMS and HNMR data of intermediates, or do you just need analytical data of the final compound?

Signposting Expressions

💡 I'm reaching out to...
💡 I'm [pretty/fairly/absolutely] sure we can...

💡 I'm a little unclear about...

💡 Would you mind <doing>?

💡 If i understnad you correctly, ....

💡 When you say, ....

💡 Do you mean..., or....