language learning center · C1 · Lesson 2
How sure are we?
Explain what you've noticed, suggest a likely reason, and make clear what you still need to check.
Step 1 of 8
Understand and learn
Understand and learn
Work from a natural example to useful language, one small pattern, a spoken attempt, and a response that is relevant to your life.
Aisha
The bus has been on time all week. Looks like the new timetable is working.
Noah
It may well be helping, but the schools are on holiday too. There's much less traffic than usual.
Aisha
True. So it's a bit early to say the timetable has solved the problem.
Noah
Exactly. I'd wait until term starts again before relying on the later bus to get me to work on time.
Notice, try, and speak
Understand a natural example and learn a small set of useful words, phrases, and patterns.
Useful words and phrases
These items were selected by the lesson curriculum for practical use—not extracted as an every-word list.
Looks like the new timetable is working.
The bus has been on time all week. Looks like the new timetable is working.
It may well be helping.
It may well be helping, but the schools are on holiday too. There's much less traffic than usual.
There's much less traffic than usual.
It may well be helping, but the schools are on holiday too. There's much less traffic than usual.
It's a bit early to say the timetable has solved the problem.
True. So it's a bit early to say the timetable has solved the problem.
I'd wait until term starts again.
Exactly. I'd wait until term starts again before relying on the later bus to get me to work on time.
Notice, try, and speak
Which conclusion best fits what Aisha and Noah know?
Notice, try, and speak
Work from a natural example to useful language, one small pattern, a spoken attempt, and a response that is relevant to your life.
Listening
Listen, then choose what you heard.
Writing
Write your own sentence using this item.
This is self-practice. It is not automatically scored as correct or incorrect.
Speaking
Answer in your own words. Record yourself, listen back, and then compare your response with the model answer.
Make it yours
Describe an improvement you've noticed in daily life. Suggest a reason, then consider another explanation your partner offers. Say what you would check before changing your plans.
Think of a journey, a study habit, or a regular activity that has gone better recently. What do you know from experience, and what are you only guessing?
Use it with someone
Check an assumption together
Daily goal
0 / 3 activities
Each activity counts once a day. A correct answer, a completed writing task, or a positive speaking reflection counts toward your goal. One activity keeps your streak going.
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- 1. Share a change you've noticed and explain what you think caused it.
- 2. Ask your partner whether there could be another reason.
- 3. Discuss what would make you more or less confident in your explanation.
- 4. Decide whether you would act on it now or wait for more information.