BBC Podcast

6 Minute English

BBC World Service

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/how2/)

This week I decided to listen a podcast that is very useful for people that is learning English, I really like it, the truth is that I will try this kind of podcasts because they are made for improve useful English language for everyday. Something else that I like it it's that they put some examples for a better comprehension.

In this episode they teach us how to ask for a favour, that is how ask someone to do something for you as a kindness or generosity, this is easy you only have to say "Can you do me a favour?" but if you want to be more polite you can say "Could I ask you to do me a favour?", if you don't know how to start to ask the favour you could say " I was wondering if I could I ask you a massive favour?", when we ask for favours we tend to exaggerate because of that the word "massive".

The way to thank for the favour could be "thank you so much" which is a very kind way to say thanks for the favour, also is quite common to use the future tense to promise for something like " Thank you so much I'll buy you a drink when I get back" or "I promise I return the favour sometime".