Course: How to... Speak English / Unit 1 / Session 43 / Activity 1

Hello and welcome to How To, your weekly instruction manual for saying and doing things in English. My name's William Kremer.Let's start today's programme with a piece of good news: I'm getting married next month!

So what's the best way for you to respond to something like that? Well, English speakers are lucky to have a word that they can use whenever something really good happens to another person:

EXAMPLECongratulations!

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Congratulations! If you're writing a card or a letter you might want to say what you are congratulating your friend about. To do this you can say:

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Congratulations on your engagement!

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Or you can say:

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