Hi I'm Sonia and welcome to today's lesson. Let's see what we have in store today for
you. Well, I do remember not so long ago. I was at a store and there was a lady who
was senior in age standing in front of me and me being a really nice person, I thought
that I could help her out. So I walked up to her and I told her that, you know what
I could go ahead and carry your bags from the store to the car. She turned to me and
she said, Hey you know what I don't need your help, just keep my bag down right away. Now
this reaction was really strange for me and I didn't quite understand it, you know, I
was wanting to help the lady. I asked her really nicely, but she didn't quite like it.
Now would you want something like this to happen to you? In a public place, It can be
quite embarrassing. Well, I wouldn't want something like this to happen to you and that
is why today we are going to do a lesson on, Ways to offer help.
Alright If you notice, I have written a couple of phrases on the board and something very
common with all of these phrases is, Do something. Because whenever you help someone, you always
do something for someone, right? So let's get started.
The first one is, I will. So for example, If you know your neighbors children go to
the same school and you are going to school to pick up your kids. You could simply walk
up to your neighbor and say, Hey I will do something, which means today I will pick the
kids from school. So guys here you know that this is something that's really going to help
your neighbor and save your time, so It's a very casual and nice way to say, Hey I will
do something, which means, I will pick the kids from school. Nice and easy and very helpful.
The next phrase is, Let me do something. So you could say something like, Let me adjust
the car seat. You know for example, You can see that someone's struggling in the car and
they can't put the belt in place, so you could simply say, Let me adjust the car seat for
you. Let me do something for you. This is also very helpful, yet it is even more friendlier
and even more polite, so it sounds even better. You can definitely use this one.
The next phrase that I have for you on the board is very interesting, It says, Why don't
I do something. Now this one guys sounds like a question. It sounds like you are questioning
someone, but It's not really a question, It's just you know something that you would say,
when your'e not really sure, If the person really needs your help. So you could say,
Hey Why Don't I bring the groceries today. So you don't use it like a question, It's
like a sentence, You say, hey why don't I bring the groceries today and you wait for
the person's reaction. Now if the person says, Well yes sure you can, there you go, You've
got your reply and you can go ahead and help your friend or your neighbor, whoever it is.
The next one I have on the board for you is, Do you want me to do something? Alright, now
this one also could be used, when you are unsure if the person needs or wants your help,
so you could say something like, Do you want me to say, Bring some bread from the market?
Now this one is actually a question, your'e saying, Hey you know what I'm going to the
market, so do you want me to bring some bread from the market for you too? And if you get
a positive answer, go ahead and do it. You've definitely help someone here. The next one
on the board says, Would you like me to do something? So for example, Would you like
me to fill up your water bottle? Now this one guys is a little formal, so for example,
If your'e working in an office and you have some new colleagues, who is sitting next to
you today at your workstation. Now you don't really know them all that well, you don't
know if they would really need your help, but since you are walking up to the water
filter, you could simply say, Hey would you like me to fill up your water bottle for you.?
That sounds formal, it sounds nice and here it sounds, like your'e asking permission,
so this one's a good one to use, when you want to be a little formal and little more
careful offering your help. Now the next one is also something very nice and It's a phrase,
which can be used by people, who work in a customer service centric area, so for example,
you know If your'e a sales person and you have a customer, who's walked in into your
store and they finding it difficult to look for things. So you can walk up to them and
say, I can do something, which means I can find you a pair of shoes. So you can use something
like, I can find you a pair of shoes. Over here as well, your'e not exactly sure. So
you want to be very careful and you can tell your customer, you now what I can, which means
I can definitely do it for you, If you just say yes. Now the next one we have here is,
Can I? Now when I say something like, Can I? Or can I do something? This clearly shows,
that I want to really take your permission before I go ahead and help you with this,
so for example, You know if Your'e at a party and you see someone who's waiting, you know
sitting at a table, maybe sitting alone and you want to go ahead and give them some company,
so you can simply say, Hey can I, maybe get you something to eat? So this sounds nice.
It sounds formal and yet it sounds very friendly, so It's a good one to use. The next one is,
I'd be happy to do something. Now I'd is basically I and would put together, so basically you
are saying, I would be happy to so something. So for example, You know, If your'e a business
person, you have your own business or you know your'e a working professional and you
need to set up a meeting with someone. Now here you really need to sound formal, impressive
and really nice. So what you could say is, I'd be happy to schedule a meeting with you.
I'd be happy to schedule a meeting with you. This phrase is really good, when you want
to sound formal, you want to sound nice and create a great impression with that client
of yours. Now the last and final one I have here is, May I offer you something. Now this
is a nice and helpful phrase to use, If you are at a party or at a social gathering and
it sounds really classy and really fancy. You know you can walk up to a person and say,
Hey may I offer you a drink? Or May I offer you a seat. So that sounds really nice. These
are a couple of phrases that I have guys for you, which you can definitely use in your
day to day conversations.
There's no hard and fast rule as to which phrase could be used, where? However if you
do, try and follow this to some extent. I'm sure you will see a huge difference. So do
try these phrases and I will be back soon with a new lesson. Till then you guys keep
watching and keep practicing. Bye bye.