What to Say when you Need Time to Think of a Response: How to Buy Time for IELTS or Job Interviews!

In a job interview if you hesitate in answering for too long while thinking, it isn’t good and could cost you the job. During your interview for the IELTS speaking exam, pausing for long periods of time before answering a question can cause you to lose points for fluency. To solve these problems, you should use the expressions and advice in this lesson!

So, what to do when you need a few seconds to think about your response or organize your thoughts in English? In today’s English lesson you will learn what to say when you need time to think of a response. The English expressions for thinking that are taught in this lesson will help you to get more time in interviews to come up with great answers. You will learn more than 12 time-buying phrases and strategies as well as how you can use them to avoid long pauses while thinking.

‘Buy time’ is an English Idiom. ‘Buy Time’ means to do or say something in order to get more time to complete a certain task. In this lesson you will learn the following 12 ways to buy time in English:
1.Well, let me think…
2. Well, let me see…
3. I’ll have to think about that…
4. That’s a good question.
5. How shall I put it?
6. Let’s put it this way…
7. The best way to answer that is… / The best way I can answer that is…
8. That’s an interesting question, let me see… (That’s a tough question / That’s a difficult question… / That’s a hard question…)
9. Perhaps the best way I could answer that is…
10. Ask a clarifying question or rephrase the question. You can also Restate the question in your answer. Two useful phrases for this are: Are you asking…? / So you’d like to know …?
11. I think the most relevant answer would be… / I think the most relevant example would be …
12. Avoid the bad habits of native speakers. Don’t use hesitation expressions like umm and uhh. Remember to take a slight natural pause before answering.

By the end of today’s English lesson you will have learned more than 12 different ways to get more time to think of an answer in English. These English expressions and advice will help you to buy time for IELTS speaking interviews and job interviews so that you’ll be able to sound like a fluent native English speaker while you think of the best answers to questions. Thank you for watching, “What to Say when you Need Time to Think of a Response: How to Buy Time for IELTS or Job Interviews!” I hope these English expressions for buying time will be useful for you as you succeed at your interviews. Good luck with your English studies!

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