How to do this drill
- Decide whether meaning is affected.
- Use the smallest repair that restores meaning.
- Return to the route immediately.
Material
- Case A
- you use ‘facility’ instead of ‘community centre,’ but meaning is clear.
- Case B
- you forget ‘refundable deposit.’
- Case C
- a sentence about two schedules becomes tangled.
- Case D
- you say Saturday but the event is Sunday. Practise selecting no repair, definition, restatement, or factual correction.
Your tasks
- Assign a repair level to each case.
- Produce one natural repair phrase for B, C, and D.
Check your work
Finish the tasks first, then open the answer to compare.
Show the answer
Answer
A continue; B describe money returned later; C stop and restate simply; D correct the day once.
How to reach it
- Assess listener meaning.
- Choose minimum intervention.
- Continue to the next planned idea.
Evidence
Examples: ‘the deposit—the amount returned after the key comes back’; ‘Let me put that clearly…’; ‘Rather, the event is on Sunday.’
Review your attempt
- Did you avoid correcting harmless wording?
- Were repairs shorter than the original problem?
Take it further
Record a response with two deliberate repair cues and evaluate whether flow survives.
