Tasks
- Assign a repair level to each case.
- Produce one natural repair phrase for B, C, and D.
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.
Label
Repair cases
Solution
AnswerSummary
A continue; B describe money returned later; C stop and restate simply; D correct the day once.
ReasoningSteps
- Assess listener meaning.
- Choose minimum intervention.
- Continue to the next planned idea.
EvidenceOrModel
Examples: ‘the deposit—the amount returned after the key comes back’; ‘Let me put that clearly…’; ‘Rather, the event is on Sunday.’
ReviewQuestions
- Did you avoid correcting harmless wording?
- Were repairs shorter than the original problem?