talk about your attendance-or rather, your lack of attendance. 4.OK, oth OK and so are used very frequently in conversational language. Here, the student uses "OK to show that she admits that she s missed class a few times 5. a few times? a reduced answer, the advisor means something like What do you mean by a few times? By using a few times, the student suggests that she hasnt missed class enough times to cause a problem. By questioning few times"(shown by the advisors emphasis on few"), the advisor is saying that there have been many absences, not just a few come This expression is used to show that what has just been said unreasonable or illogical. The student doesn t understand why missing some boring classes is setting herself up to fail 7.So? This one-word question is used when one doesn t understand the relationship or consequence that follows from what has just been said. (The student means she doesn't understand the relationship between missing classes and her student visa) 8. gonna There are many relaxed" pronunciations of commonly used phrases (for example, hasta or hafta" for has to or have to, wanna" for want to woulda/coulda/shoulda/mighta" for would've/couldve/shouldve/might ve). These forms are very common in spoken English, but they re not acceptable in most written work 9. Turn me in to a reduced question: Are you going to turn me in to 10. Like what? reduced"question: What will the something else be like?"("What kind of thing are you going to do?talk about your attendance--or rather, your lack of attendance." 4. OK, so . . . Both OK and so are used very frequently in conversational language. Here, the student uses "OK, so . . ." to show that she admits that she's missed class a few times. 5. A few times? A "reduced" answer; the advisor means something like "What do you mean by a few times?" By using "a few times," the student suggests that she hasn't missed class enough times to cause a problem. By questioning "a few times" (shown by the advisor's emphasis on "few"), the advisor is saying that there have been many absences, not just a few. 6. Oh, come on. This expression is used to show that what has just been said is unreasonable or illogical. The student doesn't understand why missing some boring classes is setting herself up to fail. 7. So? This one-word question is used when one doesn't understand the relationship or consequence that follows from what has just been said. (The student means she doesn't understand the relationship between missing classes and her student visa.) 8. gonna There are many "relaxed" pronunciations of commonly used phrases (for example, "hasta" or "hafta" for has to or have to, "wanna" for want to, "woulda/coulda/shoulda/mighta" for would've/could've/should've/might've). These forms are very common in spoken English, but they're not acceptable in most written work. 9. Turn me in to . . . ? A "reduced" question: "Are you going to turn me in to . . . ?" 10. Like what? A "reduced" question: "What will the 'something else' be like?" ("What kind of thing are you going to do?