Improve Your English Speaking Fluency | How to Change, Postpone, or Cancel Plans

Do you feel confident changing, postponing, or canceling a meeting in English? In this advanced speaking lesson, you’ll practice 30 useful phrases for modifying plans – from casual, everyday English to more professional and polite language. This is a listen-and-repeat lesson, designed to help you: • sound natural • feel comfortable in real conversations You’ll practice how to: • change the time of a meeting • apologize appropriately • thank someone for being flexible • postpone or cancel plans • respond appropriately when someone cancels This lesson is ideal for: • workplace communication • professional emails and calls • everyday conversations that require tact and clarity Repeat the phrases as many times as you need. Of course, I'd recommend trying to be punctual and keeping your commitments, but sometimes plans have to change. You can handle those unexpected situations appropriately and confidently. Confidence comes from practice. For more guided speaking practice and feedback, join the English with Jennifer community on Patreon as a Lifelong Learner. The link is below. INDEX 0:00 Introduction 0:28 Changing the time of a meeting 1:17 Apologizing for the inconvenience 1:48 Appreciating flexibility 2:14 Modeling combinations 2:41 Politely changing the time 3:19 Apologizing politely 3:45 Saying thank you politely 4:15 Postponing or canceling 5:31 More formal ways to cancel 6:47 Expressing flexibility 7:20 Note on highly formal language 7:59 Idiom: take a rain check 8:36 Question for you to answer! 8:41 More practice #LearnEnglish #EnglishSpeakingPractice #BusinessEnglish #ProfessionalEnglish #B2English #C1English #EnglishVocabulary #EnglishWithJennifer #SpeakEnglishConfidently ✨Are you an advanced student? ✨Would you like LIVE instruction every month and meaningful practice with my feedback? Join me on Patreon as a Lifelong Learner. 👉http://patreon.com/englishwithjennifer ❇️Group Zoom classes ❇️Exclusive practice tasks ❇️ Bonus listening materials (movie reviews, comprehension quizzes, etc.) ❇️Access the archive of previous posts. Hundreds of learning gems! This is an ongoing study program. Members vote on a monthly topic. All skills are addressed.