Foreign language instruction should begin in kindergarten

Example 1 – you know what you want to say

Here is the direct approach with no cautious language.

“How do you think your city will change in the next 20 years?”

” I guess it will be about twice the size it is now because the population is growing rapidly. There are a lot of new industries that have been set up there recently, so people want to move there. Just to give you one example: in my own street at least 10 new houses have been built in the last 2 years alone. So, as I was saying, I’d say it’ll double in size in the next 20 years.“

But could you do this, if you didn’t know what you wanted to say? Quite possibly not. What you may need to do is give yourself some thinking time.