Surprise and Disbelief

ø To express surprise or disbelief:

• What a surprise! That’s a surrise!
• (Well), that’s very surprising!
• Really?
• What?
• Are you serious? You must be joking!
• You’re kidding!
• Fancy that!
• I must say … surprises me.
• I find that hard to believe.

Example of expressing surprise:

A: How can you say that?

B: Well, that’s the fact.

Example of expressing surprise:

A: I can’t believe it!

B: That’s true.

When you got a surprising fact, you can say:

¨ Do you know what?

¨ Believe it or not?

¨ You may not believe it, but …

¨ Can you believe this?

You can respond to the surprising fact using these expressions:

¨ Really?

¨ Are you joking?

¨ Oh?

¨ Where? Show me.