IMPROVING YOUR SPOKEN production/interaction/mediation

the point (I'm trying to make) is

The point is= What I mean (to say) is /The most important thing is…
The point I'm trying to make is…= What I'm trying to say is
What's your point? = What do you mean? What are you trying to say?

[Ross has been in love with Rachel since they were teenagers but, apparently, she never loved him back. Then, when he starts a serious relationship with someone else, Rachel finds out about Ross's feelings and realises she actually does love him back. So she lets him know, which makes things really complicated, as he was about to move in with his new partner].

Derry Girls- s2ep 03- open in new tab

The girls have tickets for a Take That concert in Belfast. However, a polar bear has escaped Belfast zoo, which has made their mothers really scared and prevented them from going to the concert.

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Mare of Easttown (2021) s01 ep 5: these two police detectives are supposed to be on a date -open in new tab

…but that's not the point. The point is … (=that's not what I mean/That's not the most important thing)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel- s2 ep 02- The point is…(=What I mean is…)

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Happy Valley (2014) s01 ep 1 -open in new tab

[The young man is threatening to set himself on fire. The police officer has to try and persuade him not to do it].

The point I'm making… (=what I mean is…)

Happy Valley (2014) s01 ep 1

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The English Game s01 ep01 - open in new tab

[Set in 1879. The men are part of an 'amateur/gentlemen' football team, the 'Old Etonians' (former students of Eton College, one of the very elitist private schools in England). They also happen to be members of the board of the Football Association (FA), which set the rules for football.

Some hours before, they have played a final in London against a team from the north of England, made up of industry workers and a couple of 'professional' footballers, which, at the time, went against the rules. The two teams drew, but the Old Etonians refused to play extra time and forced the other team to travel back to London the following week to decide who would win the FA cup. The alternative would have been to play the extra time and finish the game there and then].

The English Game s01 ep05 -open in new tab

The point is… (=what I mean is…)

The English Game s01 ep2 -open in new tab

The mill owners want to reduce workers' salaries by 10%. The workers threaten to go on strike.

That's the point (This is what is all about/This is exactly the intention, purpose or the reason-That's what we mean).

Years and Years, ep. 1- open in new tab

but that's the point, isn't it? (=that is what this is all about, right?)

The Crown s04 ep 04- That's the whole point, really.

Sherlock s3 ep 02 -open in new tab

Back to Life s02 ep 02