Friday, April 26th, 2013: 9:00-10:30am

Socializing (2) Keeping conversations going

Topic: Socializing and keeping conversations going

Aims:

  • To raise awareness of some techniques for maintaining a conversation with a person you have just met;
  • To analyze the effect of different types of questions, and to practice making different types of questions;
  • To come up with and analyze a bank of questions that can be used to keep conversations going;
  • To analyze and practice a technique for turn-taking in a conversation.
New Vocabulary: would rather, to grant a request, a bore, worthless, provided (that), breath, to pay sb a compliment, to attend to sth, to attain sth, an institute, to realize sth, to seek to do sth, charisma, to be concerned about sth, a sure way to do sty, lively.

Speaking: Examples of questions that have not worked in your past socializing experiences, and ideas on what would work in the future. 

Homework: Answering the questions that are provided in the worksheets.
Over break: Review the course blog and watching some helpful videos

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