Socialising 2: Keeping conversations going

Topic: Socialising and keeping conversations going
 
Level: Intermediate (B2) and above
 
Aims:

• To raise awareness of some techniques for maintaining a conversation with a person you have just met.
• To analyse the effect of different types of questions, and to practise making different types of question.
• To come up with and analyse a bank of questions that can be used to keep conversations going.
• To analyse and practise a technique for turn-taking in a conversation.

Plan components
 
Lesson plan: download

Worksheets: download

By Jeremy Day 

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