English Conversations 1

Remember the fast story we saw? Well, here's the solution to what happened! Do you like travelling?  Read this funny story and underline the past tenses The stories I had heard about hitchhiking were mostly shortcuts to getting murdered, so I hated the idea. However some friends persuaded me to give it a try when we missed our bus during a badly planned trip to Bosnia.  The sun was setting when a truck slowed down in front of us. We pilled up in the back. The driver had no English and we didn'r speak his language but he kept repeating the word "Lavanda" in an ever louder voice. BY the time we arrived at our destination we were horrified! As we were getting ready to escae he opened the trunk of his car. Ready he was going to murder us, we all screamed... But no. None of that happened. Instead, he flashed a toothy grin as he unveiled his roomy trunk… Which was filled with tiny draw-string packets of dried lavender. Lavanda. Lavender.  All this time he had been trying to...

Think of misunderstandings you've had with people either in your own language or in English/another language. What happened?  What were possible reasons? the message relied on cultural information that the listener had no idea about the message used vocabulary the listener didn't know the message was disorganised the speaker spoke too fast Now watch the video. What do you think was the reason of the misunderstanding? What's wrong with the message? to the point, succinct, summarise, culture, start, clear, complicated, misunderstandings, disorganised 1. Messages need to be _____ , _____ and _________. 2. If a message is long and ______________, you could ask the speaker to _____________ it. 3. Information that is specific to your ______________ can cause _____________ if you don't explain it. 4. If a message is _________________, it might be necessary to _______ over from scratch. Communication Skills Fixing a misunderstanding Simplify The speaker can: identify the key in...

  A Day in your life   What do you do every weekend? Step 1 You may ask five and only five questions about your partner’s daily life: their age, job, studies, journey to university or work, routine and evening pastimes. Step 2 When you have asked and answered the questions, write “A Day in the Life” of your partner in the first person, as if you were your partner. Use the information you got from your partner and use your imagination and empathy to fill in details you don’t know. How does he/she feel about his/her life? Step 3 When you finish, give the description to your partner, read the description of your life and then tell your partner if it is a good description of your everyday life. Step 4 So, how about you? When do you generally get up? What is something you always do when you study for a test? What is something you usually do in your free time? Where do you often go in summer? Where do you sometimes go with your friends? What is something you never do around your kid...