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10 ways to have a better conversation

by Celeste Headlee

WARM-UP:
1. Discuss these questions:
• Do you more often text/message your friends or talk
with them?
• What kind of conversations do you usually have at
work/outside work? What do you discuss?
• What can you do to be a good listener?

VOCABULARY:
2. Fill in the gaps in the sentences with prepositions:

a) I'm quite excited about some of the ideas we're coming ________________ with,
but I’ll give more details later.
b) In essence, this boils ________________ to whether modern industrial capitalism
is compatible with a healthy planet.
c) I grew ________________ with a very famous grandfather who always looked
after me.
d) She walked me ________________ the presentation so I knew what to expect at
the meeting.
e) If you are at a party and you don't want to or can't leave, you can get
________________ of the conversation by introducing the person to someone
else.
f) He wanted to teach them how to speak ________________ a specific subject
without using notes.
g) Stop complaining and just go ________________ the flow!

3. Match the words in the left column with their definitions in the right column:

a. pundit 1. speaking in a way that is sensible and


that people can understand
b. distracted 2. to make someone upset and angry by
doing or saying something
c. offend
3. establish a meaningful contact or
d. brag connection with
4. to give your opinions in a way that shows
e. coherent you think you are definitely right,
especially when this annoys other people
f. pontificate 5. showing that you think you are more
important or more intelligent than other
g. condescending
people
h. engaged 6. to talk about your achievements or
possessions in a proud way that annoys
other people
7. someone who is an expert in a subject
8. not able to concentrate on something

Created by ESLBrains.com
10 ways to have a better conversation
by Celeste Headlee

4. Put the words from exercise 3 into the questions below and discuss them:

a) What features should a speech have to be ________________ ?


b) When was the last time you ________________ about your achievements?
c) Do you often get ________________ by what other people say? If so, how do
you deal with?
d) How do you know that somebody is not ________________ in a conversation
with you?
e) Why do managers sometimes speak in a ________________ manner to those
under them?
f) When you have to focus on a conversation, how do you keep from getting
________________?

DISCUSSION:

1. Look at the Ten Rules for Better Conversation and discuss which of these
rules:

(i) you don’t follow


(ii) would bring the best improvement to the quality of conversations you have
(iii) are least important

TEN RULES FOR BETTER CONVERSATION

I. Don’t multitask.
II. Don’t pontificate.
III. Use open-ended questions.
IV. Go with the flow.
V. If you don’t know say that you don’t know.
VI. Don’t equate your experience with theirs.
VII. Try not to repeat yourself.
VIII. Stay out of the weeds.*
IX. Listen.
X. Be brief.

* stay out of the weeds = don't say too much unnecessary things/details.

Created by ESLBrains.com

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