Basic Conversation Strategies
Learning the Art of Interactive Listening and Conversing
- 177 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Basic Conversation Strategies
Learning the Art of Interactive Listening and Conversing
About this book
Basic Conversation Strategies is a prequel to the intermediate -level Conversation Strategies. One significant difference is that Basic Conversation Strategies has an important listening component. Conversation is, after all, not just speaking; it also involves listening, and a major part of the approach in this book includes training learners to be good listeners.
There are three components to this material. The Student Workbook contains everything students will need to do the exercises, except the material they need to listen and respond to. This material is available as Downloadable Audio. The Student Workbook does not contain printed versions of the listening input because real conversation is not accompanied with sub-titles or closed captions. The printed version of the listening input is available in the Teacher's Edition, available at ProLinguaLearning.com, which is an essential component of Basic Conversation Strategies. The Teacher's Edition contains the entire Student Workbook and the complete scripts of all the listening input, plus teaching notes and suggestions, as well as feedback and evaluation forms.
The Downloadable Audio (visit ProLinguaLearning.com) has 67 listening exercises containing six types of exercises: 1) Listen and Fill- In, 2) Circle, 3) Choose, 4) Repeat, 5) Respond, and 6) Write.
Many of the audio-based exercises are in dialogue format, spoken by four native speakers. Although the Audio component is not essential (the teacher can speak the input), the material will be more effective and easier to manage if the students have access to the Audio.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Warm-up Lesson
- Unit 1: Using Rejoinders to Show You Are Listening
- Unit 2: Using Rejoinders to Show You Are Happy for Someone
- Unit 3: Asking Follow-up Questions to Express Interest
- Unit 4: Using Rejoinders to Express Sympathy
- Unit 5: Asking Clarification Questions to Show You Want to Understand
- Unit 6: Using Rejoinders to Express Surprise
- Unit 7: Review of Previous Units
- Unit 8: Asking Questions to Express Interest
- Unit 9: Using Small Talk
- Unit 10: Starting a Conversation
- Unit 11: Extending a Conversation and Ending a Conversation Politely
- Unit 12: Agreeing and Disagreeing