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Reading Tips to Improve Your Conversation

From Kenneth Beare,
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Reading Tips to Improve Your Conversational Skills

  • Choose an article or short story to read with a friend or classmate. Discuss the article together.
  • Choose an article or short story to read with a friend or classmate. Each person should write down five questions about the article and his / her partner.
  • Read a few articles to develop a debate. Hold the debate in class making arguments based on what you have read.
  • Read a short play with a few friends. Continue the conversation by each taking a character from the play and having a discussion about something that happened in the play.
  • Read dialogues. Once you've practiced the written texts, improvise a continued conversation using the same characters as in the dialogue.
  • Read short biographies. Pair up with a friend or classmate and take on the roles of interviewer and famous person (taken from the biography).

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