From Kenneth Beare,
Your Guide to English as 2nd Language.
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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).

Reading Tips to Improve Your Pronunciation
Reading Tips to Improve Your Vocabulary
Reading Tips to Improve Your Conversational Skills
Reading Tips to Improve Your Grammar
Reading Tips to Improve Your Listening Skills