Imagine you are strangers at a party.

• Find a partner. Talk to him/her for three minutes. Try ideas from the article “The Secret of Successful Small Talk” from your Workbook.
• Move on and talk to another partner.
• Did you manage to apply some of the rules?

Complete the task within 3-4 minutes.

Work in pairs. Look at the spidergram below. Think of different forms of communication to complete the spidergram. Then discuss your results in the group. You have 3 minutes for this task (1 minute to complete the spidergram and 2 minutes to discuss).

Work in small groups. Discuss these questions with regard to you culture. Complete the task within 3-4 minutes.

1 Who should start conversations?

2 Is it acceptable to talk to strangers?

3 What things should or shouldn’t you talk about?

4 Is it acceptable to maintain eye contact with someone you’re talking to?

5 Is it polite to disagree with someone publicly?

Work in pairs. Student A should talk about picture 1 to student B, then student B should talk about picture 2 to student A. Each of you have a minute and a half to complete you task (so together you should talk about 3 minutes).

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