2017-02-22 Daily Life: small talk techniques

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Write a list of the things you do between now and this class tomorrow, including the time.
Compare your list with your partner. Who had a busier day? Who got more rest?
Ask questions to find out more information if your partner did something interesting.
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Adjectives for nationalities:
-an: American, Canadian, Mexican, Brazilian, Norwegian, Korean, Saudi Arabian, German
-ish: British, Irish, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, French, Turkish
-ese: Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Sudanese, Lebanese
-i: Saudi, Iraqi, Emirati, Kuwaiti, Israeli, Omani, Yemeni
other: Thai, Swiss, Dutch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and_demonymic_forms_for_countries_and_nations
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Small talk: small conversation, often with people you don’t know very well
It’s polite to show that you are paying attention to someone who is talking to you.
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Echo questions: These can rise or fall in intonation, because you’re not really asking a new question. You use the auxiliary verb that’s normal if you make the statement a question, but you don’t have to complete the whole question.
part 1 - Complete the conversations with the correct echo questions, and then practice saying them with rising or falling intonation.
1 Do you?
2 Does she?
3 Did you?
4 Is it?
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Echo questions only show that I’m interested in what you said.
If I’m surprised, I ask a question (rising intonation) with the words in the opposite order.
	I like pop music.
	You do? I thought you hated it.
If I already know this and want to agree with you, I make a statement (falling intonation) in the opposite order:
	I like pop music.
	You do.
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Echo words: repeat key words (not a full question or statement). This often shows that I’m surprised about that information. Intonation can be rising or falling.
Write (and practice) echo words for the conversations part 2
1 Italy / Next week
2 Two hours
3 A new job / Harry
4 Yesterday / Sophia
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Homework: write five follow-up wh- questions to the statement, “I went to the cinema yesterday.”