SMALL TALK | How to keep a conversation going in English
7 essential small talk tips to keep a conversation going in English! Let's go!
Starting an English conversation is Step 1... But once you start, it takes work to keep your conversation going! It's disappointing if your conversation stops awkwardly, or it 'fizzes', or 'dries up'! So, in this lesson, I'm sharing my tips to help you have great conversations in English!
Read the full transcript to this video on my blog: mmmenglish.com/2023/08/08/sma...
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0:00 How to keep a conversation going in English
0:50 Practise English Conversations at Hey Lady!
2:13 Make a list of conversation topics
4:07 Ask open questions
5:38 Use question tags
6:44 Active Listening
10:18 Let THEM talk!
11:02 Practise!
11:44 Memorise standard phrases
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Glad you liked it!
Thanks Emma its very interesting.I love your voice and expressions.
Thank you for the tips Emma...🙏 Very useful...
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Love the examples to show us how to react and itnteract
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Wow! those were the great advices and I would like to thank you. I'm pretty happy if you offer me other tips and lessons.
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How useful your videos are. Thanks a lot for sharing it Blessings Beautiful Emma You're a great teacher
I'm so glad to hear that, thanks Maria!
Thank you Emma for emphasizing this golden rule: "Practise, practise practise!"😸
It's the not so secret, secret to success! 😁
Echo questions and paraphrasing are absolutely useful!
They are!
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I'm happy to help!
Hey Amma Like your lesson .
Thank you emma this awesome
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Thank you!
Love your dedication ❤ 👏
I appreciate that! 🤗
Thanks Ms. Emma.❤😊
Hi, Emma Informative lesson about 'small talk'. Appreciate your efforts 👏👏. It is useful to all learners. Thanks and regards,
Thank you, Manish! 😃 Glad you enjoyed it
@@mmmEnglish_Emma my pleasure, Emma
Thank ❤you 👏🏼
Many thanks . Miss Emma . ❤
Great teacher ever
Hi Emma, I appreciate for your distinguished and excellent skill and pattern of teaching. Isn't it?
Thank you Emma for another valuable lesson!
My pleasure! 💖
Thank you!
Hi Emma , thank you for this video, it's very helpful. Please do more video on how to keep a conversation going in English.thank you 😊
Thanks, your suggestions are excellent. Greetings from Argentina !!!
Where have you been for? I missed you a lot, Emma! ❤
I shared a video about it a few weeks ago: kzhead.info/sun/eMeYfKWdZJeGgIk/bejne.html
@@mmmEnglish_Emma Thank you for sharing this video. I think KZhead has not notified me. Oh my goodness, I hope you're totally recovered about your eyes and skin illness, especially your mental health 🙏🏻 I'm sorry that you have passed through this bad moment in your life. We're not made of steel, so our body gives us some alerts. Gladly, you paid attention, heard those signs and took some time to recover yourself! I believe it wasn't an easy decision to be apart, but I know it was the right thing to do because our health needs to be the major priority 🙏🏻 Thank God you look so well! I wish you all blessings and health in your body and soul! 😘
You're the best
I will wait for "Hey, guys" program! Thank you, Emma! ❤
Hallo Emma very good english lessons your pronunciation so clear easy to understand and follow its use for learn some are easy some are difficult
Thanks Emma, your video very useful in small talk, i wish you always pretty and graceful on videos
thank you!
It was really interesting Thanks Emma
Glad you liked it!
well done emma! and team
You are a good actor as well as a teacher
Your video is excellent for everyone including native speakers. Thanks very much Emma for the tips on communication skills.🎉😊
Absoloutely! These tips are relevant to every English speaker :) Hope you are well, Tammy! ✨
THX EMMA!😜
To learn English with Emma a magnificent teacher is always very excited looking forward to new videos always. The way u speak is speechless.
I hope you enjoyed the lesson :)
Sending love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Thank you so much Emma for another beautiful lesson
You're so welcome! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Thanks Emma for your great efforts 😊.
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I'm from Angola-Africa. This is good...
Nice to meet you!
Hello! I'm Timóteo, I live in Angola-Africa . I'd like to buy some english course from begineer to advanced level to improve my english. It's possible you to sell me your english course for me to pay with VISA?
Hello teacher emma , you are clever well prepared teacher who knows how to learn english the student and from now on i will learing your lessons constantly. Thanks
That exactly what I was looking for 🎉
Please consider make a podcast. I love listen to the lessons while I'm working.
Thanks for listening to my lessons! 🥰
The more English lesson you do the more interesting they are . Have a wonderful Day Emma, my favourity Australian English teacher by far. ❤👍
Thank you! 🧡
Thank 🎉❤🎉❤
Emma , you áre a great teacher, I have been your fan for over 7 years here in Brazil.
Ahhh taht's awesome - 'we go way back'!
that is good
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Very useful
Great lesson, i enjoyed a lot especially the quoque scene it was creative and funny 😂😅
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My pleasure! Thanks for watching 🥰
Emma, You teach English very simply and you're a lovely English teacher. I'm engrossed in watching your vedios. Thank you for all you've done for all of us ❤🙌
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How beautiful your speech, teaching method and smiling face. You superb, wish you all the best Loving Emma. 🥰
Dear Emma, Thank you so much for your great video 🙏 💝. As a superb teacher, you are able to grab our attention and interest to learn English better and deeper. How cool you are. I really do appreciate it.
Thank you, Leila! I'm so happy to hear that :)
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Hello.Emma. te quiero muchísimo. Thanks for all your helps on teaching us.
You're so welcome!
I’m a native English speaker and I find your information helpful because I am struggling so badly communicating with my 18 year old son who has severed the relationship. I’m going to use your techniques. I want to tell you in the most non critical way…you encourage “practise” “practise” “practise” which I intend on doing, however, it’s not spelled “practise.” The correct English spelling is “practice” 😊 thank you
Hi Emma glad to see you again on KZhead
Thanks! Glad to be back! 😊
In September, I"m going to Minnesota on my vacation, and I have been studing to refresh all those grammar rules and all tips and ideas that can help me have a good and understandable conversation. 😂😂 It has been hard to learn and remember, but I hope to do well when I meet my friends in Minnesota again. Thanks Emma for all your video, love from Puerto Rico 🤗💖
What a fantastic opportunity! I'm sure that your English will come back to you surprisingly fast as you immerse yourself - take every opportunity to practise and know that each mistake will remind you how to improve! Good luck!!
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Thank you Emma for this lesson It's truly useful❤
You're so welcome, it makes me happy to hear you found it helpful 🤩
Well, hey there, my dear Emma! It's so good to meet you here every Tuesday! 👍(although I try to watch some kind of your lessons every single day for improving my listening skills in English)!!! I just enjoy listening to your soft and clear tone of voice, the truth!🥰🥰🥰 My *hats off to* Shah for taking part in the lesson, he's a good guy! Amazing video! Your lessons are always *the* *best things since sliced bread!* (I've learnt that idiom recently) Keep it up!😊😊😊 I love you either a brilliant English Coach or a gorgeous attractive woman! 💘💘💘
haha... yes I had a little help with this one! 🤣
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Pratice, practice you are right. I've been living in Brasil for more than 30 years and everything i'm in touch in the internet is in English or french and i speak spanish and português too and practice is all about.
happy 2 see u💕💐💐
Happy to see you too!
Teacher 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks
Thanks 😊
You're welcome!
so nice video
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Now discovered your page. You're a great English/Communication Studies teacher. Keep up the great work.
Oh, thank you!
Thanks emma
Hello my favorite English teacher.thanks alot for your kind. I'm happy that nowadays my English is improving better than before because of you here as always.from Nepal.🇳🇵
So happy I'm able to help you learn and improve!
@@mmmEnglish_Emmadistance is nothing if we have passion to learn and teach as being kindly.thanks once again dear respected teacher.
Yes, certainly agree with you Emma absolutely. The real live small talk should occur as so spontaneously and freely as you can do that on your own! Generally speaking, I finally was able to start speaking in English owing to these essential advice you're talking about in the lesson, that has helped me very very much! I wish all the student would be able to come through the same way!
To speak spontaneously and freely is the goal! 🤩 Do you have any tips or recommendations to practise small talk, Dave?
@@mmmEnglish_Emma That needs to be a main goal, I'd even say so, Emma! Yeah, surely, I can give some piece of advice 'n' recommendations for starting English learners. I can share my own experience, my own way to fluency in English. I began to have practice in English whilst I was living in my country. I was Skype programe to connect with other students around the world, we were talking to each other about simple topics, discussing daily issues by using simple vocabulary 'n' grammar. Not only did I chat with my friends on Skype but also I was learning more complex English grammar simultaneously! I had three greatest books (I'm convinced, you know them Emma!), they're still with me. Only later, unless I moved to an English-speaking country, I started to leverage everything I knew 'n' learnt, I immersed myself in English at once, tried to talk to strangers, at hotels, cafes, in a taxi, on buses, trams... Subsequently, I was feeling that I was boosting all of my English skills whether it's a listening, speaking, reading, writing or pronunciation, the real practice with natives has given me a gigantic progress! I'm sorry about there weren't such fabulous lessons like yours, Emma but luckily I managed to perform my difficulties! I managed to *break the ice!* (cool idiom, isn't it?) For some moment, I just felt I could get more, much more! In other words, I couldn't put up with a minimum, I've always wanted to get more, as much as I was capable to perceive! It seemed to me, I was capable of getting better 'n' better in my hard work in English, a lot more!.. As a result, I learned to comprehend an English fast speech like my native one! It was the supreme goal for me that moment! I've reached that! That long process wasn't easy at all, you know! Finally, I actually have what I really have! Additionaly, I'm undoubtedly so proud of being your faithful student, dear Emma!
Emma you're all lessons are amazing isn't it. 🙂
All your lessons are amazing, aren't they? ✅ (and thank you ❤)
Thankyou for correction ☑🙂
@@rupalikumari7320 here is the link to my lesson about question tags! mmmenglish.com/2017/04/03/questions-tags/ There are some simple rules to help you use them accurately!
Out of All english teachers , you are the best one Emma, greeting from Indonesia
Thank you!
To telling the truth - to listening You and your lessons is much more easy than to talk face to face with other ordinary people ... For example - on the street or shopping.
Yes true - there are many other things that happen in real-world contexts - background noise, distractions, tone, body language - in addition to accent, pace of speech, slang, etc. I would encourage you to think about every new conversation opportunity as 'experience' - you are broadening your experience in English conversations and each time you encounter a challenging situation, you are building your experience & your ability to manage the situation better next time!
@@mmmEnglish_Emma Yes, I'm looking for native speakers Emma now. Well, it's hard to belive but I started my English in ... 1989/90 (!!!) but there was NO REGULAR English ... in these years. :( I'm going to change this - seriously, at last! Thanks to You too Emma! Thank you for the answer ! :) And Best Regards to You. :))
Your videos are wonderful and this one in no exception. I'll definitely share it with my students. And you look charming. as usual.
Cool!
There are lots of imformative English videos in your mmmEnglish Channel, thanks you to provide us a great content, Great work Emma and mmmEnglish, Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰❤️
It's my pleasure!
Hi, Emma! I see you stayed with this line about small things. It can really add to English if you have a partner to speak with. Thank you.
Absolutely! Start implementing some of these tips and your English conversations will flow better ✨
@@mmmEnglish_Emma sure
It was a good timing I saw your learning English speaking skills videos as I just started working in an office environment in English speaking country. This will help me. What books or online (grammar and to improving english advanced)you can suggest for me to learn. Many thanks.
I love the questions tags 😍😍
A very essential skill to have in any language, not just English!
Here is the link to my full lesson about question tags mmmenglish.com/2017/04/03/questions-tags/ There are some simple rules which will help you use them accurately!
The quality of the contents in your video is awesome, very helpful and meaningful 👍👏👏👏 Emma you're a wonderful woman and a, sorry... My reference as an English teacher ❤🙏
Thank you for your lovely comment!
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