Questions For Conversation - anglais-facile.com

55 Pages·2011·0.76 MB·English

by  Jonathan Lewis

Questions
For
Conversation
Communication Practice for
the Real World
by
Jonathan Lewis
anglais-facile.com
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Contents:
Introduction
How to Use this Book
Part One: General English
1. Getting to Know You
2. Hobbies/Interests
3. Exchanging Information
4. My Job
5. Work
6. Family
7. The Weather, Climate change
8. Countries and Nationalities
9. Money
10. Banks, Finance, Markets
11. Travel: Planes and Airports
12. Travel: Holidays, Hotels, Sightseeing
13. Technology: Phones, Ipods, Gadgets
14. Environment: Threats and Opportunities
15. Food and Drink
16. Food: Recipes
17. Entertainment
18. Drugs and Medicine
19. Animals and Pets
20. Politics and Government
21. Crime and Justice
22. Art
23. Movies/Cinema
24. News/Media
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25. Shopping
26. Music
27. Sports
28. Languages
29. Appearance, Clothes
30. Personalities
31. Cars, Vehicles
32. Science
Part Two: Professional English
33. Job Interview questions
34. Business: the Economy
35. Business: Outsourcing
36. Business: Industries in Your Country
37. Business: Cultural Differences
38. Business: Doing a SWOT Analysis
39. Business Meetings: Problem Solving
40. Business Meetings: a New Product
41. Business Meetings: Marketing Campaign
42. Business Meetings: Cost-Cutting
43. Business Meetings: Productivity
44. Business Meetings: Going Green
45. Sales and Selling
Part Three : Other Communication Activities
46. Invitations
47. Desert Island Disks
48. Survival
49. Fortunately, Unfortunately
50. What Would You Do?
51. Have You Ever...?
52. What to Look for in a Job
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Introduction
Thank you for taking the time to download this e-book of
conversation questions. As you are able to read this document in
English, you must already be able to understand written English.
However, passive understanding or even a good knowledge of
English grammar and vocabulary is not enough to be able to speak
English well.
The only real solution is to practise as much as you can. That's why
I've created this e-book. It is intended to help you with your
conversation skills. You can use the questions to practise with your
friends and colleagues or with your teacher if you are taking
lessons.
If you are interested in taking conversation lessons with me, feel
free to contact me at [email protected] for information
about prices and availability.
How to use this book
Just choose any topic that interests you and think of how you would
answer the questions. You might like to memorise some of the
questions. This has two advantages:
1. You will learn the structure of questions in English.
2. You will be able to use them in conversations in the 'real
world'.
Try to practise asking and answering the questions with someone
who can speak English better than you.
Be sure to visit my websites, www.jonathansenglish.com and
www.anglais-facile.com (for French speakers) for lots of resources
and advice about language learning.
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1
General
conversation
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1. Getting to Know You
1.
• What's your name?
• Where do you live?
• How long have lived there?
• What's your job?
• Where were you born?
• Are you married, single, divorced or living with
someone?
• Do you have any children? If yes, how old are they?
• What do you do in your free time?
• What kind of music do you listen to?
• Do you like it where you live? Why/why not?
• Tell me about three things that you hate
• What makes you laugh?
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2. Hobbies, Interests, Free Time
• What do you do in your free time?
• How often do you … (do, go, play etc)
• How long have you ... (done, played, )
• Are you a member of a club?
• Is your hobby expensive?
• Does anyone in your family share your hobby?
• What advice would you give someone who wanted to
do your hobby?
• Do you think you will still be doing this hobby in five or
ten years from now?
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3. Exchanging Information
• What's your name? Could you spell it please?
• What's your address? Could you spell that please?
• What's your telephone number? Can you repeat that
please?
• What's your email address? was that all one word or
with a dash/a dot?
• What day is it today?
• What's the date today?
• Can we make an appointment for next week? What day
is good for you? What time?
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4. My Job
• What do you do? (what's your job?)
• Who do you work for?
• How long have you worked there?
• What are your responsibilities?
• What do you like about your job?
• What don't you like about your job?
• If you could do any job, what job would you choose?
• What job do you think you will be doing in five or ten
years from now?
• How did you get this job (talk about qualifications,
training, experience, and how you found the job, the
interview etc)
• What skills do you need to do your job?
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