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Vocabulary: communication

Communicating: this necessity has always been kept in the peoples' minds... If different methods have tried and will go on trying to make exchanges easier, "oral communication", SPEECH, is indispensable. It takes different forms which must be identified and if possible mastered...

To chat To gossip

To speak to sb about sth	To address sb
To talk to sb about sth	To tell sth to sb
To say sth to sb	To listen TO sb
To ask a question	To ask whether To enquire whether
To ask/ enquire after sb	To answer a question
To answer/ reply/ respond that	An answer/ a reply/ a response
To retort that	A retort

When should you use "say"? When should you use "tell"? Go to ... test

To converse with (sb about sth)	a conversation
A talk	a discussion
A chat	to chat with/ to have a chat with
A dialogue (British English)/ a dialog (US)	a monologue/ a monolog
To chatter	a chatterbox
To gossip with sb about sth	gossip
To confide in sb about sth	to joke with sb about sth
To buttonhole sb	small talk
To be articulate	loquacious
Talkative/ chatty	garrulous
Eloquent	eloquence

To chatter I can't defend my behaviour...

SOME EXPRESSIONS:

- To start up a conversation with sb

- To have a conversation with sb about sth/ to hold a conversation with sb about sth

- To make conversation with sb

- To keep the conversation going

- I had to do all the talking

- To have a good sense of humour

- To be good at repartee

- To talk for the sake of it/ for the sake of talking

- To exchange pleasantries/ banalities

- To make remarks about it

- To have no small talk/ to have no conversation

- To have nothing to say for oneself

- To be at a loss for words

- To be tongue-tied

unable to speak; speechless or befuddled to be tongue-tied

Shy	shyness
To be embarrassed	embarrassment
Stilted	formal/ informal
An insult	abuse (singular)
Insulting	abusive
A snub	to snub somebody

MORE EXPRESSIONS: (giving your opinion...)

- in my opinion/ in my view...

- according to him (on the report of; as stated by him)

- as far as I'm concerned

- I would like to point out that...

- I must emphasize that...(I should lay stress on...)

- I don't see what you're driving at... (: what your intentions are...)

- I get the impression that/ I feel that...

- If I may say so...

- It depends how you look at it...

You see! There are many ways to express our feelings and emotions. I'm sure you'll use the right forms quite easily: I hope so!

Thanks for working with me!

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1. In front of the audience, when he was about to tell the poem he had written, Timothy was , blushed and started crying.

2. 'Hearing you about the new neighbours with your friends was really irritating.'

3. 'Lucy, your school mistress has told me that you are much too in class.If you go on, you’ll be punished.'

4. 'When I saw the present she offered me, I was so moved that I was and couldn’t even utter 'Thank you!''

5. 'If you use language at work, you’ll never get the promotion you’re expecting.'

6. 'When Patty started talking and talking, I immediately imagined what she , but she didn’t dare to ask frankly.'

7. Susie is extremely shy and as she didn’t dare to say anything, I , and it was quite embarrassing.

8. My British friend has . I think he’s very funny, but not everybody understands him.

9. 'Yes, really, I’m sorry.I shouldn’t have done that. Really, I . I have no excuses.'

10. 'You shouldn’t his family.He’s quite touchy about them.'

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