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Vocabulary: communication - English lesson

 To chat                                                     To gossip

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

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

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 tongue tiedarticulateeloquentI don't know, blushed and started crying.



2. 'Hearing you insultconfidegossipI don't know about the new neighbours with your friends was really irritating.'



3. 'Lucy, your school mistress has told me that you are much too abusivestiltedtalkativeI don't know 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 insultingif I may say soat a loss for wordsI don't know and couldn’t even utter 'Thank you!''



5. 'If you use abusiveeloquentgarrulousI don't know language at work, you’ll never get the promotion you’re expecting.'



6. 'When Patty started talking and talking, I immediately imagined what she was driving atretortedwas at a loss forI don't know, but she didn’t dare to ask frankly.'



7. Susie is extremely shy and as she didn’t dare to say anything, I had to do all the talkingwas tongue-tiedhad a sense of humourI don't know, and it was quite embarrassing.



8. My British friend has a very good sense of humourmade good remarkspointed out thatI don't know. 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 exchanged banalitiesdon't see what you're driving athave nothing to say for myselfI don't know. I have no excuses.'



10. 'You shouldn’t joke with him abouttalk for the sake ofbe at a loss forI don't know his family.He’s quite touchy about them.'