Speak Confident English Networking in English: Conversation Strategies
Speak Confident English Networking in English: Conversation Strategies presents six strategies for talking with new people at professional events. Annemarie Fowler, the teacher behind Speak Confident English, explains each strategy and follows it with example phrases: open questions, lines for reflecting back what you heard, and plain self-introductions. Three practice situations close the lesson.
100% Free (unlimited): The whole lesson is open to any reader, with no account and no sign-up. The six strategies, the lists of open questions, the reflecting-back examples, the self-introduction lines and the three practice situations are all on the page, as is the comment thread where learners post their own answers and the teacher replies.
How It Helps Your Business English
The lesson sets out six strategies for networking in English: preparing questions before the event, reframing how you think about small talk, asking open rather than yes-or-no questions, finding shared interests, being ready to answer your own question, and introducing yourself plainly. Example phrases follow each strategy, with three practice situations at the end.
You can take the open questions and the reflecting-back lines straight from the page and prepare two or three before an event, which is what the lesson advises if you need time to think in English. The questions it marks as conversation stoppers show you what to replace. At the end you can post your own opening line for one of the three situations in the comments and read the teacher's replies to other learners.
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