2021-09-29
16 分钟Hi there.
This is teacher Harry here, and welcome back to my lessons.
And the lesson today is all about english phrases for small talk.
English phrases for small talk.
So what does that mean?
Well, as you probably know, small talk is a very important part of the english language.
It's the beginning of many conversations.
It's the ending of many conversations when people are in elevators or lifts before and at the end of business meetings.
Small talk is really important.
And many, many of the students who come to me want to understand small talk, how to begin a conversation, how to end the conversation, because they usually know, and I'm sure you're the same, you usually know the technical language you want to use if you're having a conference call, but you might feel a little bit insecure or a little bit embarrassed or shy about entering the conversation at the beginning, at the end, when they're using small talk.
So this lesson is going to help you, hopefully, with that.
So I'm going to give you small talk on different topics.
So, as we said, this is english phrases for small talk.
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And at the end of the lesson, I'm going to give you my contact details should you wish to contact me.
Okay, so let's get started.
So the first small talk is about the opening conversation.
So when you're meeting somebody in the elevator, as I said, or at the beginning of a presentation, and nowadays at the beginning of Zoom, perhaps while you're waiting for the boss or whoever has organized the meeting, while you're waiting for them to join, there may be a little bit of small talk.
So what sort of opening conversations can you have?
Let me give you a few.