Conversation Confidence Making small talk Starts and Ends
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Before we get started
 2 Topics
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Say hello
Making small talk
 30 Topics
Starts and Ends
Saying how you are
Saying thank you
How to pay compliments
Starts and Ends – Exercises
Icebreakers: Finding mutual links
Icebreakers: Finding mutual links – exercises
Follow up questions
Follow up questions – exercises
Open and closed questions
Open and closed questions – exercises
More questions to break the ice
More questions to break the ice – exercises
Commenting and Reacting
Commenting and Reacting – Exercises
Prompting conversation
Prompting conversation – exercises
Conversation Fillers
Conversation Fillers – exercises
Paraphrasing
1 of 2
Conversations with strangers
 11 Topics
Short interactions
Short interactions exercises
Asking for something
Asking for something exercises
Making requests
Making requests exercises
Ordering
Ordering exercises
More useful phrases
More useful phrases exercises
Challenge 2
Bringing descriptions to life
 9 Topics
Describing people – adjectives
Describing people – more adjectives
Describing yourself
Describing a friend
Negative descriptions
Ser and estar with descriptions
Describing places
A description of Moniquira
Challenge 3
Telling a narrative
 8 Topics
Preterite vs imperfect
Time phrases with the imperfect
Imperfect practice
Time phrases with the preterite
Preterite exercises
Common Tense Combinations
Real life narratives
Challenge 4
Self Expression
 9 Topics
Gustar and Reverse Construction Verbs
Practice with Gustar
Going Beyond Gustar
Describing Emotions
Emotions with the Subjunctive
Agreeing and Disagreeing
Subtle ways to agree and disagree
Should unpaid internships be banned?
Challenge 5
Getting Stuff Done
 6 Topics
Simple Requests and Offers
Starting an argument
Connecting ideas in an argument
Concluding an argument
Talent vs hard work
Challenge 6
Return to Conversation Confidence
Forum

Starts and Ends

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