Lesson 9 — Conversation Strategies (Shoppping)

Mini-presentation
In this lesson we heard from Yu about Hawaii.

Conversation Strategies (Shoppping)
We learned three new strategies to talk about shopping.

1. Showing interest: Oh really? Oh yeah? — these phrases show that you are interested in what your partner is saying. The intonation is important.
2. Showing you are listening: Uh huh. Mm-hmm.  When your partner is speaking for a while, using this strategy will help them know you are listening.
3. Introducing a question: So… You can use this strategy to ask a new question. 

Older Conversation Strategies
Don't forget to use the strategies we have used before.

1. How about you?
2. Pardon me?
3. Repeating
4. Hmm…let me see.

Announcement
We will not have class on May 21 because I will be at a conference.