Small talk is an important part of developing good conversation skills. It involves learning about the other person's interests through listening and asking open-ended questions. Discussions should stay away from sensitive topics like religion, politics, illness or death. Good small talk focuses on lighter subjects like the weather, movies, hobbies or work to find common ground and get a sense of who the other person is in a low-pressure way.

1. Small Talk,anyone? Or the 1st step to good conversation skills

2. What Is Small Talk?

3. Let’s get to know each other better!

4. What do you mean?

5. Find out what the other person’s interests are.

6. Do you have things in common?

7. What should you do?

8. Do you see any clues about their interests?

12. Nod

13. Uh-huh

14. Really?

15. And then what?Do

16. Don’t

17. Take Turns to Talk

19. Politics

20. Death

21. Illness

23. Good Topics? Good Topics ! Weather School Work Hobbies Movies

24. In small talk, we express ourselves in the details of what we talk about, the words we use, the ones we don’t, how far we lean forward, how tentatively or aggressively we probe for shared ground. Because all of this is implicitly presented, it tends to give a more accurate picture of who we are and what we care about than big, explicit conversations.