The document outlines tips for improving conversation skills, including listening actively without distraction, asking open-ended questions, sharing stories and experiences, providing feedback and acknowledging others, and practicing conversations. It discusses features of good conversations such as building trust and credibility through self-expression and interaction. Finally, it proposes a group activity to practice conversations by writing dialogues in different situations.

1. Conversation Skills

2. Outline
• Introduction: Conversation Skills
• Features of a Good Conversation
• Tips for Improving Conversations
• Group Activity
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3. Introduction: Conversation Skills
• A method of self-expression and interaction
Hi! I am
A. I Hello! I am B. I
work for am a business
XYZ man.
• Building trust and credibility
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4. Introduction: Conversation Skills (2)
• Require effort, focus and practice
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5. Features of a Good Conversation
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6. Tips for Improving Conversations
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7. Tips for Improving Conversations (2)
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8. Tips for Improving Conversations (3)
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9. To be a Good Conversationalist
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10. To be a Good Conversationalist (2)
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11. Group Activity
Write dialogues in conversational tone for the
following situations in about 150 words:
1.A conversation between two friends regarding the
existence of God as one believes in the existence of God
whereas the other does not.
2.A conversation between two strangers on a train journey.
One passenger is from Bihar and the other is from
Maharashtra. Make it political.
3.A conversation between you and a stranger who is asking
you about a location of a house in your locality.
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