The document provides instructions for teachers to hold a conversation with students about grammar lessons and topics from the week. The teacher should warn students that the conversation depends on their participation and explain how conversations have question and answer parts. During the conversation, the teacher should ensure all students ask and answer questions, and students should ask the teacher to repeat or slow down if needed. The goal is for students to practice conversational skills for 20 minutes at the end of class.

1. HOW TO MAKE A CONVERSATION
1. Tell the students that you’re going to make a conversation with them. This conversation is about
the actual unit, grammar lessons and topics they’re seeing during the week.
(You name the unit, the unit’s name and the unit’s main topic/s.)
2. Warn them that you want a profitable and productive conversation, and that it will depend on
them if this is a productive conversation or a poor one. Explain that the harder they try the more
they will develop their conversational skills and lose the fear of speaking.
3. Ask them to choose between productive or poor? They’ll answer; productive!!!
4. Warn them that a conversation has two main parts: 1. knowing how to ask / formulate a question.
2. Knowing how to answer / formulate an answer.
5. Tell them that when they converse with other people, specially from other countries;
a) If they don’t understand the question the first time, they should ask the asker:
“Can you repeat the question please?”
b) If they feel that the other person is talking too fast they should ask:
“Can you speak slower please? I’m learning English.”
c) When someone asks the student a question, they should answer quickly, not stay serious or deaf.
d) If the question that someone else asks requires you to think a bit before you answer, you should
say: “Hum, it’s a tough question, let me think for a moment.”
6. Make a round of questions for 70% of the group, and then the rest of the group asks you.
Do the same procedure but rolling the turns on the students.
7. Make sure you ask everyone and everyone asks you complete, correct and good questions.
8. Students should answer with the same auxiliaries you ask them.
9. Answers shall not be poor or mediocre.
10. At the end of the class if they did well congratulate them and tell them you want them to be
better next time.
11. Conversations shall last 20 complete minutes and shall be done in the last part of a Friday,
Saturday or Sunday class.
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