Category: Speaking

Activity Book Pages: 217 pages

Audio Files: None

Level: Intermidiate

Price: $1.25

File Type: PDF Files

ISBN: 9780198850694

Prologue:

English has no shortage of words to describe conversations, and our manner of speaking, and no shortage of authors who have reflected on them. Some examples: badinage, banter, blether, blurt, burble...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors. for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life) The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. (William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker' ...chaff, chat, chatter, chit-chat, chitter-chatter, confab...

'So. let me show you how a conversation works. I say something. and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.' 'Huh?' I say. (Jodi Picoult. Between the Lines) Whenever Percy stopped by to see her [AnnabetH, she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going? Annabeth:11h. no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay ... have you eaten anything today? Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay. in a while.'(Rick Riordan. The Mork of Athena)

...gab, gas, go on, gossip, gush... The whole force of conversation depends on how much you can take for granted. (Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table) It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays.

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Written by: David Crystal

Illustrated by: Lib Stephen

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