ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN GROUPS

Speak Now is a fourlevel speaking course which develops students communication skills both in and out of the classroom. Every activity in Speak Now includes a speaking component. Video activities are integrated every four lessons, providing reallife language models for students. Speak Now can also b[r]

but it is difficult for them to use English to communicate. To help the students improve the skills, it isnecessary to find factors that affect students ‘speaking and listening skills, so that the teachers can dealwith these factors to help the[r]

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maintain relationships, gossip, etc. From the survey results, we see the main purpose of communication inthe company is to swap jobs (62%), followed by establishing and maintaining relationships (24%), lowestin the chat (4%). Therefore, we can see that the purpose of the communicati[r]

Speak Now is a fourlevel speaking course which develops students communication skills both in and out of the classroom. Every activity in Speak Now includes a speaking component. Video activities are integrated every four lessons, providing reallife language models for students. Speak Now can also b[r]

Different friends or similar friends?When we choose friends, they can have personalities similar to oursor can be completely different from us. If people are similar to us,the mutual cooperation can be an important advantage. If people aredifferent from us, we will see the advantages <[r]

Who talk more – men or women? Most people believe that women talk more. However,
linguist Deborah Tannen, who has studied the communication style of men and women, says that
this is a stereotype. According to Tannen, women are more verbal – talk more – in private
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ACTIVITY SHEETEPISODE 13: READING SKILLS AND QUESTION TYPESPractise and consolidate your learning by completing our activities. Both activities referto Reading Passage 1 which you will find on page 3.The answers for all activities are on the last page.ACTIVITY 1Use the