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Small talk

• Introducing two strangers to each other
  
• Meeting people
  
• Telephoning
  
• Telling time
  
• Asking about health
  
• Asking people to repeat
  
• Getting people's attention and offering apologies
  
• Names and titles
  
• Wishing people
  
• Saying Thanks
  
• Saying Please
  
• Meals, drinking
  

Discourse markers

• Showing one's attitude to what one is saying
  
• Persuading
  
• Hopes and expectations
  
• Talking about the weather
  
• Talking about general aches and pains
  
• Giving opinions
  
• Talking about general likes and dislikes
  
• Focusing and linking ideas
  
• Contrasting points
  
• Talking about ability
  
• Showing exphasis
  
• The addition of contraries to remarks already made New!
  

English speaking - Conversational structures

• Conversational structures with let
  
• Conversational structures with need
  
• Conversational structures with used-to
  
• Conversational structures with had better
  
• Conversational structures with if New!
  
• Conversational structures with going to New!
  
• Conversational structures with in case New!
  
• Conversational structures with feel New!
  
• Conversational structures with perfect infinitive New!
  
• Conversational structures with for New!
  
• Conversational structures with get New!
  
• Conversational structures with the... the... New!
  
• Conversational structures with too...to New!
  

See Also

• Common usage dilemmas of ESL students New!
  

How to succeed in interviews?

• Introduction
  
• Interviewing technique
  
• Questions that may be asked
  
• What to say and what not to say
  
• Cliches to avoid
  

Going Deeper

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