SMALL TALK | How to keep a conversation going in English
7 essential small talk tips to keep a conversation going in English! Let's go!
Starting an English conversation is Step 1... But once you start, it takes work to keep your conversation going! It's disappointing if your conversation stops awkwardly, or it 'fizzes', or 'dries up'! So, in this lesson, I'm sharing my tips to help you have great conversations in English!
Read the full transcript to this video on my blog: mmmenglish.com/2023/08/08/sma...
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0:00 How to keep a conversation going in English
0:50 Practise English Conversations at Hey Lady!
2:13 Make a list of conversation topics
4:07 Ask open questions
5:38 Use question tags
6:44 Active Listening
10:18 Let THEM talk!
11:02 Practise!
11:44 Memorise standard phrases
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I'm from India and you teach very good. Thanks teacher. ❤
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thank you, nice to see you here :)
My favourite teacher in the whole world
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
That's sweet!
My English voice 😊, I’ve never thought about it🎉
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
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👋 thanks good video 👏
Dear english teacher , i am voracious to watch your vivacious practical english lessons. Thank you so much. May your shadow never grow less.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
WOW! Love this language 🤩
Hi Emma... Kind regards from Bs. As. Argentina... Mmm English with you Emma, Aussie English with Pete, English with Max, 100% Australian English!! All the best, Rodolfo
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Yeah the Aussies! 🇦🇺
Thank you Emma for emphasizing this golden rule: "Practise, practise practise!"😸
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
It's the not so secret, secret to success! 😁
Where have you been for? I missed you a lot, Emma! ❤
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
I shared a video about it a few weeks ago: kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5eTrqOeXci2fbQ.html
@hilder1076
8 ай бұрын
@@mmmEnglish_Emma Thank you for sharing this video. I think KZread has not notified me. Oh my goodness, I hope you're totally recovered about your eyes and skin illness, especially your mental health 🙏🏻 I'm sorry that you have passed through this bad moment in your life. We're not made of steel, so our body gives us some alerts. Gladly, you paid attention, heard those signs and took some time to recover yourself! I believe it wasn't an easy decision to be apart, but I know it was the right thing to do because our health needs to be the major priority 🙏🏻 Thank God you look so well! I wish you all blessings and health in your body and soul! 😘
Great! You are killing the web with these videos :)
Your videos of English are absolutely 💯 awesome 👌 and useful 👍 👌. You taught me all those lessons which I didn't learn in school. Your videos are amazing 👏 keep shining ✨
Thses lessons really i needed to learn 🤗🤗
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
I'm happy to help!
Thanks, your suggestions are excellent. Greetings from Argentina !!!
Love your dedication ❤ 👏
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
I appreciate that! 🤗
Echo questions and paraphrasing are absolutely useful!
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
They are!
Hello Emma! Following you is the best way to improve my english day after day! I really appreciate the way you are teaching us all those little words or expressions that definitively stay in our mind. Thank you so much for your excellent work! Philip, from Tours, France
Thank you for the tips Emma...🙏 Very useful...
The best teacher I've ever had! And the most beautiful too!😍
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
I'm so happy to hear that!
I loved this lesson. ❤❤❤❤
Thanks Emma its very interesting.I love your voice and expressions.
I'm from Angola-Africa. This is good...
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Nice to meet you!
@timoteoosvaldobonguesambog8267
8 ай бұрын
Hello! I'm Timóteo, I live in Angola-Africa . I'd like to buy some english course from begineer to advanced level to improve my english. It's possible you to sell me your english course for me to pay with VISA?
Lovely teacher😍
Hi teacher. God bless you
How useful your videos are. Thanks a lot for sharing it Blessings Beautiful Emma You're a great teacher
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
I'm so glad to hear that, thanks Maria!
Thank you Emma for another valuable lesson!
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
My pleasure! 💖
Wow! those were the great advices and I would like to thank you. I'm pretty happy if you offer me other tips and lessons.
Good Job Thank you sister have a Great week 👌
Thanks Emma for your great efforts 😊.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
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Thank you so much Emma for another beautiful lesson
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
You're so welcome! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Thank you!
Many thanks . Miss Emma . ❤
Thanks Ms. Emma.❤😊
Hi, Emma Informative lesson about 'small talk'. Appreciate your efforts 👏👏. It is useful to all learners. Thanks and regards,
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thank you, Manish! 😃 Glad you enjoyed it
@ManishSharma-sk2zh
8 ай бұрын
@@mmmEnglish_Emma my pleasure, Emma
I love you teacher 💘
Emma , you áre a great teacher, I have been your fan for over 7 years here in Brazil.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Ahhh taht's awesome - 'we go way back'!
@zemartins5170
8 ай бұрын
that is good
@zemartins5170
8 ай бұрын
Ok
Greetings from Guatemala 🇬🇹 Central America, beautiful Lady❤
I’m form Saudi Arabia, I’m so proud of you & you great teacher 💓💓
Thanks my dear Emma!! Great english class❤ ❤
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
My pleasure! Thanks for watching 🥰
Thank you 🙌🏻🙌🏻
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching 💖
Thank you emma this awesome
Hi Emma, I appreciate for your distinguished and excellent skill and pattern of teaching. Isn't it?
To learn English with Emma a magnificent teacher is always very excited looking forward to new videos always. The way u speak is speechless.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
I hope you enjoyed the lesson :)
Great teacher ever
Hi Emma , thank you for this video, it's very helpful. Please do more video on how to keep a conversation going in English.thank you 😊
Your video is excellent for everyone including native speakers. Thanks very much Emma for the tips on communication skills.🎉😊
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Absoloutely! These tips are relevant to every English speaker :) Hope you are well, Tammy! ✨
Thank ❤you 👏🏼
thank you!
Please consider make a podcast. I love listen to the lessons while I'm working.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for listening to my lessons! 🥰
Out of All english teachers , you are the best one Emma, greeting from Indonesia
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thank you!
It was really interesting Thanks Emma
@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it!
happy 2 see u💕💐💐
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Happy to see you too!
Thanks a million.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it!
Now discovered your page. You're a great English/Communication Studies teacher. Keep up the great work.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Oh, thank you!
The more English lesson you do the more interesting they are . Have a wonderful Day Emma, my favourity Australian English teacher by far. ❤👍
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thank you! 🧡
Dear Emma, Thank you so much for your great video 🙏 💝. As a superb teacher, you are able to grab our attention and interest to learn English better and deeper. How cool you are. I really do appreciate it.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thank you, Leila! I'm so happy to hear that :)
@LeilaAghaei-un6oj
8 ай бұрын
@@mmmEnglish_EmmaYou are most welcome.
Great lesson, i enjoyed a lot especially the quoque scene it was creative and funny 😂😅
Emma, You teach English very simply and you're a lovely English teacher. I'm engrossed in watching your vedios. Thank you for all you've done for all of us ❤🙌
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Ah you're welcome - I'm happy to hear that!
Sending love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Emma you're all lessons are amazing isn't it. 🙂
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
All your lessons are amazing, aren't they? ✅ (and thank you ❤)
@rupalikumari7320
8 ай бұрын
Thankyou for correction ☑🙂
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
@@rupalikumari7320 here is the link to my lesson about question tags! mmmenglish.com/2017/04/03/questions-tags/ There are some simple rules to help you use them accurately!
Hello.Emma. te quiero muchísimo. Thanks for all your helps on teaching us.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
You're so welcome!
well done emma! and team
Hello my favorite English teacher.thanks alot for your kind. I'm happy that nowadays my English is improving better than before because of you here as always.from Nepal.🇳🇵
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
So happy I'm able to help you learn and improve!
@BelieveInTheTruth.
8 ай бұрын
@@mmmEnglish_Emmadistance is nothing if we have passion to learn and teach as being kindly.thanks once again dear respected teacher.
Hallo Emma very good english lessons your pronunciation so clear easy to understand and follow its use for learn some are easy some are difficult
How beautiful your speech, teaching method and smiling face. You superb, wish you all the best Loving Emma. 🥰
THX EMMA!😜
You're the best
That exactly what I was looking for 🎉
Love the examples to show us how to react and itnteract
I will wait for "Hey, guys" program! Thank you, Emma! ❤
Good job!👏👏👏👏thanks👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🥰😜😍
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
It's my pleasure! 😊
Thanks Emma, your video very useful in small talk, i wish you always pretty and graceful on videos
You are a good actor as well as a teacher
Hello teacher emma , you are clever well prepared teacher who knows how to learn english the student and from now on i will learing your lessons constantly. Thanks
Well, hey there, my dear Emma! It's so good to meet you here every Tuesday! 👍(although I try to watch some kind of your lessons every single day for improving my listening skills in English)!!! I just enjoy listening to your soft and clear tone of voice, the truth!🥰🥰🥰 My *hats off to* Shah for taking part in the lesson, he's a good guy! Amazing video! Your lessons are always *the* *best things since sliced bread!* (I've learnt that idiom recently) Keep it up!😊😊😊 I love you either a brilliant English Coach or a gorgeous attractive woman! 💘💘💘
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
haha... yes I had a little help with this one! 🤣
@nupuryasmin
8 ай бұрын
Many participants
Thank you Emma for this lesson It's truly useful❤
@mmmEnglish_Emma
6 ай бұрын
You're so welcome, it makes me happy to hear you found it helpful 🤩
Hi Emma glad to see you again on KZread
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thanks! Glad to be back! 😊
Your videos are wonderful and this one in no exception. I'll definitely share it with my students. And you look charming. as usual.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Cool!
Amazing 🎉🎉
Pratice, practice you are right. I've been living in Brasil for more than 30 years and everything i'm in touch in the internet is in English or french and i speak spanish and português too and practice is all about.
I love the questions tags 😍😍
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
A very essential skill to have in any language, not just English!
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Here is the link to my full lesson about question tags mmmenglish.com/2017/04/03/questions-tags/ There are some simple rules which will help you use them accurately!
OK 👍 FOR your Education
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thank you!
In September, I"m going to Minnesota on my vacation, and I have been studing to refresh all those grammar rules and all tips and ideas that can help me have a good and understandable conversation. 😂😂 It has been hard to learn and remember, but I hope to do well when I meet my friends in Minnesota again. Thanks Emma for all your video, love from Puerto Rico 🤗💖
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
What a fantastic opportunity! I'm sure that your English will come back to you surprisingly fast as you immerse yourself - take every opportunity to practise and know that each mistake will remind you how to improve! Good luck!!
@jesusvaldez7836
8 ай бұрын
Bb😊😊😊
Thanks 😊
@mmmEnglish_Emma
6 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
To telling the truth - to listening You and your lessons is much more easy than to talk face to face with other ordinary people ... For example - on the street or shopping.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Yes true - there are many other things that happen in real-world contexts - background noise, distractions, tone, body language - in addition to accent, pace of speech, slang, etc. I would encourage you to think about every new conversation opportunity as 'experience' - you are broadening your experience in English conversations and each time you encounter a challenging situation, you are building your experience & your ability to manage the situation better next time!
@andi73c
8 ай бұрын
@@mmmEnglish_Emma Yes, I'm looking for native speakers Emma now. Well, it's hard to belive but I started my English in ... 1989/90 (!!!) but there was NO REGULAR English ... in these years. :( I'm going to change this - seriously, at last! Thanks to You too Emma! Thank you for the answer ! :) And Best Regards to You. :))
Very useful
Hey Amma Like your lesson .
This is very important lesson for me i needed this lesson after watching this video lesson i will not hesitate to talk anymore💙🙏 THANKYOU SO MUCH Emma 🙏💙
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
You can do it! ✨
There are lots of imformative English videos in your mmmEnglish Channel, thanks you to provide us a great content, Great work Emma and mmmEnglish, Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰❤️
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
It's my pleasure!
Hi, Emma! I see you stayed with this line about small things. It can really add to English if you have a partner to speak with. Thank you.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Absolutely! Start implementing some of these tips and your English conversations will flow better ✨
@Aerosmith77
8 ай бұрын
@@mmmEnglish_Emma sure
i am from Bangladesh 🇧🇩your English is very very beautiful.. I like everything.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thank you! I'm from Australia
Emma never disappoints, you're the best teach ever... can u please make a video about the direct and indirect speech
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
I have one here! (reported speech is the same as indirect speech) mmmenglish.com/2022/05/24/reported-speech/
@edlangen
8 ай бұрын
@@mmmEnglish_Emma Thank you so much teacher
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Teacher 🙏🙏🙏
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I’m a native English speaker and I find your information helpful because I am struggling so badly communicating with my 18 year old son who has severed the relationship. I’m going to use your techniques. I want to tell you in the most non critical way…you encourage “practise” “practise” “practise” which I intend on doing, however, it’s not spelled “practise.” The correct English spelling is “practice” 😊 thank you
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Thanks emma
Yes, certainly agree with you Emma absolutely. The real live small talk should occur as so spontaneously and freely as you can do that on your own! Generally speaking, I finally was able to start speaking in English owing to these essential advice you're talking about in the lesson, that has helped me very very much! I wish all the student would be able to come through the same way!
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
To speak spontaneously and freely is the goal! 🤩 Do you have any tips or recommendations to practise small talk, Dave?
@davesmith6436
8 ай бұрын
@@mmmEnglish_Emma That needs to be a main goal, I'd even say so, Emma! Yeah, surely, I can give some piece of advice 'n' recommendations for starting English learners. I can share my own experience, my own way to fluency in English. I began to have practice in English whilst I was living in my country. I was Skype programe to connect with other students around the world, we were talking to each other about simple topics, discussing daily issues by using simple vocabulary 'n' grammar. Not only did I chat with my friends on Skype but also I was learning more complex English grammar simultaneously! I had three greatest books (I'm convinced, you know them Emma!), they're still with me. Only later, unless I moved to an English-speaking country, I started to leverage everything I knew 'n' learnt, I immersed myself in English at once, tried to talk to strangers, at hotels, cafes, in a taxi, on buses, trams... Subsequently, I was feeling that I was boosting all of my English skills whether it's a listening, speaking, reading, writing or pronunciation, the real practice with natives has given me a gigantic progress! I'm sorry about there weren't such fabulous lessons like yours, Emma but luckily I managed to perform my difficulties! I managed to *break the ice!* (cool idiom, isn't it?) For some moment, I just felt I could get more, much more! In other words, I couldn't put up with a minimum, I've always wanted to get more, as much as I was capable to perceive! It seemed to me, I was capable of getting better 'n' better in my hard work in English, a lot more!.. As a result, I learned to comprehend an English fast speech like my native one! It was the supreme goal for me that moment! I've reached that! That long process wasn't easy at all, you know! Finally, I actually have what I really have! Additionaly, I'm undoubtedly so proud of being your faithful student, dear Emma!
The quality of the contents in your video is awesome, very helpful and meaningful 👍👏👏👏 Emma you're a wonderful woman and a, sorry... My reference as an English teacher ❤🙏
@mmmEnglish_Emma
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for your lovely comment!
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