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Vary your questions Open form : How often do you (clean your room)? ➞ Closed form : Do you often (clean your room)?

English transcript of audio track 1-35 One important key to sounding more natural in English is to sometimes talk about yourself. This is because native English speakers often vary from the basic question-answer conversation pattern in an effort to find common ground. Talking about yourself, at a basic level, is easy to do! Take a look at this four-line example. Speaker A begins with a question, and Speaker B gives a “ +alpha ” long answer. In line 3, Speaker A reacts to Speaker B’s answer, then makes a personal comment by answering his own question from line 1. Speaker B then reacts and adds a personal comment about the same topic. Native speakers talk like this all the time, so the more you can do this, the better. For practice, read the example dialog out loud with your partner and then write your own similar version in the spaces below.

Alternatives : • Do you (clean your room) often?

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Guided Speaking Practice • Play audio track #1-34 for the students. • This dialog is structured to model the Golden Rule 3 structure expounded upon in the following Sounding Natural Note . The idea here is to showcase how easy it is to talk about yourself- simply resolve to answer every question you ask without being prompted to do so. • Within the substitution vocab are several expressions that you may want to go over with your students before they begin reading this dialog in pairs. • If you have time, you could have your students brainstorm an additional line of content. Sounding Natural Note: How to talk about yourself • Here we have a note dedicated to Golden Rule 3 that showcases a simple technique for how students can talk about themselves. This may seem like a difficult thing to do for many students, as it may feel unnatural to speak without having been given “permission” do to so via a question. Nevertheless, all they need do is follow the basic four-turn sequence to bring about a degree of interactivity to their conversations. • As always, feel free to print out and use the full transcript with your students if you feel this will help them. • This note has a short writing task embedded within it. Have students complete it in pairs. If possible, check their work and do a “Memorize and Perform” activity with them.

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