Sentence examples for practising conversations from inspiring English sources
Ideas include singing Old MacDonald and tongue-twisters in German, practising conversations on "telephones" made from yoghurt pots and playing German party games.
We are practising conversation now, which sort of makes me feel a little like a morbidly virginal pick-up artist practising his first ever neg, alone and in a fedora, in a popular bar on a Saturday night, i.e. pathologically unvarnished and unready for human interaction.
The therapy was also distinctive in that it included two sessions (7 and 8) during which the dyad held "practise" conversations and received feedback from the SLT on strategy use, both as the practise conversation was happening (online coaching) and after it ended (this included watching it back on video).
If need be write out or practise a conversation before sending or talking.
In another game, participants practise various possible conversations between a mother and daughter using a scenario in which the mother has learned from a neighbour that her daughter was walking with a boy.
Simply practise having general conversations with them, even about the weather.
This reinforces the idea that the main motivation for using test questions in these data is to scaffold the person with aphasia in joining in with a new topic of conversation, rather than practising saying words in an attempt to improve language skills.
This is, admittedly, Conversation 101, but even practising it in a soft-walled environment, it's quite hard to stay totally on it with the open-ended stuff.
He's drinking water and practising his scales, using an old Skype conversation with his vocal coach.
Following a conversation with Sir Donald Bradman, he decided to reinstate the hook shot and spent the winter months practising the stroke by hitting baseballs thrown by his brother Greg.
