Articulate Your Thoughts
A two-session B2 practice pack following a Charles Duhigg video, training learners to recognise practical, emotional and social conversations, match the other person's mode, ask deep follow-up questions and state a meeting purpose. Best one-to-one with professionals who need stronger rapport and conversational awareness at work.
Print-ready A4 PDF · teacher's notes and answer key included
What's inside
- Classification (P/E/S)
- Spot the mismatch
- Rewriting replies
- Writing follow-up questions
- Live teacher practice
- Teacher-led shifting-gears conversation
- Note-taking table
- Conversation diary homework
By the end, learners can
- Identify practical, emotional and social conversations from what people say
- Repair mismatched replies by matching first, then bridging to the next topic
- Turn small-talk questions into deep follow-up questions
- Write and say a one-sentence purpose to open a meeting
- Notice shifts in conversation type through words and body language and respond to them
Skills: Speaking · Listening · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · Team leaders · HR · Client-facing professionals
Language practised: Showing empathy · Bridging to a new topic · Asking deep follow-up questions · Stating the purpose of a meeting · Checking what the other person needs · Checking understanding of a shift in topic or mood
Pairs with
Lesson 6: Articulate Your Thoughts →
Teach the lesson first. The pack builds on the video your learner has just watched.
1 · Teach the lesson
Run the video lesson as usual.
2 · Run the pack
Two 60-minute sessions over the following week.
3 · Report back
Open the next lesson with the homework.
Teach it tomorrow.
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