Conversation strategy

Conversation strategy

Highlighting key moments in a story

Think of a time when you got lost.

What happened?

Listen to Mateo and Bryan... pay attention in the following speeches:

Yeah, there were all these trees around us, and we were so lost. And we're thinking, "Oh, no". And we're both getting kind of scared. We just wanted to get out of there.

When we tell a story sometimes we use some expressions to make it more dramatic:

• Change the tense of the story into The Present tense , this is a good conversation strategy but remember, not in writing.

• Use this and these to highlight important people, things and events.

Replace a, an and some for this or these. Take a look to the present simple tense.

Read the story as if you were the one telling it to a friend.

Write a brief story where you were kind of stressed, afraid or worried.

Use the conversation strategies to tell your story to the teacher.