Assessing Initial Conversation Skills

An easy way to assess a student’s conversation skills is to initially ask the student a number of random questions and see if they are able to answer with the same conversation pattern in the same tense. There will obviously be some students that have very poor conversation skills and this assessment tool would not be necessary. The students who have no skills need to begin with the real basics beginning on pages 1 through 5 in my book entitled La Bonte’s Top 100 English Conversation Patterns.

The assessment can be found here:
http://www.scribd.com/full/19647805?access_key=key-1aftaior5bpaf6i2185a

Sample of English Conversation Patterns

A sneak peek at the Top 100 English Conversation Patterns can be viewed at:

http://www.scribd.com/full/47666625?access_key=key-16feyny5n61g0kb28xp3

English Conversation Topics

This book is perfect for a class where students want to practice their conversation skills in an open atmosphere. There are 44 different topics with at least 35 questions relating to each topic. One topic can be used per day with the students.

The introduction to this book includes a perfect system to follow during class. This ensures the opportunity for ALL students to talk. The system prevents one person from monopolizing the conversation while other students sit back passively. All students are given the same amount of time to talk and practice their conversation skills. It provides a dynamic interplay of all within the class.

For the busy teacher this book is a perfect tool since it provides 44 lively conversation topics in a teaching format that all students love. Since all of the work is done for you, the teacher can enjoy classes with the students.

Top 100 English Conversation Patterns

The main principle of the La Bonte conversation learning system focuses on the most common 150 conversation patterns used by native speakers. Within an hour, most native speakers use at least 80 of these 150 patterns, many of which are used multiple times. So, why not teach the students to recognize and respond with these conversation patterns.

By focusing a student's energy on identifying and responding to conversation patterns, there is a dramatic increase in their ability to speak effectively in a short amount of time. The teachers role also becomes easier by methodically reviewing and reinforcing these patterns with students, starting with the simplest and moving on to the more complex.

Most feelings in conversation are conveyed unconsciously by native speakers through conversation patterns. The La Bonte approach to learning conversation skills provides students and teachers with a method that is straight forward and helps to instill confidence in students quickly.

Once the student learns that there is a method to learning conversation skills, they become relieved. A students inability to communicate and express themselves clearly can be found in their difficulty to indentify and utilize these very simple conversation patterns while speaking.

It takes about 20 hours to teach a student how to recognize and respond to native speakers using conversation patterns. I offer a helpful teachers guide that highlights this 20 hour process.

I also offer a free oral assessment test that gives you an idea of what the conversation patterns are. You can test your own students to see how well they respond. There is a link to the assessment tool on my home page.

Would you like a free list of the patterns? Please contact me via email. labonteesl@gmail.com

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