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【Teaching Tips Vol.48】Watercooler chats
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【Teaching Tips Vol.48】

Watercooler chats 


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Widgets Inc.: A task-based course in workplace English 2nd Edition

Presented by
Marcos Benevides & Chris Valvona (Atama-ii Books)
 
"Free conversation" activities can be difficult to implement because students often have trouble thinking of interesting topics from their everyday life and then following them up with questions and answers. Making up fantastic stories doesn't solve this problem, as it can be even more difficult to keep spinning lies about something that never actually happened.

To solve this problem, in our task-based course, Widgets, we created a set of Watercooler Chat prompts which are based on real-life topics most people will have experienced in their life. For example: "You went to a wedding or another big party last weekend. How was it? How was the food? What did you wear? Did anything interesting happen?"

The idea here is that students start by thinking back to a time in the past when this interesting event actually occurred. The only part of the story which isn't (necessarily) true is that it happened "last weekend"; this is added simply to make the chat feel more relevant to the moment.

By activating their memories from such a real event, students will be able to think of a range of acceptable answers to any possible question, such as "What did the bride wear?" "What music did they play?" etc. This gets around the issue of students having nothing to say, or trying to complete the task early by simply closing the conversation down. 

If a student insists that they've never been to a wedding, the teacher can simply give them another prompt; perhaps: "You are planning to buy an item you really want. What is it? Where are you going to buy it? What are you going to do with it?"

This task works in pairs or larger groups. If two students happen to get the same prompt, so much the better: "Really? Me too! Where did you go...?" 

Just like what happens around a real watercooler!


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