1. Small talk.
Watch the video. Answer the questions.
2. Missing words.
Watch part of the video again, and choose the actual words that were said.
3. Tails.
In small talk (informal conversation), tails are common. A tail
is an expression that is added to an utterance, and which qualifies the
utterance in some way.
Can you put the tails back into the dialogue?
4. Strong and weak modifiers.
Totally relaxing.
Fairly uneventful.
Totally strengthens the meaning of relaxing.
Fairly weakens the meaning of uneventful.
Divide the following modifiers into two groups: those that strengthen
the adjective and those that weaken it.
5. Strong and weak modifiers.
Change the following statements so that if the first is strong, you weaken
the second, and if the first is weak, you strengthen the second.
6. Small talk (continued).
Watch the second part of the video, and answer the questions.
7. Evaluative language.
Small talk uses a lot of evaluative language. Listen to the conversation again. Do you hear these expressions? Choose "yes" if you do, and "no" if you don't.
8. Evaluative language.
Now classify the evaluative expressions according to the following categories.
9. Small talk (continued).
Watch the final part of the video. Are the statements true or false?
10. Small talk language.
Categorise these expressions.
Watch the videos again and read the subtitles.