Name: What to Say Next in an English Conversation
Uploaded: 2024-04-24T13:10:20.000Z
Duration: 7 min 20 s
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So here's the beginning of a pretty typical English conversation.

And then sometimes you just don't know what to say next.

As an English learner, it's important to be ready for this moment

so that the conversation doesn't just die.

In this English lesson, I'll teach you ten different ways

Ten different ways you can go from that point where the conversation kind of stalls

The first way to keep an English conversation going

is to use two simple words, and it's to ask the question, Guess what?

This is a phrase we often use when we're going to share news about our lives.

And wait for them to say What?, But you don't have to.

If you're really excited, you can just say, Guess what?

Maybe you took an English test and you got 100% on it.

You could say to your friend, Guess what?

A second way to keep a conversation going is to start a sentence with this phrase.

And then share some new, exciting news about you or someone else.

You can say to the person you're having the conversation with,

you're not going to believe this, but Joe won the lottery.

So if you have something exciting to tell someone about yourself or about someone else,

you can always start with the phrase, You're not going to believe this, but...

and then tell them something really, really cool.

The third way you can keep a conversation going is by asking

a question that starts with, Can you believe that..?

Maybe there was just an election in your country,

you could say to a friend, Can you believe that Justin Trudeau won the election?

So maybe something has happened in the world and you find it hard to believe.

You can ask a question to the person who you're having the conversation with, starting with.

A fourth way to keep a conversation going

is to ask a question that starts with, How about those..?

And then you usually mention a sports team.

In fact, this question is almost always used when talking about sports.

I could say to her, How about those Raptors?

And then she will talk about the game that she just saw the night before.

So again, it's almost always used when talking about a sports team.

And then the person who, you know likes that team

will then talk about that team maybe for a little bit too long.

The fifth way to keep that conversation going is to start a question with, Did you hear..?

And you can either finish this question by talking about

something that you heard in the news, or you can finish it

by talking about something that you heard from a family member or a friend.

You can say, Did you hear that Julie is getting married?

And maybe the other person did hear about it.

But it will certainly have a good effect on your conversation.

So another way to just keep that conversation going,

ask a question that starts with, Did you hear..?

And again, you can ask about something that's happened in the world as well.

You could say, did you hear about the bank that failed in California?

I don't know if that's still big news today, but did you hear about it?

The sixth way to keep the conversation going is to simply make a statement.

When I do this, sometimes I like to do it in the negative.

I like to start by saying I didn't think...

It's a way to just mention something to prompt the other person to start talking about it.

It doesn't have to just be about the weather.

Right now, it's getting a little bit sunny out here.

I didn't think it was going to be sunny today, so I didn't bring my sunglasses with me.

A seventh way to keep a conversation going is to ask a question that starts this way.

Maybe your brother bought a new car and you could say to your sister,

you could ask the question, What do you think about Fred's new car?

So it's just a way to ask a general question about something.

Again, hoping the other person will have an opinion or respond

and it starts by saying, What do you think about..?

It's a great way to keep a conversation flowing and moving along.

An eighth way to keep a conversation moving along is to say that

you can't believe something and you start it by actually saying that, I can't believe...

I often use this phrase when I'm talking about the weather.

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