如何开始英语对话.pptVIP

How to Start a Conversation At a company party, your boss asks everyone to introduce themselves to someone they dont know in order to break the ice. What does break the ice mean? to start a conversation with someone you dont know ?? You see someone from accounting whom you dont know very well. How should you introduce yourself to him in English? Hi, Im ____. ?? After introducing yourself, your co-worker still seems a bit shy. What should you say next? ?The food here looks pretty good. ?? After a few more minutes of conversation, your co-worker tells you that youre quite good at small talk. What does he mean? You are good at having a conversation. While visiting a friends parents house, your friends father asks you to come shoot the breeze with him. What does he want you to do? have a chat ?? One morning on your way to work you find yourself in the elevator with a manager of your company whom you dont know very well. Since it is just the two of you in the elevator, you should say something to be polite. What can you say to start a conversation? The weather has been quite nice/bad/hot/cold lately. At a friends dinner party you are sitting next to someone you dont know. She tells you that she used to live in Paris. How should you respond? You lived in Paris? For how long? ?? Later on that night, everyone decides to play a game. Each person has to come up with a funny pick up line. What is a pick-up line? to start a conversation?? At the opening of an art exhibition you find yourself in a conversation with someone who wont stop talking. What should you do to get out of this conversation? Please excuse me for a minute. * * *