Encouraging others to speak English - English conversation examples

what can we do when we are talking to someone  shy or what if we just want to make someone  

feel more comfortable talking and sharing their  opinions or maybe we are talking to many people  

and maybe it's mostly me and my friend amy talking  but my friend uh my friend grace is here maybe  

she's very quiet i want to get her opinion too  so what can i say we're going to talk about a  

few different situations today so today let's  learn phrases to help people to start talking  

and phrases to help people continue talking  so let's get started first let's talk about  

phrases to encourage people to start or begin  speaking so this might happen in a group or maybe  

in a classroom at work there are many times we  might want to encourage someone to start speaking  

so let's look at four phrases we can use for that  first what do you think and then the person's name  

uh what do you think so and so what do  you think loli lolly what do you think  

pedro right so we put in the name next  we see well and their name how about you

we see does anyone else have an idea so  this is kind of a general question that we  

asked to um a group maybe we've heard worse  we're with 10 people we have heard from  

two people we want to hear more people uh more  people's opinions does anyone else have an idea  

or we could ask someone directly do you have  an idea and their name do you have an idea  

okay so let's see these phrases are really good  for group conversations um one of them we might  

ask to just one person but these are usually more  commonly used in group conversations when we want  

more people in the group to start talking or to  share right so let's take a look at how we use  

these four phrases with an example let's say i'm  with a group of friends and we are talking about  

what should we do tonight so let's see four  examples so let's say i'm talking with my friends  

we're talking about what we should do tonight  i might say i'm not sure what to do tonight  

what do you think amy so here i am encouraging  amy to share what she thinks we should do tonight  

right what do you think amy oh um oh thank  you uh i think we should go see a movie  

now we have well such and such how about you  

so here someone could share their opinion i think  we should go for a bike ride well jack how about  

you so here we're asking jack what do you think  what do you think we should do how about you

next we see does anyone else have an idea  so this is usually later in the conversation  

when maybe we've heard from many people but  we want to hear from a few more so uh or we're  

sharing many ideas and just asking does any anyone  not just one person right in examples one and two  

we are trying to get one person to talk here we're  just seeing does anyone have an idea so let's read  

sentence three we could go out to eat go see a  movie or stay in does anyone else have an idea  

so here maybe again many people right does  anyone else have an idea about what we could do  

and last we have one more example of asking  one person oh i can't think of anything  

do you have an idea grace so here we are again  asking one person so these are all great phrases  

to encourage people to start talking what do  you think well how about you does anyone else  

have an idea or do you have an idea these  are all great for getting people to share  

their opinions and start being a part of  the conversation and really any conversation  

so let's see an example let's say we  have three people talking a b and c so  

let's say person a and b are talking together  mostly i think we should go see a movie  

after dinner tonight yep that sounds great what  movie should we see i want to see the new movie  

tenet me too it looks so cool what do you think  amy i'd love to see it too thank you for asking  

so here if we look at this conversation this is  when two people are having a conversation let's  

say person a and b were doing most of the talking  but they want to make sure that person c is okay  

with what they're talking about she's not really  talking much so they want to make sure that she  

agrees or has a different opinion right so person  a asked what do you think amy and amy answered i'd  

love to see it too thank you for asking right  so this is a great way here we used what do you  

think but we also could have used well amy how  about you or uh do you have any another idea  

amy right we could have used our other phrases  too so here we see this is a great example of uh  

phrases and a conversation where we want another  person to start talking and share their opinion