Topic 1.2.5 Ending and Leaving a Conversation
ENDING AND LEAVING A CONVERSATION
1.When you end and leave a conversation, it is polite to give a reason and to promise a future contact.
What do you say when you want to end and leave a conversation?
Listen and check.
2.Work with a partner and practise each situation below. Have one or two minutes of small talk, then end the conversation appropriately.
a.You are at a conference making conversation. You have spoken for five minutes and have run out of small talk topics.
b.You are just leaving work after a long day when you bump into an old client in reception who’s just arrived to see someone else. The client wants to chat.
c.You meet a work colleague by chance at the theatre during the interval. The bell for the second half has just rung.
d.You meet your old manager at your child’s football match. You are with your family so you don’t want to talk for very long.