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