Alright the number one topic we usually think about and joke about when we talk about small
talk is the weather. So, the weather is of course uncontroversial, unimportant, but it's something
easy to talk about. Maybe you're waiting in line or maybe you are sitting next to someone,
you only know a little. Or maybe you're just trying to start a conversation. The weather is an
easy topic to talk about. So, let's look at five conversation starters for the weather.
Number one, “can you believe how it's been so…?” Here in the blank we might say,
“can you believe,” Oh where'd my mouse go? Nope there we go, sorry guys just a moment.
Sometimes my uh mouse disappears. “Can you believe how rainy it's been? Can you believe how hot it's
been? Can you believe how cold or snowy it's been?” So, any weather that has been happening
recently. We can easily start a conversation. “Can you believe…?” So, I am here in Florida in the US,
and it is raining every day a little. So, I might say, “can you believe how rainy it's been?”
And someone might respond, “oh I know it has been so rainy. I really want to go
hiking but I can't because it's always raining. Oh, I love hiking. Where do you like to hike?”
And so on. So even these small questions like, “can you believe how rainy it's been?”
Can be great conversation starters. Alright, let's see our next one. So here we can also talk about
what the weather will be like in the future. “I heard it's going to blank today.” Or, “I heard
it's going to blank tomorrow.” Or, “I heard it's going to blank this weekend.” So maybe it's winter
and I heard it's going to snow today. Or I heard it's going to snow tomorrow, or this weekend.
Right, whatever your future time is that you heard about the weather. So, “I heard it's going
to snow today. Oh yeah I think I heard that too.” Maybe I’m going to go skiing this weekend right.
So here this is not a question. Many of the examples today will be questions, but we can also
start a small talk with just a statement about a fact right. “I heard it's going to snow today.
Oh yeah I heard that.” And then your conversation begins. Okay let's look at a few more.
“Beautiful day, isn't it?” So this is a another question, “isn't it?”
So here we're just confirming or saying something we know the person will agree with or have the
same opinion as us about. “Isn't it, beautiful day isn't it?” So a great thing, maybe you're just
speaking to someone, again you don't know very well, “oh beautiful day, isn't it?
Yes it's such a gorgeous day.” And you can continue your conversation. Okay, a couple more.
So, let's say there's beautiful weather, right. Whatever that means to you, and
you might ask someone, “are you going to get out and enjoy this beautiful weather today?” Or this
weekend, or some future time right. Are you going to do something outside to enjoy the weather? So,
this is a great small talk question right because this is a great way for our conversation
to really begin. “Are you going to go somewhere to enjoy the weather?” Well, we're going to
learn something about the person we're talking to. Maybe they say,” no I’m going to stay inside.
I don't like this weather it's too hot.” Or maybe someone says, “yes I’m going to go
kayaking.” Right no matter what, we learn something, and we can start a conversation.
And something similar to the first question, keep losing my mouse,
oh there it is. So, just like, “can you believe how rainy it's been?” We can say
something like, “the weather has been blank lately, hasn't it?”
“The weather has been rainy lately. The weather has been great lately.” Right so here we're just
filling in with our adjective about the weather. The weather has been hot, cold, rainy, great,
terrible, right. Alright so these are our weather small talk conversation starters.