Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation
Hello classmates, I choose a good speech about Celeste Headlee. Nowadays people do not have great conversation with each other. This speech show us 10 ways to have a batter conversation. Please watch this video carefully because it is very useful and answer the questions below.https://www.ted.com/talks/celeste_headlee_10_ways_to_have_a_better_conversation/transcript?language=zh-cn#t-64473
Guiding Question
1. Why listening is more important than speaking?
2.Do you feel conversation be more difficult than before? Could you give some example?
3.How do you understand "No man ever listened his way out of a job."
4.Why it is important to use open-ended questions on conversation?
1. If we don't listen, only I speak a lot. That is not a conversation. If we want to speak but not listen, we should have speech or write on own our blog.
ReplyDelete2. Yes, I do. A lot of people watch their device when they have conversation. Even when we are having conversation face to face, people postpone the conversation when their device got alarm. It is hard to keep someone's interest on me.
3. I didn't get this words.
4. If we don't use the open-ended question, we just limit their answer. We can make the partner think about my question by using open-ended question.
it is true that a conversation has two side. people use device a lot and affect normal conversation. and open-ended question and makes a conversation continue, that is my opinion.
DeleteHello I am JiWon Oh(Kelly)
ReplyDelete1. Many famous and important people have said that listening is perhaps the most, the number one most important skill that you could develop.
2.I feel conversation is more difficult because we have to concentrate the person's saying without focusing what we want to say.
3. If you listen well your counterpart, the person can feel you respect him/her. It can give you good image.
4.If you ask complex questions, people will respond just easy answer like yes or no.
So you have people describe their answers by asking open-ended questions
i agree that focusing makes conversation easier. i think keep respect to others is the best way to have a good conversation
Delete1. Sure, all speaking based on listening, the listening is foundation
ReplyDelete2.No, I didn't discover the difference of conversation between before, even people always focus on their phone or Ipad , they still can pay attention on conversation
3.If someone have different idea with you, you should still be patient and be present
4. The open-ends question would encourage people to talk more about personal opinion.
i have to say you are good person to make a conversation. i think open-end question can let conversation keep going
DeleteHi~ I'm Lily.
ReplyDelete1. I think listening is more important than speaking because if we don't listen anything we can't mention our opinion also if we insist our opinions as don't listening, it is not a conversation, it is my own speech.
2. Yes, because usually nowadays most people have their own cellphones and if they want to say something, they don't need to meet, they can chatting each other, so our conversation become more simple than before.
3. Sorry, I couldn't understand.
4. I think this question makes more critical conversation and it require more deep thinking.
i agree that conversation is based on communicate between two soul
Delete1-In order to speak you need to listen first to know what do you need to talk about for most of the cases.
ReplyDelete2-No. even though most people use their phones and all their concentration is on it, they still pay attention to other people talking and have a convo.
3-That most people try to talk their way out instead of listening and know what they should do.
4-To give people the space to talk about what they want with their on concept of that answer.
in fact open-end question always give space with each other to continue the conversation
Delete1- Listening is a key of success. If you can't listen you can't be good speaker
ReplyDelete2-Yes, because nowadays people if they do not like what you are saying they will use their phone and you will get distracted.
3-You have to listen to the other side opinion.
4- To keep the conversation going and talk more.
so we need to learn how to communicate with each other again
Delete1. Listening is more important than speaking because we can gain double words during the listening compared to the speaking.
ReplyDelete2. Yes, I think the people learn skills of speaking in these days. For example, in the past, the people use simple sentences to express their thought; however, the people now a day are more educated, so they use high level of vocabulary in their conversation.
3.I understand that this idiom means that the listening is very important.
4. In order to engage the conversation and to get the better answer, we need to use open-ended questions.