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FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; 1. Towards a classroom approach; Explains howthe activities in chapters 2 to 5 can be combined to provide a coherentapproach to the teaching of conversation; 2. Controlled activities (25activities); Controlled activities to help students develop confidenceas well as the ability to participate in and maintain simple, commonlyencountered conversations; 3. Awareness activities (20 activities);Activities designed to help students become aware of whatnativespeakers do in conversation; the activities involve makingobservations, imitating, experimenting, and id! entifying aspectsof thelanguage; 4. Fluency activities (28 activities); Activities which helplearners achieve conversational competence through: providing theexperience of using English in real time (i.e. people do not wait forthe right or the appropriate answerin real life); giving learners thechance to express their own ideas and emotions; giving learners theopportunity of using languagefor a specific purpose; 5. Feedback (12tasks); Practical ways in which consistent and reliable feedback canbeused to improve conversational performance; BIBLIOGRAPHY