4.1.2 Conversational skills

• Speaking fluency in extended conversation
• Narrating an experience in sequence
• Describing places, people and events vividly
• Holding an audience: pace, detail and structure
• Managing hesitation and recovering fluency

• narrate an experience in a clear sequence
• describe places and events using precise detail
• sustain fluent speech over an extended turn
• use strategies to recover when hesitating

“What makes one person's account of a journey worth listening to?”

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1. Narrating an experience
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Telling what happened so people want to hear the end.
2. Describing well and staying fluent
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Detail that carries a picture, and what to do when the words stop coming.
3. Holding an audience
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Pacing a travel account so listeners stay with you, and recovering when you hesitate.
4. The full travel account
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Putting narration, description and fluency together in one spoken journey for a real listener.