Following up with interest

Use varied follow-up questions to understand details and keep someone talking.

Understand and learn

Work from a natural example to useful language, one small pattern, a spoken attempt, and a response that is relevant to your life.

Maya

I’ve started volunteering at a neighborhood garden.

Leo

How did you get involved?

Maya

A neighbor invited me. At first I only planned to help once, but I really enjoyed it.

Leo

What do you enjoy most about it, and has anything surprised you?

Understand a natural example and learn a small set of useful words, phrases, and patterns.

These items were selected by the lesson curriculum for practical use—not extracted as an every-word list.

How did you get involved?
How did you get involved?
What happened next?
What happened next?
What do you mean by…?
What do you enjoy most about it, and has anything surprised you?
What do you enjoy most about it?
What do you enjoy most about it, and has anything surprised you?
Has anything surprised you?
What do you enjoy most about it, and has anything surprised you?

Which question best follows “I started volunteering last month”?

How did you get involved?Do you like weather?What time is the train?Are you from Italy?

Work from a natural example to useful language, one small pattern, a spoken attempt, and a response that is relevant to your life.

Listen, then choose what you heard.

Your answer

Write your own sentence using this item.

Your sentence

This is self-practice. It is not automatically scored as correct or incorrect.

Answer in your own words. Record yourself, listen back, and then compare your response with the model answer.

Listen to a short personal update and ask three connected open questions.

Choose questions you would genuinely like the other person to answer.

Use it with someone