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Dear Class,

In our last class we talked about another topic of small talk; the weekend.
Here are a couple dialogs we made in class:

A: How was your weekend?
B: It was good.
A: What did you do?
B: I watched Major League Baseball.
A: Who was playing?
B: It was the Mariners vs. the Yankees.
A: Who won?
B: I don't know . . . unfortunately, I fell asleep.

A: How was your weekend?
B: Same old, same old.
A: What did you do?
B: I slept.
A: Oh . . . sounds . . . interesting.

A: How was your weekend?
B: Great!
A: What did you do?
B: I took my son to the swimming pool.
A: Really? Did you swim too?
B: No, I sat next to the pool and counted laps for him.
A: How far did he swim?
B: A little over a kilometer.
A: Wow, he must be a good swimmer!

Small talk is generally unimportant conversation, but learning to make small talk is very important!
It's best to make small talk with same topics such as:

• the weather
• sports
• television
• movies
  
• the weekend
• family

Four topics that should be avoided are:

• sex
• religion
• politics
• money
  

Of course, these topics are discussed but usually only between close friends.

We also went over some of our goals for increasing your commprehensible input of English
through Extensive Reading and Listening.
I gave you some feedback on how to improve your goals by making them SMART Goals.

Homework:

Rewrite your goals to be SMART Goals.
Be sure to continue reading your graded readers!

See you next week!

Matthew