Top 10 Open Ended Questions | Improve your English Communication

Improve your English communication With These Top 10 Open Ended Questions
Improve your English communication With These Top 10 Open Ended Questions
  • Did this ever happen to you that you are speaking to someone and everything is going right, then suddenly there is an awkward silence and you find out that your mind is totally blank. Also, at that time it becomes a tough deal for you to decide what to speak and you feel that the other person is thinking the same that how to begin the conversation now.
  • That scenario truly sucks- so here I have top 10 open ended questions that you can use in such moments and never run out of things to say in a conversation.

Questions are important to keep a conversation going, but asking questions is an art.

Today we will talk about the top 10 open ended questions that you can use in any conversion to receive a good response.

How would you feel if you could start a conversation – in English – with anyone? You might feel nervous? What can be the first topic that you can pick up without fear, without stress, without worrying about making any mistakes.

It might feel a little impossible. But the good news is, it’s not.

 

So, here are top 10 open ended questions.

 

1. What is the most interesting thing you’ve done recently?

When you meet someone for the first time or you don’t know something about that person then this turns out to be the best question. You will always learn something interesting in the answer of this question. Plus, there are so many variations.

You could also ask, “What is the most interesting film you’ve seen recently?” Or, “What is the most interesting book you’ve read recently.”
No matter what topic you’re interested in, this question is perfect.

 

2. Where are you from originally?

It is easy to ask follow-up questions after you learn where a person is from.
You may use this question when you’re traveling, when you meet someone new in your home city, or at an international conference.

 

3. What is the most interesting thing about your city?

It’s a perfect follow-up question to, “Where are you from?”
You could ask about someone’s city, their culture, their local cuisine, and so much more. The options are endless.

What do you do?

Everyone asks it. It is almost always the first question we ask someone when we meet for the first time. I know some cultures do not like to talk about their jobs in social situations. But if want to start a conversation with a native English speaker, do not be afraid of this question. Generally speaking, English speakers often feel a strong identity with their job and they like to talk about it, so it’s always okay to ask.

 

4. What is your very earliest memory as a very little kid?

This will help the person to think about the flashback of their memories.
Open-ended questions are also good because they provoke others to respond.

 

5. What’s the coolest place you’ve ever been to?

Don’t you love talking about travel. You know with this question, you can share stories and favorite memories and maybe you’ll even get an idea about a new destination for your next vacation! You can come up with follow-up questions like “What did you like about it?” Or, “What would you recommend if I decided to go there?”

 

6. What is your favorite cuisine?

Everyone likes to eat and definitely will relate to this question and loves to answer. Also, you can ask whether he/ she is a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian? Then you can tell about yourself as well.

 

7. What inspires you? Or Who inspired you?

This will allow anyone to think beyond the parameters and if they can connect that talk about something that you find motivating?

 

8. Do you like watching films?

Because everyone loves watching films!
Don’t you like it too?
May be you both have a common favorite actor or actress and in that case when you can talk about that for a long duration. And it builds a very healthy and interesting conversation.

 

9. What are your dreams?

We all have dreams. We always think about them, we work for them. So this open ended question will lead to an endless conversation and might be a good start to take it ahead!

Last but not the least,

 

10. What is your favorite season?

You can talk about – your likes or dislikes about that weather or even what trends are going around. You know, like Wedding season, with just a few practical steps and the right questions, you can be better prepared to start a conversation.

Open ended are your best way to never run out of things to say in a conversion.
Now you have all these questions – start practicing them with new people you’re meeting to sharpen your English communication skills.

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, they are part of your learning journey. And if you don’t want to practice with new people or it’s difficult to find new people to practice such open ended conversations, then you can practice with English experts at Engvarta app.

 

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5 Simple Tips to follow For Better Communication

Simple Tips to follow For better communication
Simple Tips to follow For better communication
  • In this blog, we’ll talk about 5 tricks which will help you to never run out of things to say in a conversion.
    Yes…..you can talk in English without pressurizing yourself keeping these points in mind.
    How often does it happen that we are talking about something, and turn silent the next moment?
    This might happen with you as well, right?

You just have to keep these 5 points in your mind and you will always find something to
pop up in your conversation.
Yes…
Are you guys excited? So lets start…

 

1. Reminds me of.
What you could do is look around yourself and say: hey this reminds me of ——- & then
fill in the blanks with something you see around. It could be anything around you – and that will keep the conversation going.

For example: if there are kids playing say – hey, this little kid looks like my nephew? Or he reminds of that cute boy from a movie which I watched recently?

Oh, this painting reminds me of my last trips to Manali. There can be many variations and it always will give you more things to talk about.

 

2. Ask open ended questions.
Let’s take an example to understand it.
If you ask someone “Do you like Delhi?” So the answer can be either “Yes, I like Delhi.” Or I don’t like Delhi.

But if you ask How do you like Delhi/ Tell me something about Delhi?
Where you ask “Why” – there is a probability that it will lead to a conversation.
Suppose you meet any teacher, then you can ask, ‘WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO BE A TEACHER?’

 

3. Use revival question.
When you feel that you don’t understand anything and you suddenly start feeling what to say in certain situations, then this point will help you for sure.

USE REVIVAL QUESTION.

Suppose… you are in a new group…you don’t know anyone and after short introduction. You fail to keep the conversation going then….. You may ask HOW DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW EACH OTHER?

And for sure, some or the other story will come out about which you can talk.
Or on condition that it’s just a conversation between two people, then you can ask, ‘What’s your story?’ Everyone has some story to tell and also it’s an open ended question.

To those people whom you already know, even while talking to them you feel like, ‘What to say now?”

You can ask them about their future plans? What are they working on?

Everyone has some plans and want to make their life interesting- just give
them a chance to talk about it.

 

4. Give compliments.
You have to compliment something that you have noticed and you liked it?
Like someone’s hairstyle is looking decent then you could ask them “did you get a haircut?” Even if they didn’t, you may talk about what made you think so.

 

5. Flip the script.
You may take a pause while speaking & make a good eye contact.
It is very important that you give another person the opportunity to speak, or to ask something. If you still feel stuck or nothing to ask – try asking why or how did you feel about the last sentence that person talked about.

For example- If someone went to a museum yesterday, so you can ask,’ DID YOU ENJOY YOURSELF THERE?’

Or ‘awesome! Tell me something interesting about that place?
like the new things you discovered etc.

So friends if you keep these 5 points in your mind this will help your conversation going. But the secret to having a great conversion is to sharpen your skills with regular practice. So go ahead and start practicing these tricks with the friends or new people you’re meeting.

 

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How Video Games can help you to Remove Hesitation & Speak English Fluently?

How Video Games can help you to Remove Hesitation
How Video Games can help you to Remove Hesitation

How to get over your fear of being judged & speak English like you’re playing a video game?

  • Today we are going to uncover a big secret for all of you – ‘the real trick of speaking English confidently’.
    Have you ever thought that while filling any form, why written and spoken English capability is asked differently?
    People think that it is quite obvious that if you know English well, you also know how to write and speak English equally?
    But it’s not like that! It is not at all necessary that if you are good at writing or reading English, then your spoken English is also good. Many times people with lower proficiency in English speak fluently while the higher proficiency one’s stutter with aaa… auu…ooo… umm.
When you speak in any language, it all comes down to your level of confidence and your fear of being judged. Even when things are clear up here our nerves can affect our speech. In such situation either we stammer or we make grammatical mistakes, which in turns make us more nervous and this vicious cycle continue until we lose our confidence.

 

Now this is the root cause of this problem, but what is the solution for it? We found out that best solution for this problem is playing video games. You must be surprised, in a few moments we will make it clear, but first tell us, have you ever played video games in your childhood? Or do you still play games on your phone like Candy Crush, Subway Surfer, Temple Run, etc. ? Definitely the answer will be Yes! Most of us have and still do play one or the other game regularly.

 

Now, it’s time to take learning from them.

 

When you play any game, your target is to cross the level or to achieve a certain number of coins and whether you are good at it or not, you concentrate and totally dedicate yourself to achieve that target. And if you sit back to analyze every step while playing game, then times up and you lose that game because you did not achieve the set target in the given time.

 

Now when it comes to English speaking, your focus should be the target, i.e. getting your point across. The main point is that the listener should understand your views. If you focus on what you want to say, the words will follow, but if you give all your focus on saying it correctly, you might lose sight of your point and starts fumbling and feeling conscious.

 

But who are you afraid of? The one with whom you are conversing in English, or someone from the Society, you developed a thinking that they know better English than you. But that’s not the reason you’re Just scared of “Shame,” the reason for your fear is “what people will say” or “people will laugh at me”

 

You are scared of that the society might laugh at you and may not encourage you. Our video games, even teach us to overcome this fear as well. Imagine you are at a gaming arcade or fun zone, now when you play here you are playing for fun and you are not bothered about who’s watching you or what might that person say. In fact, many times you also get encouragement because no one is there to judge you.

 

If you play these games in pressure, it is quite obvious that mistakes will occur. When you start thinking that you have to play better to impress people, then this can increase your chances of mistakes. Instead of this, think like “I have to convey my point, maybe people will judge me, but if I am able to understand what the person is trying to convey and I am able to convey my thoughts then this is itself a wonderful start.

 

Let me cite an example; remember the speech of Akshay Kumar in Padman that he gives to the foreigners in broken English. Akshay was having confidence within himself, and he explained all what he wanted to, in that inaccurate English and got appreciation as well.

 

It is entirely obvious that if you speak out with confidence, then it might be possible that you might nullify those few mistakes gradually. But if you will not be able to speak because of the fear of mistakes, then what is the use of it?
To build your confidence while speaking English, imagine yourself as that child who is learning to speak. He does not fear what someone will say, he just tries to learn something new each day.

 

He makes mistakes and the people laugh at him as well, even then too child never quits walking on the path of learning. There is an idiom in English “Practice makes a man perfect”. So do not fear what people might say, just concentrate on what you have to say and say it with confidence.

 

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How to Speak English With Confidence: 3 Powerful Tips

Want To Speak English With Confidence
Want To Speak English With Confidence
  • Even after reading the grammar for so many years, your English is not yet improved. Why is it so that whenever it comes to talking in English then you feel uneasy? Well, don’t worry – you’re not alone. Most of the people at EngVarta App have this similar issue – even after knowing grammar, they hesitate to converse in English.
  • We are sharing few tips which turned out to be helpful for our numerous EngVarta users. Also, these tips not only influenced their confidence, but also made them capable of conversing in English fluently with confidence.

Here Are 3 Simple Tips To Talk In English With Confidence

Speaking English is no way hard, you need just 3 things to speak English, which can instantly improve your Spoken English, and those 3 things are?

Confidence,
Confidence
and Confidence.

Yes, confidence is something that you need to build up in yourself to speak good English.

Because if you give it a thought – what is stopping you from talking in English, then you will discover that it is the lack of confidence because you have learned English since your primary school, and you know it very well but only the problem is you are not able to speak it.

So, you do not have to learn anything new, just you have to speak what you already know and for that you need to build confidence. Now you will think how to build confidence, it is not possible to build confidence in a day.
Here are some tips which will help you to build your confidence. Let’s begin:

1. Fake it till you make it

“Fake it till you make it” is a popular phrase in English which means that you have to pretend that you are an expert of anything. Now you have to apply same formula in English speaking as well.

You already know English all you need is to pretend that you can speak it with confidence. It may be confusing to you – that’s how to pretend? Let me explain you with an example.

Whenever someone clicks a picture of yours, you start giving poses and smiling in front of the camera, isn’t it? But it doesn’t mean that you are feeling happy from the inside. You are just faking that smile, so, that picture come out well. After all you need to put that picture on Facebook for decent likes and comments, therefore, it should be perfect. And the same you need to apply to improve your spoken English.

You have to fake it, although you don’t know the language very well, but you have to fake it. Show that confidence. Talk in English more, even if your friends are talking English, then there is no need to escape, just jump in the conversations, don’t be shy. Just fake it, and trust me this fake confidence will turn into real confidence.

2. Realize that your mistake doesn’t matter

Just focus on building yourself and never worry about what people think of you?.

If you will keep on thinking about your mistakes, you will never gain that confidence. So, just leave what people will say or think. While speaking English, you might be stressed about many things like
Oh my God! Is my grammar correct?
Has my pronunciation been wrong? The people I am talking to, are judging me for my English?
Ahhh! Just don’t worry, you are just overthinking.

Trust me, these people are far more worrying about themselves, they will never realize your mistakes, and if you make mistakes you are just learning. It is totally been fine to make mistakes. Most of us do it often. Just be confident about it.

3. Keep Speaking

The more you talk, the more you will learn and build confidence. Remember “Practice makes a man perfect”. It is the best way to learn the English language deeply.

Keep speaking and hearing the conversation in English as much as possible.
Mistakes will happen, they are part of practice sessions, but just work through them and surround yourself with better and more advanced English speakers.
It’s important to practice. Talk to yourself by looking at the mirror. It will really help you.

You can even practice your English speaking with Engvarta App.
All you have to do is talk, talk and some more talk in English. And Ofcourse with confidence!

Follow these tips to remove your hesitation while speaking in English and you will be able to speak English with Confidence.

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