﻿Hello everybody. My name's Emma. And welcome to today's lesson. I'm looking forward to today's session and I hope you are too. I can't wait to get started. But before we do, just a quick reminder. We here at Oak, are here to support any approaches you might already be using, and any work you might have already been set. We know this lesson is going out to so many different children and families. So if you're not sure or have any questions, please do contact your child's school or use your speech and language therapy team. In today's session, we'll be beginning by thinking and talking about why we talk to other people. We're going to share some ideas about how we talk to people, and then we're going to have a go practising some of our conversations or talking. Throughout the activities, I'll be sharing some hints and tips to help you be able to feel confident in talking to other people, and also to help your adult help you get the most out of these activities. So for today's session, you'll need some scissors, some colouring pencils, some writing equipment, and the downloadable resource that's available on the Oak website with this lesson. But before we begin, find a quiet place where you won't be disturbed for the lesson. Turn off any distractions or notifications that you might have running on your device, and make sure that you and your adult are seated comfortably. When you're ready, let's begin. Okay, let's start by doing some talking and thinking about why we talked to people. When people talk to each other, it's called a conversation. There are a few reasons why people talk to each other or have conversations. Here are the three top reasons. Sometimes people have conversations in order to get something that they need. For example, I might talk to a waiter in a restaurant because I need some food, and he will help me get the food that I need. The second main reason is to help learn information from other people. By asking questions of other people, we can learn things from what they tell us. The other reason we talk to people is to give information to people, to share our thoughts and ideas with them. Talking to other people helps us get what we need, if we need something. But it also helps us learn about other people and other things. Talking to people helps us get to know them, and is key in helping us form friendships. So for our first activity, I'd like you to take a few moments to talk and think with your adult. With your adult, think about what you would need to say in these situations. The first situation is what would you say to your parent or carer if you were hungry? Then think about, what would you say to your teacher, if you were stuck on your work? Then think about, what would you say to a waiter if you needed the toilet when you were at a restaurant? And then last of all, think about what you would say if you were lost in a supermarket and needed to find your parent or carer? Take a few moments to discuss each of these situations and think about what you would say. And then when you finish, come back to the video and press play to continue. When we're getting ready to talk to people, we need to remember these four things. The first thing is that we need to get our talking partner's attention before we start talking. We can usually do this by getting eye contact, which is where we look in each other's eyes, or by standing near so that we're in a good conversational distance so that we can hear each other and know what each other are saying. The second thing, is that we need to be using our indoor voices. This is where our volume is at just the right level. We don't want to shout and we don't want to whisper. This would make conversation tricky. Indoor voices are just right for conversation. We can start a conversation by using a greeting. And we talked about greetings in lesson eight. Greetings are a great way of initiating or starting conversation. Once we've greeted someone, we could then ask, or answer a question if someone has asked a question of us. Or we could make a comment. This will help to build conversation because you and your conversation partner will have begun talking. In this activity, we're going to have a go practising using conversation questions. With your talking partner, I'd like you to talk about a recent weekend or holiday activity. You and your adult or talking partner need to start by telling the other person about their weekend or holiday news. The other person, the listener, needs to ask some finding out questions. These could be, what did you do? Who did you go with? Or, where did you go? These are just a few examples of questions that you could ask about your talking partner's holiday or weekend news. But you can think about the questions that you want to ask with your conversation partner, as you're having a go at this activity. Maybe, you can add some more questions to find out more information from your talking partner. When you've had to go asking some conversation questions, come back to the video and press play, and we'll continue with the lesson. To help us grow conversations and keep conversation with our talking partner going, we can ask finding out questions like you just did. Finding out questions can be questions like who, what, where, when, how, or why? By asking these questions, we'll be finding out information from our talking partner. And then we can listen and think about their answers. Once we've thought about their answers, we can try asking another question or a comment, and that's taking turns in talking. This is how we grow conversations. It's really important in conversation that we take turns to talk and ask questions. It's important that we let the other person answer our questions before we start talking again, and that we use pausing to give our talking partner the chance to ask us a question in return. In your downloadable resource, I've prepared a game called the Conversation Garden Game. Each player will need a garden, and then one person has to choose the topic of the conversation. This is the seed that we're going to plant in our gardens. You and your talking partner then need to start a conversation by talking about that topic, taking it in turns to either ask a question or make a comment about that topic. So every question or comment, you'll get a flower. You can watch the flowers grow in your conversation garden. Don't forget to continue to use the downloadable resources for ideas on how to use questions to start and build conversation with adults and your peers. Try and think about different questions that you could ask different people to start conversation with them. Well, that brings us to the end of today's lesson. A really big well done on all the fantastic thinking and learning that you've achieved today, on talking to other people. First, adults, I'd like you to look back on your notes and identify three important things that you've learned today. Second, if you're able to, please take a picture of some of the conversations or the topics that you've been talking about. You could also take a picture of your conversation garden game. You could ask a parent or carer to record this, and share it with your school so that they can see the fantastic progress that you're making with your interaction and communication. If you'd like, you could also ask your parent or carer to send a picture of your conversation garden game to @OakNational on Twitter, so I can see your lovely progress too. Well, all that's left for me to say is thank you, but take care and enjoy the rest of your learning. Bye bye.

Scaffolds to begin work on simple to and fro conversation

In this lesson, we will introduce the reasons why people talk to each other. It provides the scaffolds to begin work on simple to and fro conversation. Resources provided by University of Gloucestershire (CC BY-NC-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0)

Lesson overview:Talking to people

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