Communicati

ve Strategy
 Fast Talk:
The students will be paired and
will exchange thoughts about
each other rapidly in one minute.
They are free to say anything
about their partners so long as
there are no foul words.
What difficulties did you encounter
in the fast talk?
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GROUP ACTIVITY
Role Play: The class will be grouped into five groups
and will create a communicative scenario applying
turn-taking as a communicative strategy based on the
specific setting they will pick.
a. Home f. Street
b. School g. market
c. Department Store
d. Restaurant
e. Church
Do’s and don’ts in turn-taking.
1. Ways of turn-taking and turn-giving
a. Create silence
b. Ask a question
c. Use gestures
d. Make eye contact
2. Conversation Violations
a. Overlap
b. Interruption
c. Grabbing the floor
d. Hogging the floor
e. Silence
QUIZ
 Directions: Select the most
acceptable, polite and meaningful
response in each situation by
choosing the letter of the best answer.
Direction: Identify what communicative
strategy is best used in the following
situations. Write whether a statement or a
dialogue is nomination, turn-taking,
termination, restriction, topic shift, topic
control or repair. Write your answer on the
space provided before the number.
6. A student is presenting his or her report in front
of the class.
7. You were having conversations with your friends
about the earthquake which happened last night.
8. The Department of Health Committee were
exchanging ideas about possible solutions to the
increasing number of infected COVID 19 patients.
9. The teacher is asking the students to give their
ideas about what is communication.
10. You were asked by your teacher to
brainstorm about the importance of
understanding the use of the different
communicative strategies.
11. You were told by your Oral Communication
teacher to deliver your speech using English
Language only.
12. A doctor is explaining his/her diagnosis to a
patient, at the same time, the patient is asking the
doctor for his/her medical advice in regard to his
or her diagnosis.
13. Students are having their debate activity
about the advantage and disadvantages of our
new normal world.
14. You were by your teacher to give your answer
based on the choices given only.
15. In a class, you are going to make a chain story,
where one student gives the first scenario and will
be added by the next student and it continues to
the next until it will be completed.
16. Your friend ask you to tell something about
your most painful experience but instead, you
told him about the most exciting moments of your
life.
17. You happen to mispronounce the word NIKE
into “nayk, instead of nayki”. Your mother told
you on how to pronounce it correctly.
18. Your teacher was discussing the lesson, yet
there was one word in which you didn’t hear it
clearly, so you asked your teacher to kindly repeat
it for you.
19. You were chatting with a friend over the phone,
when someone knocks at your door, so you told
your friend to give him/her a call later.
20. You had a very exciting discussion on the lesson
presented by your teacher, a lot of questions has
been raised by your classmates yet the teacher runs
out of time in answering the questions, so he/she
said to continue the
discussion on the next meeting.
I. True or False.
Directions: Read each statement
carefully and write TRUE if it is
correct and FALSE if it is wrong.
1. Repair in communication refers to any
limitation you may have
as a speaker.
2. Turn-taking pertains to the process by
which people decide
who takes the conversational floor.
3. Communication must be only acceptable,
polite and meaningful when talking to your
superior.
4. Termination refers to conversation
participants’ close initiating expressions that end
a topic in a conversation.
5. Nomination covers how procedural formality
and informality affects the development of
conversation.
Reflection