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Speaking 'Bowling Style’ vs. 'Tennis Style'
With the CoreComm Learning System, students learn Core Communication skills and techniques. Students learn the skills they need to communicate with Anybody, Anywhere, and Anytime. As an example, let's look at 'Bowling Style' and 'Tennis Style' conversations.

Bowling Style Conversations
Sadly, the 'Bowling' Style communication pattern is how many students speak English, even after studying English for a long time. When A asks B a question, B answers then stops. B expects A to continue asking questions. A often does. Then after A has asked all their questions on B's topic, B will begin asking questions about A's topic.
This style of communication is one sided and not really interactive, and it is not the normal style of conversation or communication that native English speakers use. It does happen, but not all the time. This style can be been seen in some situations, for example when a police officer is talking to a speeding driver.

Police Officer: "How fast were you going?”
Speeding Driver:?"I don't know.”
Police Officer:“Show me your license. What's your name?”
Speeding Driver:?"Bob Johnson.”
Police Officer:“What's your address?”
Speeding Driver:“ 21 Maple Street”

This kind of conversation style isn't very interactive and it is not the normal style of conversation between native English speakers. Yet, many ESL lessons teach this style or they teach a few sentences that students are expected to memorize and use in certain situations- this is called the Communicative Language Approach or English For Special Purposes (ESP). Students when taking tests with listening sections, or when talking to other English speakers often have trouble in a normal conversation, because normal conversations are more interactive. Let's take a look at what a more usual English conversation looks like, the‘Tennis’style conversation.

‘Tennis Style' Conversations
'Tennis Style' conversations are often the more natural type of conversation that English speakers use. And this is the kind of conversation style that students are able to develop with the CoreComm Learning System.

In the 'Tennis' style conversation, A asks B a question about A's topic. B answers the question, then B asks A a question on B's topic. This continues and often, both topics are talked about at the same time. This kind of conversation is found on many English tests (i.e. TOEIC™ or TOEFL™). And many students have trouble listening to this kind of question, they also have trouble listening and talking in conversations with native English speakers.

Also, speakers may ask each other more than one question at the same time. So, normal conversations are a mixture of the 'Tennis' and 'Bowling' styles. This is one of the important core communication skills that students build with the CoreComm Learning System. The ability to use natural conversation styles, to be able to listen to and talk to Anybody, Anywhere, Anytime in Multiple Topic Environments (MTE).

 

 

 

Parts of Speech

 

Part of Speech	Function	Example Words	Example Sentence
Verb	Action or State	(to) be, have, do, like, work,  sing, can, must	English is a fun language to learn. I like the  CoreComm Learning System to learn English.
Noun	Thing or Person	pen, dog, work, music, city,  Toronto, teacher, John	This is my dog. He lives in his own dog house.
Adjective	Describes a Noun	a/an, the, some, good, big,  blue, well, interesting	That is a big dog. Do you like big dogs?
Adverb	Describes a Verb, Adjective  or Adverb	quickly, silently, well, badly,  very, really	My dog runs quickly. When he is very happy, he  runs really quickly.
Pronoun	Replaces a Noun	I, you, he, she, some, they	Hanako is Japanese. She is beautiful.
Preposition	Links a Noun to another  word	to, at, after, on, but	They went to the office on Saturday.
Conjunction	Joins Clauses, Sentences or  Words	and, but, when	I like tea and I like coffee.  I like tea and coffee.  I like tea but I don't like coffee.
Interjection	Short Exclamation,  sometimes inserted into a  sentence	oh!, ouch!, hi!, well	Ouch! That hurts!  Hi! How are you? Well, I'm not sure.

Verb Tenses

 

Past	Present	Future

 

Prepositions of Place & Time

Prepositions of Place

Preposition	Use for	Examples
at	exact time/ place	9:00 a.m./ one o'clock/ midnight/ at Yokohama Station/ at the office
on	exact date	Friday/ Friday, January 1st/
in	time period	January/ the Spring/

 

 

 

Examples of Prepositions in Use:

• Let's meet at 9 am.
• Let's meet at 9 am, on Friday.
• Let's meet at 9 a.m., on Friday, April 7.
• Let's meet in 4 weeks, on Friday, 7 April.
• Let's meet in the Spring, on Friday, 7 April at my office.

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Transitional Words & Phrases

 

First
Second	Then
And third	Next
	After that
	Later
	And finally

 

 

 

Examples of Transition Words & Phrases

Transition words and phrases are very useful to connect your ideas and communicate them.

• First, go in the water. Second, put on your swim fins. And third, put on your diving mask and enjoy snorkeling.
• First, go in the water. Then, put on your swim fins. Next, put on your mask and enjoy snorkeling.

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Adjective Order

 

What the Adjective Describes	Examples
Quantity	two, three, a few, several, many
Value/ Opinion	delicious, wonderful, beautiful
Size	big, large, small, tall, short
Temperature	hot, warm, cool, cold
Age	new, young, old, 25 years old
Shape	triangle, square, round, flat
Colour	blue, red, green, yellow
Origin	Canadian, Japanese,
Material	steel, silk, wooden, plastic

Examples of Multiple Adjective use

• There are three delicious chocolate cakes on the table.
• It's a large new house. It has three beautiful large bedrooms, and hardwood floors.
• She bought a beautiful old Japanese silk kimono.
• The last three days have been wonderful, warm and sunny.

 

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