CONVERSATION:
It is a real communication in
general. It generally appears as a part of other discourses like stories,
dramas, novels etc. But in many a time it is a casual talk on something among
two or more persons or characters. It must be developed by using polite way of
speaking. And sometimes impoliteness is excusable when the situation demands it
but should not be too rude or fresh in nature. Conversations should be usually
developed in three stages.
1. Introduction
2. Actual
conversation or topic
3. Leave taking
Introduction:
Introduction
is the initiation for a new conversation. One should start with greeting each
other is a formal thing.
Useful phrases:
1.
Hello or Hi or Good morning or Excuse me etc.
2.
How are you?
3.
How about you?
4.
How do you do?
5.
What have you been up to?
6.
It’s been long time since we met how are you man?
7.
I’m fine thank you, how are you?
8.
I’m OK and you?
9.
Hey, ……… it’s good to see you, what are you doing here?
10.
What a pleasant surprise?
11.
It’s pleasure to meet to.
12.
It’s really happy to me to be with you again.
13.
Meet my friend …………………
14.
Pardon me! etc.
E.g. 1
Asking for directions
Srujana: Hi
Shivani.
Shivani: Hi Srujana.
Srujana: It’s
long since we met. How are you?
Shivani: I’m fine
thank you. What about you?
Srujana: I feel
better. Thank you. Could you mind giving me some piece of information?
Shivani: It’s my
pleasure, if I could. Tell me how can I help you?
Srujana: I’m
looking for the new bus-stop. Can you tell me how to get there?
Shivani: Not
certainly. But once I’ve gone through the way. Let me recall it.
Yeah! I got it.
Srujana: Tell me.
Shivani: It’s a
long way to new bus-stop I think. Do you know the old one?
Srujana: Yes. Of
course.
Shivani: Then
it’s easy to find the new one. Just go the old bus-stop. Walk a while on the
Warangal high way until you reach a traffic signal corner.
Srujana: Aaaaa!
And then?
Shivani: Won’t
you wait until I tell you?
Srujana: I beg
your pardon.
Shivani: It’s OK.
Then take a left turn and go till you reach the Diamond Restaurant. There you
have to
take another turn
to the immediate right. That’s all you could see the board of the new bus-stop.
Srujana: Thank
you very much.
Shivani: You are
welcome. Where are you going to?
Srujana: It’s my
grandparent’s home town Koratla.
Shivani: When do
you come back?
Srujana: Soon
after I met my grandpa, I just return to home in the evening.
Shivani: Oho!
Srujana: I’ve to
leave quickly otherwise it’d be late for me to return. Will meet you again,
bye…
Shivani: Bye.
Have a nice journey.
Srujana: Thank
you. Bye…
E.g. 2 There happened an accident.
Prabhas is enquiring someone to know what happened. Write some conversation
between Prabhas and the other.
Prabhas: Excuse me sir.
Witness1: Yes. Please.
Prabhas: What happened?
Witness1: An accident
Prabhas: I am a reporter. Would you
like to tell me that clearly what happened?
Witness1: While my friend and I were
going to school ….
Prabhas: Who is your friend?
Witness1: Ramu. He is my best
friend.
Prabhas: Aaaaaa then while you were
going …..
Witness2: Excuse me sir … I’ll tell you … that while we were going to
school, we heard a shriek and suddenly we looked at that side where a bike was
coming speed towards this side.
Witness1: And there a boy was having
an ice-cream.
Witness2: We called out loudly that
boy to look out.
Witness1: But unfortunately it was
far away to us and the bike knocked him violently. The boy was injured
seriously. And then we called for 108.
Witness2: They responded well and
reached within a short time and take him to hospital.
Prabhas: What happened to that boy
who was riding the bike?
Witness1: Nothing happened to him
moreover he was drunk that a policeman had taken him to the
station.
