IELTS Speaking Practice on People Skills with interesting activities for advanced ESL students
Key Words: people skills, communication skills, interaction, interpersonal relationship, social skills, socialization, etc.
Questions about people skills
- Can you describe a situation where strong people skills helped someone achieve a goal, even if they didn’t have the most technical expertise?
2. In a team environment, why might strong people skills be just as important, if not more important, than individual technical skills?
3. Imagine a world where everyone had exceptional technical skills but no people skills. What challenges might arise?
Related Techniques to develop people skills
- Be a student of those who are higher than you, a teacher of those who are lower than you, and a fellow-traveler of those who are at the same level. (Jack Canfield)
Argue for/against
Please take an either positive or negative position to the statement below. You cannot be neutral. If all students have the same idea, the teacher will play devil’s advocate to have a heated argument.
Interpersonal communication is more important than intrapersonal communication.
Photo Scanning
Please examine the photo below and try to come up with as many reasons as you can in support of the following statement:
These people have great interpersonal and people skills.
Call for Feedback
Please help us to improve the quality of this class and our online community (LELB Society) by expressing your precious ideas about this question:
Which one is more important to you: self-assessment (editing your own comments), peer-assessment (being corrected by your classmates) or teacher-assessment? Why?
4- Are you a type of person who easily start conversation with others?
Start –> starts, because it refers to ‘person’.
3. What are small talks and why are they important to communicate with others?
2. Why is it crucial for you to develop people skills?
1. Are people skills categorized according to intrapersonal relationships or interpersonal relationships?