Teaching my first two Zoom lessons yesterday showed me that, as I suspected, students need even more help online than face to face when it comes to smoothly starting and ending conversations, small talk, conversational reactions, etc. Luckily, I’ve written eight articles (including one new one) and two lists of useful language on the topic, and have lots more coming soon, all here:
Thank you! These are quite relevant questions for me and for many teachers who have also switched to zoom lessons. I’ll check it out.