Interact with your speaking partner

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with two

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partners but it's very important to

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interact well with your partner

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so

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what do i mean by interact well well

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it's including your partner in the

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conversation or sometimes

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asserting yourself

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in the conversation

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because you don't know what type of

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partner you're going to get you could

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have a partner who is very talkative

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that dominates the the conversation or

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on the other hand it could be a partner

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who is very

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nervous or very shy and doesn't talk

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much so you have to then include them in

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the conversation

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one of the biggest mistakes that people

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make is

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treating the collaborative tasks like

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monologues so one partner will speak for

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let's say a minute and then the other

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partner will speak for a minute and then

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they will finish

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that's not the way it should be done it

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should be lots of um

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short interactions so

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one partner presenting their ideas and

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asking their the opinion of their

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partner and then back and forth back and

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forth and that can be difficult when

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you're nervous because you're already

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people tend to get a bit self-centered

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when they're nervous and they're

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thinking about what they are doing and

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how they are performing

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but you have to take your partner into

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consideration so that's in the

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collaborative task and in the

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discussions at the end of all of these

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exams