1 Speaking and listening in everyday life

Figure 1 Everyday speaking and listening

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Five photos showing people speaking and listening: two men talking at a barbers; parents talking to a child; a woman and a man at work talking in a warehouse; a man talking on his phone; three women talking in a coffee shop.

Figure 1 Everyday speaking and listening

You start this session by thinking about the speaking and listening you do in your everyday life. How can you speak so that people understand you? Why is this course about listening as well as speaking? And just how important is body language?