Conversation Topics <ul><li>Role play a script from a textbook </li><li>Role play using facts from a textbook situation or story</li><li>Brainstorm things you would say; Have native speaker brainstorm what they would say (to get more native phrases or topics).</li><li>Find movie scenes that do these things and imitate those</li></ul><ol><li>Conversation in a restaurant about the food (minkälaista) OR conversation at a home cooked meal about the food (Grammar: Partitive; Vocab: Food Adjectives, Food)</li><li>Conversation in a restaurant about the environment, service, and prices (Grammar: Partitive; Vocab: Adjectives)</li><li>What is a typical day like for you? What do you do, eat, etc.? Could alternatively describe a holiday. (Grammar: verb conjugation, direct objects; Vocab: Verbs, Expressions of time)</li><li>Talk about your hometown or favorite or least favorite city and what it is like, such as weather or things to do. (Grammar: Partitive, Inessive; Vocab: Places and things, Thing Adjectives, Weather)</li><li>Talk about yourself including personality and how you are the same or different from your family. (Grammar: Comparative, Elative; Vocab: Personality Adjectives)</li><li>Welcoming guests to your home and complimenting/thanking the host at a dinner party or other event</li><li>Telling someone how to help clean up or set up for or after dinner</li><li>Describing what you did during a vacation/weekend, what the weather was like, and ask what someone else did. (Grammar: verb conjugation, direct objects; Vocab: Weather, Verbs, Expressions of time)</li><li>Discuss items on a menu to order (Grammar: Partitive, Comparative, question forms; Vocab: Preferences, Food Adjectives, Food)</li><li>Order at a sandwich or deli counter and respond to terms like mitä muuta? Ja sitten? Saako olla muuta? (Grammar: partitive, question forms; Vocab: requests, food, numbers, measurements)</li><li>Talk to a vendor in a farmer's market. Use adjectives like fresh, old, big, small. The vendor should: praise the merchandise, comment on the weather, say there is good fish in the market but no meat and suggest a different market for meat. Use words like saanko, haluan, haluaisin, otan, antakaa minulle... (Grammar: partitive, question forms; Vocab: food + price adjectives, requests, food, quantities)</li><li>Trade recipes. Tell someone how to cook something. Learn how to cook something new. (Grammar: imperative, partitive; Vocab: cooking, utensils, quantities)</li></ol>