I think this activity was effective in a couple ways. First, the discussion allowed the teacher to check that students had done their listening assignment. In addition to checking completion, the activity allowed students to share their experiences and which resources they used to complete the assignment (BBC.com, TED talks, ESL Lab, VOA news, etc). The partner activity seems to promote free speaking in class and allows students to speak with minimal apprehensions about making mistakes. It seemed like the students were really engaged in the discussions and had few apprehensions about speaking freely with their partners. After this observation, I employed a similar activity in my grammar class as a warm-up where students stood in two lines and were given incomplete questions. The students had to complete the questions by changing the given verbs into the present perfect tense. Then students asked their partner the question and they discussed. The questions were mostly, “Have you ever…” questions, so they were of a somewhat personal nature, asking students to speak about their own experiences. Just as in the oral skills class activity, my students seemed very engaged in the discussion and seemed to enjoy the activity over all. I liked how the teacher incorporated cultural aspects of making small talk and ending conversations politely in the activity. I feel like these elements could be incorporated in conversation activities in other skills classes as well, which would reinforce learning across all the students’ classes. This type of activity also has the potential to reinforce grammar points. In the class I observed, the topic of quantifiers and count/non-count nouns came up.