Are you someone who wants to improve your speaking skills in English but often find yourself struggling to start a conversation?

Well, you’re not alone. Many learners face difficulty initiating a conversation, especially when they are not confident in their language abilities. However, having a good speaking starter can make a huge difference in overcoming this hurdle.

In this blog, you will find some useful speaking starters that will help you confidently start a conversation and keep it going. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced learner, this speaking/ sharing starters will help you have fun and interesting conversations. So, let’s dive in and explore the world of speaking starters!

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Future Perfect

We use the future perfect (will have + past participle) to say something that will be finished before a certain time in the future.

This tense is frequently used with the time expressions by + day/time or in + time expression
by + a time expression = at the latest
We form the negative form with won’t have+ past participle
We make questions by inverting the subject and will (Will you have + past participle …?)

Future Continuous

We use the future continuous (will + be + verb+ing) to say that an action will be in progress at a certain time in the future.

Let’s compare it with the simple future:

We‘ll have dinner at 8 o’clock (= we will start dinner at 8 o’ clock)

We‘ll be having dinner at 8 o’clock (= we will start dinner before 8 o’clock/ at 8 o’clock we will already have started eating)

We sometimes use the future continuous, like the present continuous, to talk about things that are already planned or decided
We form the negative with won’t be + verb+ ing
We make questions by inverting the subject and will (Will you be + verb+ing…?)