Follow-up Questions and Comments: (part II)

Follow a prior question with another question or comment to continue the conversation.

• What do you mean?
• Why ___? (For example: Why did that happen? Why do you think so?)
• How ___? ( For example: How did you like it? How was it?)
• Interesting! Tell me more.
• What happened next?
• What did you like/not like about it?

Example:

Jane: “I went to the health conference yesterday and it was so surprising!”

Max: “What do you mean?”

Jane: “This year all of the current health recommendations have been changed. Everything is so different and dieticians don’t know what to do about it.”

Max: “Interesting! Tell me more.”

Jane: “Dieticians have been giving the same health advice for decades, but now they have to change their thinking.”