Active Listening Drills

Partner Says Best Guess: My Partner Feels Active Listening Response
1. "Only 10 more days until my vacation!  Thank God!"  
2. "Will you go to the doctor with me tomorrow?"  
3. "I want to grow a beard.  It is MY face!"  
4. "I can't meet the deadline that my boss gave me!"  
5. "Will you look at all that snow?"  
6. "I can't find my eye glasses!  I have been looking everywhere!"  
7. I have a very hard time at parties!  So, I don't want to go!"  
8. "There is a Red Sox game at 7 o'clock!"  
9. "I missed the bus!"  
10. "This is better if we do it together!"  
11. "What an idiot cop!  Giving ME a ticket.  I wasn't the ONLY one speeding."  
12. "Leave me alone!  I don't want to talk to you or anyone!  You don't care what happens to me anyhow!"  
13. "Do you have to invite them?"  
14. "I want to go home now!"  
15 "I have finished this project.  What do you think?"  

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