Though it is true that preparing for and recording a conversation can help you improve your English communication skills, stopping at that point doesn't give you the potential to take your learning to a higher level. There are many ways to do this, and your teacher may introduce several to you. But a few basic follow-up activities are transcriptions , summaries , and transummaries .
Transcriptions are conversations in written form.
After recording your conversation, your teacher may ask you to write a transcription or some kind of summary of the conversation. A complete transcription is a full writing of your recorded conversation, from beginning to end. If your are asked to do a complete transcription, your conversation is probably short. A limited transcription is a transcription done within a certain time limit, like 30 minutes. To do a limited transcription you find a part of the conversation you are interested in studying, write down the start time, and transcribe for the time limit.