Effective communication includes skills as problem solving, conflict management and the explaining (expressing) and understanding, which is one of the teacher competencies. It is offered as a course since the alteration of the curriculum in 2006 of pedagogical faculties. In this article it will be focussed on explaining and understanding as the scope of effective communication skills. It will be examined what communication is, which skills are needed for an effective communication, and which skills are needed for explaining and understanding. Thus, what is due to the sender; is an analysis adequate to understand the meaning of the words or of the sentence as in the spoken message; is it possible to understand the feelings and thoughts that cannot be expressed with words; it sought answers to questions such as what is like the importance of the ability to perception and to empathize with someone to understand him. For this, Literature search was conducted and described. This paper is arguing, that having knowledge of effective communication doesn t mean having acquired skills of effective communication. Therefore it focuses on various forms of exercises in order to build a bridge between knowledge and skills. As the material for the practise and exercises it is chosen the poem from Orhan Veli I can not explain . The poem will be analyzed for content analysis and discourse analysis. There are presented examples on exercises to explaining and to understanding. With these examples it is aimed to underlie the skills of perception, of feeling empathy with someone else; to tell a subject, to understand someone or something etc. It tries to present a didactic model for the acquisition of these skills.