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Extra Conversation class - Middle school - any ideas?

 
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butlerian



Joined: 04 Sep 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:38 pm    Post subject: Extra Conversation class - Middle school - any ideas? Reply with quote

I've been told I'm to teach a group of 30 middle school students from a variety of schools for an hour and a half every other Saturday afternoon. It's a conversation class, but the level of the students (a mixed class) is not very high - as many middle school teachers will know.

Can anyone recommend any activities to interest them and encourage talking?
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kimchi story



Joined: 23 Nov 2006

PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like to use this one for a first class. Print of two sets of id cards for a group of thirty. I like that it makes it gets the ball rolling for choosing English names, if you go that route.

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Fountain/2131/funideaexplan.html

And if you're not already on them, ddeuble's esnips site and bogglesworldesl.com are both great for interactive resources that I have found work with the ms age group.
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butlerian



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kimchi story wrote:
I like to use this one for a first class. Print of two sets of id cards for a group of thirty. I like that it makes it gets the ball rolling for choosing English names, if you go that route.

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Fountain/2131/funideaexplan.html

And if you're not already on them, ddeuble's esnips site and bogglesworldesl.com are both great for interactive resources that I have found work with the ms age group.


Thanks for that. I have tried a similar activity to that before, but it didn't work very well because my students have great difficult pronouncing Western names, and their vocabularly is so limited that they don't understand most of the occupations etc. Maybe I could spend a lot more time going over the activity and the key words, but that would reduce the time available for conversation.
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kimchi story



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

butlerian wrote:
Maybe I could spend a lot more time going over the activity and the key words, but that would reduce the time available for conversation.


Your welcome, and that's a good point - the intro is a 45 minute class on its own, in my experience.
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