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Tuesday, 27 October
EFL Session - The use of Games in ESOL pedagogy. Why do we play Games? Discuss the Question. We played lots of games: Games for enhancing vocabulary, scattergories, apples to apples,tongue twister relays, syllable scattergories, word stress- Go fish, noun clauses, dominoes. Verb tense review game: 

Wednesday ,26 October

We visited the Woodland elves, Shary Willamson showed us her lovely Woodland and told us the history. we had Harding Home Tour, Ohio State House Tour, capitol square, Educational Services and Museum Collection. The organizations we visited differ from La Connexion, it is ETSS. The main focus is not teaching English. not only helps students do homework but also serves as a children's center. To my mind, these organizations are social institutions. then we visited Glanwood community center. We helped students to do their homework in math, English, drawing. we played basketball with them and we danced together. Hera they are:

EFL Session #4. 

The session stared with DR Spallinger. we discussed effective strategies for teaching speaking, listening skills. When discussing listening, it is important to remember some key terms- Schema theory: content, formal and language. we discussed pre, during and post activities. There are some useful websites:

Let's play Fluency wheel. it helps students to develop their fluency: 

Conversation circle. one activity that will help you not only with your spoken conversational English skills will be leading conversation circles. 

Impromptu Speeches:

1) give students a short prompt and a few minutes to prepare,

 2) can focus on eye contact, 

3) can focus on fluency/development, 

4) can focus on organizatioonal patterns(PREP):

         P- Point of view

         R- Reason

         E-Example/Evidence

         P- Point of view restated

Language for:Stating you opinion, agreeing, disagreeing, politely interrupting. 

Communicative Framework for teaching pronunciation

steps:

1) description and analysis

2) controlled practice

3) guided practice

4) communicative practice

The session starts with Dr. Sheri  on using Corpus Linguistics, interesting way of teaching vocabulary from authentic context while preparing students to Service Learning. 
After that the sessions with Dr. Sarah - team building and different roles in team which is very important while working in teams.
And the last - international cafe,  meeting teachers and students from BGSU. we talked about education, Society, culture.

The session was photo journalism.we talked about diversity and the differences in cultures. the students came to the university and we talked to them , introduce ourselves to each other. we discussed with them the diversity wheel and talked about the differences between cultures , we moved out to take some photos and try to make stories about them and emphasis the concept of diversity after that we went  back and choose a photo , write a caption to it then share it to the group. Here is my picture and capture. 

'Students are standing disconnected from each other at the BGSU. I think it is " the death of conversation" or may be they just filling the gaps between conversations. This is unfamiliar for me and for my country, Georgia.'