After working on narratives and story-telling, I stayed a bit on topic by having Kyung tell me what he and his son did over Spring Break... in typical chronological fashion.
This lesson was an interview (slash) mixer (slash) role-play in which I asked Kyung what he did. He told me before his son's Spring Break that he had planned to go to Universal Studios with the family, as well as traveling all throughout the state of Florida. I knew this was going to be great to talk about, so I kept this lesson mostly on communicative skills.
I started the interview by asking him if he used any English over his trip. Regrettably, he said no, and I let him know this. I said, "Kyung, you have to speak English!" I took that opportunity to do a sort of 20 minute role-play in which I was an annoying tourist and he asking for directions, ordering food, etc...
Then we talked mostly about his trip to Miami, Key West, Tampa, Clearwater, etc... There was a map of the state at which I told him to point to all the locations where he went (listening comp). He did so, and I asked him what he did there, etc...
He was very excited to let me know what he did.
Okay... next blog entry
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