This document provides guidelines and activities for teaching conversation skills to English language learners. It outlines general guidelines for selecting topics, making lessons relevant, integrating language skills, and focusing on listening and speaking without correction. Specific activities are suggested in areas like using photos, interviews, clothing, parts of the body, and current events. Additional activities involve games, poems, show-and-tell, and discussing television, movies, and recipes. Assessments include self-evaluations and checklists. Resources for lessons include textbook series, books, and websites. Contact information is provided for the presenters.
3. GENERAL GUIDELINES 1. Select a Competency/Topic: Conversation in Context 2. Make it Relevant/Meaningful 3. Integrate all Language Skills 4. Focus on Listening and Speaking 5. Model Correct Language: No Correction
4. FL. CURRICULUM COMPETENCIES 1. Communication 2. Civics, Family & Community Resources 3. Employment 4. Consumer Education 5. Health & Nutrition 6. Transportation & Travel 7. Safety & Security
5. ACTIVITIES 1. Telephone situations: conversation, message, call back (realia) 2. Use photos to talk about family members (visuals) 3. Interview (role-play) 4. Clothes, Advertisements (Language Experience Approach) 5. Parts of the Body (Total Physical Response) Symptoms (visuals, mimic, role-play 6. How did you come to the US? (experiential learning) 7. Newspaper articles: a crime, a weather threat (current events, relevancy)
6. OTHER ACTIVITIES Games Poetry, Songs Show-and-Tell Riddles and Jokes Exchange recipes Television shows and Movies
8. RESOURCES Textbook Series? ______________ Cambridge University Press: Keep Talking by F. Klippel Five-Minute Activities by P. Ur and A. Wright Grammar Activities by P. Ur Just Listening and Speaking (with CD) by M. Cavendish Oxford University Press: The Oxford ESOL Handbook by P. Schellekens
