Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j139Xbn08629; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 04:33:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 04:33:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20050203093037.44604.qmail@web41102.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: joe ramos <gangfree1@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10706] Re: Field trips with large classes X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 2228 Lines: 76 First of all 12 people is not a large group. You can do many things for example you can plan a trip to a supermarket. You can give the students a list of things to buy and they have to tell what isle they found it and the total price of the items. Just be creative. Don't worry if they speak their language you are not the language police or Sister Mary weather!!! LIGHTEN UP MAKE IT A LEARNING EXPERINCE & have fun!!! Remember they are adults not children or do you have people under the age of 18??? You can plan a trip to the library or to a large book store like Borders. I took my ESL class this summer and we car pooled with several vehicles. Everything went well I even helped them buy some books with my discount card. Of course they gave me the cash first. You can also go by public transportation if it is avaliable in your area. Just make sure all your students buy into it. A little warning one of my students was a female of middle eastern extraction. WQhen we returned to the school her father came to pick her up and he was up set because she was in a van with a mixed group of males and females. Once I explained it was our assignment he was okay. He thought his daughter was trying to go out with some of the male members of her class. The lesson is don't think like an American ask questions and be sensitve to other people's culture. And most important is have fun!!! Go on a field trip to wendy's Burger King a Bowling alley or some fun place in your community but remember to check with all your students that it is allright. Joe Ramos --- Flannery Quinn <flanneryq@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have about 12 students from many countries in my > high-intermediate class. A student asked me if we > would go to the museum for a field trip on the free > admittance day. > I feel unsure about taking a field trip with a large > group. > Any suggestions for activities during a field trip? > I > am afraid that students of the same language will > group together and not speak English unless I am > next > to them. > Flannery > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >
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