Burmese Families Meet up

[Steven Dragan]

Hey city group.

Let's meet up with our Burmese families this Thursday at 6. I will confirm with Pweh moo.

Erin. Abby. Lets talk about last week so we can decide where to go this week. Feel free to throw out suggestions.

Peace.
Steven

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[Erin J Martinez]

Jose & I won't be able to make it this week as we are taking some ESL teacher training Thurs. & Fri. night.  The last session we had with them went really well though! I can give you a call and give you a summary.

Thanks!
Erin

From:	Steven Dragan <steven...@yahoo.com>
To:	crossroad-cent...@googlegroups.com
Date:	03/27/2012 08:45 AM
Subject:	Burmese Families Meet up
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[Nathan & Jenilee Green]

Where is the training?  Sounds neat, Erin!

If anyone would like to see some textbooks or anything, please let me know!  I have a ton and have access to a lot!  I have really comprehensive grammar books, which is honestly my favorite subject to teach.  I see the students improve their English so much through grammar class.  

What is our goal?  Do we want to introduce them to our city or perfect their speaking ability?  Either way, I think it would be a good idea to make a goal and work toward it.  

Also, there are some really great websites with games/worksheets/powerpoints, etc.  One big thing that ESL teachers like to use is realia-- ya know, real resources from TV, print, store ads, coupons, books, songs, etc.  I've brought a bag full of random items from my house to teach vocab before.  That can make it fun and hands on. 

http://www.real-english.com/reo/index.html

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

www.busyteacher.org  (have to sign up, but it's free)

 http://azargrammar.com/materials/index.html   grammar power points, activities, etc

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/  games, worksheets, etc

http://www.eslcafe.com/  lots of info for teachers and students (activities, idea cookbook)

www.rong-chang.com  lots of activities in every discipline of ESL (reading, writing, speaking/listening, grammar)

[Erin J Martinez]

The training is at Jose's parents' church in Pleasant Hill. I sent out an email about it a while back.  I'm sure they still have openings if anyone is interested in taking it at the last minute!  It is $50 and it is a pretty significant time investment though.  Thurs. & Fri. evening 6:00 - 9:30 and 8:30 to 5:00 on Saturday.

That is a bunch of great ideas and resources Jenilee!! I'm bummed we will miss it this week!

[Abby Asamoah]

Steve, Erin might have called you already but 2 weeks ago, we went over some verbs, learned about body parts, what we do with those body parts and taught them some phrases that they wanted to know . We also reviewed about the city using the pictures you prepared. 

Thanks for all the resources Jenilee! I think that having a goal is a great idea! Can we ask Pweh moo about what they will like to gain from these lessons and set a goal from that? From my experience, perfecting their speaking ability sounds more beneficial but it is totally up to them.

We will miss you Erin and Jose! Thank you so much for making the commitment to get the training! $50 is a little too expensive for me so I don't think that I can make it but I will like to learn a lot from you guys!

Abby 

[Nathan & Jenilee Green]

We're not sure if we'll make it tonight, but we will try out best.  I have core group right before that and Nathan can't put the baby in his car (if you've seen his car, you'd know why ;)  lol)  So, I may be driving his car downtown and then have him meet us over there with Myri.  Hopefully we'll be there, if not we may need a couple more weeks to work out babysitting or something.  

[Lindsay Ramon]

I think I can go, but I might be about 30 min. late.

[Abby Asamoah]

Do we have any plans for tonight yet? I have some pictures of verbs that we can use. Also,  I don't know if you have already done this before but I was thinking that maybe we can talk about family members today. Teaching them grandfather, grandmother, mother, father...etc. and then asking them about how many family members they have here in the U.S. and back home. It might give us a chance to get to know them more and for them to get to know us more. Is this too simple?

Abby 

[Lindsay Ramon]

I think that sounds like a good idea!  I don't think it is too simple.  It is something that would be practical for them to know for conversational purposes, too, as that is common to talk about family with new people we meet.