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English Advanced Conversation: Week 1

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It’s a new semester. Welcome to the Advanced ESL Conversation class. I hope you’re ready to advance.

English Conversation Syllabus

Here is the syllabus for our Advanced English conversation class.

ESL Activities

This conversation and vocabulary worksheet has words which might look similar but have different meanings.

Work with a partner and explain the differences between the words. Make examples for each sentence.

Creativity Lesson

Here is a quick exercise that requires you to have some imagination and creativity. This is a lesson that was used by a business professor  class in California.

You and your partner have 5000 won. Think of ways you can make as much money as possible in two hours.

Debrief

What ideas did you come up with? What do you think about the ideas developed by the California students?

6 Hats Thinking

Here is a description of the six thinking hats we saw in class.

O Me ! Oh Life

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Learn poetry and writing with listenign and reflection exercises from eslwriting.org.

O H ME O LIFE

Here is an ESL writing exercise that begins with a poem and asks English students to write a considered response.

Exercise Structure

1  Read the poem O Me! Oh Life! by Walt Whitman.
2  Students write a response piece by briefly discussing their interpretation of the poem.
3  Students answer this question, based on the last part of the poem, “What verse will you contribute?”

The Poem

O Me! O Life!

Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

 

O ME! O life!… of the questions of these recurring;

Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities filled with the foolish;

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