I am thinking about what to do for my night class coming up next month. I have a very limited amount of time to prepare my students for their trip abroad. They need more vocabulary so I think teaching lots of vocabulary and making that vocabulary stick is very important. They need lots of practice speaking. They especially need a lot of practice with conversation but how to go about doing it? If they have a set dialogue then they don’t have to improvise and improvisation is a vital part of conversational skill. A circumlocution game or a game like Scategories may be the key. With an increased vocabulary they should at least be able to one-word-shotgun their way through a conversation.
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