CONVERSATION PARTNER 5 - Conv club at the Globe. Meeting 5
This past session at the Globe was attended by Dongsoek, and two new students, Lulu (her English name) and Christina. Lulu is from China and appears to be about 26-28 years old, whereas Christina is a slightly older woman in her late 40’s from Rio di Janeiro. Interested in both of their histories, I asked them how it was that they had come here to FSU, and how they know of the conversation group, being that neither Lulu or Christina are CIES or FSU students. Coincidentally both Lulu’s and Christina’s husbands are post-doc fellows working here at FSU. This was a good group to work with because all of them had a fairly high level of verbal and aural comprehension skills, but still showed some areas that needed improvement, which allowed of plenty of opportunity for subtle recasting or modeling. In terms of subject matter we spoke about airport conditions n the student’s various countries, hobbies, cooking habits, and Christina’s children, one of whom was born here in Tallahassee.
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