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next
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we will see a demonstration of a method
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called community language learning or
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cll
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based upon the more general counseling
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learning approach to adult education
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developed by charles curran
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cll calls upon teachers to become
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skillful understandings of let their
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learners as whole persons
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becoming a skillful understander means
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recognizing and accepting the struggle
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students face
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as they attempt to internalize another
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language
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watch how whole person learning is put
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into practice in the cll demonstration
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lesson by my colleague bonnie mannell
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what we're going to be beginning today
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we're going to work for two days
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on our homes
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our houses apartments wherever it is
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that we live
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and i'm going to be asking you to think
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about your home
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now you probably want to think about the
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home in your country
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unless you really feel that you've been
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in this country long enough that you
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really have a home here
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in that case you can think about your
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home here
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but otherwise when i ask you to think of
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your home try to sort of let your mind
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go back
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to your country to your town countryside
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wherever it is you live and see your own
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house
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and then we're going to work on some of
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the vocabulary that you need to describe
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your home
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and so we'll be working on pronunciation
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and intonation in describing our homes
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today
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so as i said we're going to begin with
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you thinking about your home
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so use your mind's eye
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kind of go back and see your house
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or apartment whatever it is you live in
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some of you can close your eyes if you
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want to if it makes it a little bit
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easier right instead of being here in
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the classroom but just see that place
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where you live
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and see what's around it
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what's outside
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feel the temperatures the smells
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everything that goes with your house
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walk inside
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and go through all the different rooms
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that you have in your home
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as you're walking through those rooms
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you probably see a lot of objects and
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things
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that give you certain feelings and
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emotions
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and maybe even people the people who
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live in the house
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okay
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now with that sort of picture in your
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mind i'd like you to turn to the person
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who's sitting next to you and describe
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your home
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you really want them to have the same
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picture in their mind that you have in
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yours
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okay
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so just turn to the person who's next to
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you and describe your home to them okay
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we've got two here two two two two two
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two
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two
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okay we have to have a three right here
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okay
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okay would you join this group rosie
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okay he's going to join you as a parent
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thank
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you and uh
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and we share all our experience and how
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many rooms how many
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three bedrooms three bedrooms
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we're sharing and the work
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was shared
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what about you
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okay
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i'm living in
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my corner city switch make sure it's
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africa
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i like my apartment because
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we are living in
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african family
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you know um
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okay you need to come back to the
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classroom
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i know some of you are very far away
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right okay what i'd like you to do is
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take just a moment now and on the piece
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of paper you have think about some of
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the words some of the special words you
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need in order to really describe your
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home so it might be words for particular
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rooms that are very important to you or
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a feeling
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a word that describes a feeling or a
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thought or the how it looks and just try
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to list some of the words that you would
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need to use in describing your house
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you've probably been using them already
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but try to capture the very special
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words so just make a list for yourself
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on your paper
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just try to write as many as you can
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just keep writing
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just words
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okay that's probably got you thinking
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i'm sure you could keep adding to that
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list what i'd like us to do now
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is you've been thinking individually and
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you've been writing your words down on
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the board we're going to make a
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collection
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of some of your words with everybody
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contributing words that you would like
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to work on remember i said we're going
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to work on pronunciation and then being
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able to take some of these words and use
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them in sentences
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right so if you'll call out your word
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i'll write it on the board and we'll
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keep going until we can fill up the
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board with words okay so anybody who
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would like to give me one of their words
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clean
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clean clean
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next one friends hence
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no no peaceful yes
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okay so peaceful
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warm i heard
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location
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location location location located
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located
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located
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okay you want location or just located
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okay
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but let's take a look at the ones that
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we have up here on the board right now
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and i want you to just take a moment and
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yourself read through
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all of the words that are on the board
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and see if there are any on there that
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you're not sure of the meaning first
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just read silently
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then if there are any questions we'll
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look at the meaning so everyone just
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read
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and just
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okay let's start now i'll just run my
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hand down and if there are any words
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that you want to make sure you
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understand the meaning of
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okay
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offense can someone describe a fence for
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us
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okay sometimes we have a fence between
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two houses
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okay
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we have a fence around the garden to
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keep the animals out
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is it always outside
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is the fence always outside yes yes yes
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how many people have a fence around
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their house
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what is it made out of
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wood
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iron sometimes
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a fence out of trees we call that a
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a hedge okay
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so a fence that's really bushes or trees
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is called a
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hedge
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okay all right
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okay other
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okay sometimes in my house the kitchen
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is the cozy room
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it's warm it's small very relaxed
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what's the most cozy room in your houses
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because it's very important usually with
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the word cozy that it has this sense of
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very small very intimate okay where
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you're very relaxed small and
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comfortable yes
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both
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okay so it's a very special word for
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that
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hey as i said we're going to work with
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these now for pronunciation
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all right and we're going to do that in
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a way that's a little bit different
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perhaps in some of the ways that you've
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worked with pronunciation
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you're going to be the ones who are
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saying the words and i'm going to be the
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one who's repeating the words
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you're in control
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okay and the first way we're going to do
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that is we're going to do it corally
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meaning you can all say the words and
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we'll start with the first word and
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we'll go down
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the list you say the word is the group
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and then i will say the word
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then you say the next word
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and i will say the word
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okay
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all right so i'm repeating after you
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okay and i'm going to go behind you
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so you're looking up here
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you're only listening to me
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okay also let me get back there first
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okay we want to read the first word
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clean
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clean
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fence
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peaceful peaceful
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warm
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comfortable
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cozy
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okay let's do the flowers first
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flowers
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quiet
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large
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now you can do it individually and if
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you would like
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to work on the pronunciation of one of
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the words up there just raise your hand
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then say the word and i'll repeat the
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word if you want to say it again
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you can say the word again and i'll
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repeat the word again if you want to say
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it again i'll say the word again i'm
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like a computer i'm going to keep saying
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the word the way i normally would say if
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you want to keep practicing with the
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computer you can
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if you want to stop the computer you
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have to stop
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okay because i'm repeating after you
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all right okay so just raise your hand
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and then begin and we'll work with quite
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a number of people okay all right here
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comfortable comfortable
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comfortable comfortable
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comfortable comfortable that's okay
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cozy
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cozy cozy cozy cozy
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fair okay
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warm
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warm warm warm
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warm warm warm warm warm
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what i'd like you to do now is write a
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sentence
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right write a sentence about your home
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try to use some of these words that
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we've been working on or perhaps you
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have another word on your paper that was
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very important to you
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but write a sentence that in some way
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describes or tells us something about
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your home and then we're going to work
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with your sentences just like we worked
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with the words okay so you get a chance
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to say the sentence
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can be short it can be long
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up to you it's your choice okay so one
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simple one one sentence
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as i said i'm going to be the computer
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in the same way except this time i'm
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going to stay up here
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and when you read your sentence i'm
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going to repeat your sentence you might
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notice there might be some differences
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between your sentence and my sentence
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if you want to repeat
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your sentence the way i said it or the
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way you said it you can again and then
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i'll repeat and go back and forth if you
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want okay
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all right so again if you want to read
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your sentence raise your hand
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okay okay right up here first my
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apartment has two huge bedrooms
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one living room and one cozy kitchen
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okay
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that's a long one for me my apartment
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has two huge bedrooms
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one a kitchen one living room a living
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room
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one cozy kitchen and one cozy kitchen
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okay let me see if i can get that all
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together my apartment has two huge
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bedrooms
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a cozy kitchen
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living room a living room and one cozy
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kitchen and a cozy kitchen okay my
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apartment has two huge bedrooms
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a living room and a cozy kitchen
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we share a small yard with neighbors
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we share a small yard with neighbors
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i'd like to take the last few minutes
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just to ask you
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how you felt
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about the lesson i want to tell you one
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more thing though for tomorrow what i'll
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be doing i'm going to collect your words
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and the sentences that you wrote and
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we'll come in and we'll work with the
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rest of those words in the rest of the
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sentences so we might not have gotten to
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your sentence but we're going to use
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that as our material for class tomorrow
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all right so make sure you give those to
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me before you leave today
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right and then just as i said the last
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couple of minutes i wanted to ask you
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how you felt about the work that we did
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today in class
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and this is a
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interesting method for learning english
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i am very comfortable
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what made you comfortable
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excuse me what made you feel comfortable
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physical
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you're not sure about yourself
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i felt also comfortable because reasons
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are i could know the purpose but now i'm
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studying
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so it was easy for me
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so knowing understanding what we were
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doing what the purpose was helped you to
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relax and to study yes
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and the past was very very very
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practical i think
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very impressive so useful yeah very
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things that you're studying
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yes i think that it's very cool because
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people can express their feelings and at
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the same time it's interesting because
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you can think and many things
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and
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for the vocabulary you can learn a lot
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because maybe i know some word but other
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people know
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other and we can share
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and in this way is is very
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very nice increase the vocabulary
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and i agree about the other the other
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opinion about the relaxed
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time
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you you don't feel pressure depression
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you feel it okay you can talk and
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express and so and sometimes people can
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express and for me
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to me it's important
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so two things that really struck you one
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a lot of the words were new but they
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came from your fellow students
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and also not feeling pressure
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allowed you to feel relaxed and to learn
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i have a question
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today we studied the vocabulary but i
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want to know where
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are we going to study grammar and how
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how you do
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so your concern is where's the grammar
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my grammar maybe makes you feel secure
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and when it's not there
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you're not so sorry you're important
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so that's a very important thing for you
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to feel secure about your learning in
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the class
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the grammar
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i learn grammar and the same time i
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talk
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i'm i share with my roommate
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i'm the method is very active and i feel
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very comfortable very sure
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so you feel kind of comfortable feeling
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that you are working on your grandma
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when you're speaking with your roommate
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speaking
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yeah listening at the same time
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that was comfortable for you yeah
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against last comment here
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i appreciate these kind
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these questions because
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it shows um the applicant way of
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teaching and i think with this we
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we learn quickly
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because
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we have practice and
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you felt that this methodology was very
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american yes and how they were used
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today
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and if you practice you keep everything
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in your mind
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so so that goes along with learning the
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language too right well thank you very
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much there is time if you have things
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that you'd like to talk to me about
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after class after we break some of you
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need to go now so thank you
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you may have noticed that the teacher
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began the lesson by telling students
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what they were going to be doing for the
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class
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the teacher does this recognizing that
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any new learning experience can be
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threatening
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when students have an idea of what will
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happen in each class they often feel
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more secure
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people learn best when they feel secure
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what came next in the lesson was the
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teachers inviting the students to first
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visualize and then to describe their
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homes
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each student was given a time limit and
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towards the end of the activity was
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reminded that they had only one minute
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left
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setting and enforcing time limits also
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enhances student security
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afterwards they listed the words they
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needed for the descriptions
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kern believed that students should be
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given an opportunity to assert
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themselves to be actively involved and
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to invest themselves in the learning
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experience
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one of the ways of allowing for this is
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for the students to have the
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responsibility for generating the
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language they list wish to learn or to
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work on
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the students next inquired about the
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meaning and practice the pronunciation
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of the words they had listed you may
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recall that the teacher stood behind the
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students as she read the words after
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them
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this is done in the belief that the
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superior knowledge and power of the
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teacher can be threatening
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if the teacher does not remain in front
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of the classroom the threat is reduced
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and the students can focus their full
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attention on the words in front of them
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when the students practice the words
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individually they chose which words they
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wish to have the teacher repeat an
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exercise termed the human computer
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the students control the computer they
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can turn the computer off anytime
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the students learn to discriminate
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to listen carefully to see if what they
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are saying matches what the teacher is
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saying
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students were next asked to use the new
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words to make their own sentences
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as the teacher repeated each student's
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sentence she corrected it
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never overtly but rather by repeating
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the sentence correctly in a
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non-threatening manner
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the last part of the lesson was devoted
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to a feedback session
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in which the students reflected in what
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they had experienced and felt during the
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lesson
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the teacher listened and showed each
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student she understood what each one was
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feeling
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in this way
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students have an opportunity to feel
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accepted as whole persons to learn about
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their own learning
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in addition to learning about the
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language
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you
