conversation group routines

[Stuart Goldberg]

Never occurred to me, but I've always used an empty (translucent colored 
plastic) water pistol anyway.  I don't own any realistic looking toy guns.

eric r laursen wrote:
> Bursting into a classroom with a toy gun might not be such a good idea after Columbine and Virginia Tech.
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> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Stuart Goldberg
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> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] conversation group routines
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> It all depends on the specific material and your own imagination.  For
> instance, my second-year class is working on a unit with comparatives. 
> So the other day, I split them in pairs and challenged them to
> "perekhvastat' drug druga" (having modeled a few examples of boasts
> using comparatives, but not insisting on anything).  After about 10
> minutes of this, we listened to each student's favorite boast.  Then we
> voted for best "kvastun."
>
> My favorite activity of all time, which works very well for first year
> (clothing, adjectives, objects), is borrowed from my teacher at
> Williams, Don Singleton.  You arrange for an advanced student to burst
> into the room with a toy gun and execute a hold-up (in Russian, of
> course).  Then you change roles and play the police officer, pushing the
> students to give the most detailed possible description of the thief and
> what he took.  I once played the thief for a colleague with my then
> 2-year-old daughter in my arms.  Kaif!
>
> Regards,
> Stuart Goldberg
>
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> Nina Wieda wrote:
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>> I am posting this for a colleague who does not have a SEELANGS account:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am coordinating our university's Russian conversation group this semester,
>> and I know that it can be more interesting and engaging for the students
>> when routines (games, songs, topics for conversation / controlled
>> conversation etc.) are used by the coordinator. I would appreciate it if
>> people with experience doing such things could post a few ideas that worked
>> for them or any resources that might help. Our conversation group consists
>> primarily of first- and second-year students, so ideas specific to those
>> levels would be especially helpful.
>> Thanks very much in advance!
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