Goodbye Augusta Tech- Mon/Wed ESL Class

Tonight was our last meeting with our Augusta Tech group. Monday night, as usual, we had much better attendance than tonight. Monday we had representatives from Ukraine, Costa Rica, Peru, Korea, Thailand and Iran. Tonight we had the opportunity to say goodbye to only three of our "regulars." After one year at Augusta Tech we will miss the fun of sharing the English language and all of its idiosyncrasies with our new friends and of learning about some of their difficulties.


Here, we are working our way through the alphabet and selected "blends." We asked each person to give us a word that started with a letter or blend. They did really well. A few times I had to pantomime or describe the word someone had chosen that another did not grasp. It was fun - kind of like charades. On Monday night we actually did do charades. After reading and talking about activities that take place in a community, such as buying gas or going to the movies or library, we each had to act out an activity while the others guessed what it was.


After our alphabet and blending work, we read in the textbooks about describing people. Photos showed people who had different color hair and eyes. We then discussed age and height as additional ways of describing people. Sometimes, this exercise required some acting out. I think we got across the idea of how to use physical characteristics in descriptions - hopefully.