Guideline for Outside Activities

ESL 251.62

6 Outside activity guideline

You need to participate in 2-3 workshops (at Listening and Speaking Center) and Record 3-4 conversation in your pair group. (If you can not be available for any of workshops, please go ahead to complete 6 conversations.)   

Due dates

 1,2,3 activities are due 2/13

 4,5,6 activities are due 3/28

(1) Workshops at Listening and Speaking Center

-Need to participate in 2-3 workshops.

-After each workshop, please submit;

(1) a validation note from the leader of the workshop

(2) a summary of the workshop you participated with one paragraph of 4-5 sentences.

(2) Conversation (Role Play) in a pair group

-Each activity needs to be done in a pair group

-Make 2-3 minute long conversation with each related topic. Record it and submit the audio file with a form. One file and two duplicated forms (with each participant’s name) need to be submitted by one pair group each time.

Available topics

(1)  Role play-Identity Theft (unit2)

Choose a role play situation. (please refer to pg 33 in North Star textbook)

Possible situations are as follows;

 -filing a police report

 -getting a call from a department store about a bill

 -giving a advice to a friend about identity theft

(2)  Radio station Interview-Endurance Sports (unit3)

- Make a Radio station interview on an endurance sport. Can be similar to the one in page 40

-Please try to make it sound exciting and vivid!

(3)  Casual conversation-Activity choice on your vacation (unit5)
       -Make a conversation between two people travelling together (refer to the activity #3 on pg. 88)

 -Discuss what kind of activity choice would be interesting to each of you and try to make suggestions!

(4)  Debating conversation –Reduction of Carbon emissions (unit9)

-Discuss on “What can individuals, government, and industry do to reduce carbon emission?” (refer to # 3 activity on pg. 168)

-Try to include debating skills, such as interrupting politely strategies and holding the floor strategies. (pg. 166-167)

(5) Marriage issues (Unit5)

  -Look at the situation listed on pages 141 and pick one situation.

  -Create a conversation trying to include words or phrases in the red box on the same page

(6) Story telling (Unit6)

   - Pick an interesting story which includes role-playing. (You can make up a story or just can use a story which already exists.) Take turns to play roles in the story. Try to make the story vivid and interesting with relevant tones in your language!


Good luck and please let me know if you have any questions!