Nikolas TP2/3

On Tuesday during the CIES break week, my partner from Monday (the student from Taiwan), did not come, so I had to work with Ryan and Chris' group. I had originally planned to help my partner with some tutoring/reading and discussion things, but he came no more after Monday. Anyway, the sitting lasted almost 2 1/2 hours. We worked with Habib, a student from Ivory-Coast and a friend (also from Ivory-Coast) and Nasser from Saudi-Arabia. Ryan had already prepared a lesson based on a video biography about Marilyn Monroe. The students watched and took notes and wrote unfamiliar words. After the video, we asked them questions and explained the words. Then they watched video again. Many times, the conversation would come off topic because they would ask many questions about one new word. Then we let them read an article that went with the film (not a transcript) and they took notes. Again we explained new terms and asked questions at several points. Near the end, Soso joined the group after Katie had to go and also participated. I thought the film with related script was a good idea to apply to a class.