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Provo City Library - Provo, Utah. 12:08:34 From Desert Mulford to Everyone: Hi everyone! Provo City Library - Provo, Utah. 12:08:36 From Rajeswari Mahesh to Host and Panelists: Hello from Raji from Fort Bend County Libraries 12:09:32 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: do you have written guidelines that you share with the group? 12:09:41 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: Welcome everyone - so happy you are joining us today! 12:10:02 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: Please put any questions for Claudia in the Q&A box so they don’t get lost in the chat! 12:10:44 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: sorry 12:10:46 From Shakera Laguerre to Everyone: Hello from the Boston Public Library 12:11:06 From Julie Edwards to Magdalena Dobrev, Host and Panelists: No problem at all Maddalena! I just want to be sure we can get to it! 12:12:38 From Christine Johnson to Everyone: Will we be getting the slides? 12:12:41 From Aydin Kwan to Everyone: Our learners looove talking about food. Any time our chosen topics stall, we try to steer the learners toward food, haha. 12:13:03 From Panagiota Angelos to Everyone: Bucket list was a huge hit for us 12:14:02 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: If any of you are just starting an English Language Learning Group, you can watch Claudia’s first webinar with us freely available here: https://www.nicheacademy.com/blog/small-scale-esl-programs-for-your-library 12:14:06 From lclotildes to Everyone: We always end up talking about food, lol, regardless of whether it was the weekly topic or not@ 12:14:35 From Kelly Libengood to Everyone: We had one mention food as well :) 12:14:36 From Aydin Kwan to Everyone: We've do seasonal foods, spices from your culture, comfort foods--we once had a great discussion just about types of vinegar and tomatoes. 12:14:46 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: And yes - I will be sending the slides and the recording of this webinar later this week 12:15:23 From Aydin Kwan to Everyone: Children's games also did very well for us. 12:15:36 From lclotildes to Everyone: Local weather patterns are also fun :) We talk a lot about winter weather right now. 12:15:42 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: I will be sending out the chat transcript as well! 12:15:57 From Mara Rockliff to Everyone: Which children's games? 12:16:09 From Inger Hill to Host and Panelists: I've created the game of Jeopardy and Bingo. Jeopardy is a favorite. 12:16:21 From Inger Hill to Host and Panelists: With Jeopardy, I use more pictures than words. 12:16:25 From Aydin Kwan to Everyone: People talked about children's games from their home cultures. 12:16:33 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: Honestly, one of the best conversations we had in my group was about abortions and sex education. 12:16:34 From Kate Quinn-Feehan to Everyone: We've had a lot of success talking about festivals (even religion based ones) Everyone likes sharing what they do at specific times of year. 12:16:37 From Paula Lindsay to Everyone: My biggest dud was a Camping theme! :) People were baffled why anyone would want to sleep outdoors in a tent on purpose. None of my participants had been camping. 12:16:51 From Allison Bridgewater to Everyone: re: games, I've used Guess Who and Taboo in conversation classes, especially with shy participants 12:16:57 From Kelly Libengood to Everyone: I was just thinking about how useful it would be to have the chat suggestions, then I saw you'll send it, thank you! 12:17:01 From Inger Hill to Host and Panelists: My biggest dud was "Success vs Failure." 12:17:22 From Inger Hill to Host and Panelists: Taboo is a good one, Allison! :-) 12:18:14 From lclotildes to Everyone: We play Taboo, Pictionary, Guess Who, and Charades (suggested by the group--I wasn't going to make people act but that was what they wanted to do!). 12:18:20 From Kerisa Shorthouse to Host and Panelists: Couldn't cultural superstitions also fall into the group if you aren't careful? 12:18:51 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: was Charades in person, or virtual? 12:18:52 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: I may have to borrow that game idea. 12:18:55 From Inger Hill to Host and Panelists: Win, Lose, or Draw is a good one, too. That was a success for me. 12:19:02 From Natasha Pena to Host and Panelists: We've played Scrabble with our group and they LOVED it. 12:19:18 From Paola Sanchez to Everyone: Traveling, focusing on the many aspects of "a trip" is been a recurrent one in our group 12:19:18 From Inger Hill to Host and Panelists: Pictionary is a good one, too, Iclotides! 12:19:42 From Julie Edwards to Inger Hill, Host and Panelists: Inger- I think you’re only writing to the hosts! 12:19:56 From Mara Rockliff to Everyone: Do you make people raise their hands in person or is that only a Zoom thing? 12:20:00 From lclotildes to Everyone: In-person. Mine is a family group, too, so I try to have games that appeal to a wide range of ages. 12:20:05 From Inger Hill to Host and Panelists: Oops. Okay. Thank you for letting me know. 12:20:07 From Natasha Pena to Everyone: We've played Scrabble with our group and they absolutely LOVED it! 12:20:38 From Inger Hill to Everyone: I've created the game of Jeopardy and Bingo. Jeopardy is a favorite. With Jeopardy, I use more pictures than words. 12:20:55 From Inger Hill to Everyone: My biggest dud was "Success vs Failure." Taboo is a good one, Allison! :-) 12:21:20 From lclotildes to Everyone: Jeopardy is a good one. I might borrow that. 12:21:48 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Win, Lose, or Draw is a good one, too. That was a success for me. Pictionary is a good one, too, Iclotides! 12:21:50 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: What about doing crafting and talking about the crafting process? 12:22:09 From Terri Hirsch to Everyone: I have tried to encourage self worth. One topic was what have you done that brings you joy? 12:22:18 From Paola Sanchez to Everyone: I love the crafts idea! 12:22:46 From lclotildes to Everyone: We just came out of a bad meeting--Remembrance Day (Veterans' Day, for the American participants) came up, which was triggering for some. I regret not stepping in more. 12:23:17 From Lisa Eichholtz to Everyone: I'm starting a group in January, hope to include crafts or coloring as a way to get settled into the space. 12:23:25 From Kate Colvin to Everyone: When I "taught" conversational English for graduate students preparing to argue their thesis we played the debate game; there was a grid of topics and they rolled the dice to decide who was pro and who was against. Some of the topics were: cats are better than dogs; chocolate is the best flavor of ice cream; daylight savings time should be discontinued. Nothing very "hot". 12:24:21 From Aydin Kwan to Everyone: Whenever we have a topic that is benign for some but potentially embarrassing for others, such as housing or family, one of our experienced volunteer facilitators opens by saying, "If you ever feel uncomfortable talking about yourself, you can make something up. You can tell a story. All that matters is that you are speaking English." I've been trying to borrow that. 12:24:30 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Yes, Iclotildes, Jeopardy is always a winner with my participants. :-) 12:25:02 From Kate Colvin to Everyone: My high school students also wanted to discuss their favorite songs so they knew what they were singing. 12:25:06 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Crafts is always a good idea, in my opinion. 12:25:12 From Desert Mulford to Everyone: What about navigational discussion? Directions to landmarks, etc. 12:25:39 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: I have created guidelines and I always tell them they don't have to tell us personal stuff about themselves, they can make up everything, The only important thing is to speak English 12:25:54 From lclotildes to Everyone: Our best conversation was "Navigating Prince George". We talked about landmarks around town, major arteries, bus routes, etc. 12:25:59 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: I saw that a local conversation group had a field trip to a store. I thought that was cool. 12:26:00 From Debbie Walter to Everyone: Can you share those guidelines? 12:26:34 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: I had a very successful program, in six sessions (4 might be enough) about healthcare in the USA. They all liked it a lot, and said it was very helpful 12:27:12 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: I would like to share the guidelines. I am not sure how to share a document here 12:27:23 From Desert Mulford to Everyone: Another topic could be job discussions. Where do you work? Where have you worked? What did you do? Etc. 12:28:17 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: Magdalena you can link to a Google document - or ask people to email you if you’re willing to share your email address/ 12:28:33 From Elaine Kelly to Everyone: we just did a session last night on preparing for Canadian winters and they really enjoyed that 12:28:33 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: mdobrev@pwcgov.org 12:30:17 From Enrique Rivero to Everyone: I have them play Catchphrase: give them a card with a word on it and they have to explain the word to the group (without saying the word) until someone guesses what the word is. 12:30:40 From Enrique Rivero to Everyone: I have them watch short films on YouTube and then discuss. 12:30:54 From Mary Genovese to Everyone: Aydin, that is a very good suggestion! 12:31:31 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: I also like to show short YouTube videos that we discuss after that 12:31:51 From Terri Hirsch to Everyone: we use ELLLO conversations. This leads to good vocabulary. 12:31:51 From Patricia Hove to Host and Panelists: Love catchphrase idea! 12:31:57 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: my group wants grammar very often; I sometimes send grammar info and exercises 12:32:01 From Angela Foss to Everyone: Our group tailors to foreign workers, so often conversations about how their week went at work is a good way to open the conversation 12:32:31 From Maria Kelly to Everyone: What kind of YouTube videos do you watch? 12:32:32 From Terri Hirsch to Everyone: I use a session on Small Talk before the holidays. 12:32:41 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: thanks for the ELLLO resource 12:32:51 From Allison Bridgewater to Everyone: I have also done songs. The best one so far was "If I had a million dollars" by bare naked ladies. We listened to it, talked about vocab in the song, and chatted about what we would do if we had a million dollars 12:33:08 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: we watch according to our topic. for example short videos about holidays 12:33:31 From Kate Quinn-Feehan to Everyone: Yes we watch little 5 minute videos on our topics too! 12:34:16 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: we listened to this story once https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCt9vXozSU 12:34:50 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: it was extremely successful. we listened to one video per session. But the discussion was great 12:35:30 From Terri Hirsch to Everyone: haven't had to manage dead air. My group is so good in stepping up. 12:35:46 From Kate Quinn-Feehan to Everyone: Thanks for sharing! I like using BBC 6 minute English: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english 12:36:12 From Mara Rockliff to Everyone: Is anyone else doing in-person groups? I didn't realize this would be Zoom-oriented. 12:36:19 From lclotildes to Everyone: I do 12:36:23 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: I do as well 12:36:26 From Terri Hirsch to Everyone: We are meeting in person. 12:36:28 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: I like the song idea, Allison B. 12:36:36 From Kristin Fletcher to Everyone: We have been for about a year. 12:36:38 From Elaine Kelly to Everyone: we're in person 12:36:38 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: But I think all of this can apply to in person as well. 12:36:40 From Tiffany Thieneman to Everyone: We do in person. 12:36:41 From Taylor Coppcius to Everyone: We do both Zoom and In-Person 12:36:42 From Veronica Nargi to Everyone: I would be interested in doing both! 12:36:46 From Kate Colvin to Everyone: My book club is mostly in person but zoom is an option. 12:36:49 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: I also like the idea of playing a video and then having a discussion about it. 12:36:53 From Kate Quinn-Feehan to Everyone: We have both in-person and zoom conversations 12:36:57 From Allison Bridgewater to Everyone: we're in person, too 12:36:58 From Mara Rockliff to Everyone: Do you have hand-raising in person? 12:37:02 From Haley Casillas to Everyone: We do in person 12:37:05 From Terri Hirsch to Everyone: In person is so much better for this topic. Easier to talk in person than over a computer. 12:37:36 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: We do in person. 12:37:37 From Taylor Coppcius to Everyone: We don't currenlty, our group only has 3 or 4 attendees. If we get more people, we may implemtn that practice 12:37:41 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: I don't have people raise hands in -person, but I might start, sometimes people get excited and start having side conversations and then other people get frustrated 12:37:50 From Terri Hirsch to Everyone: I don't use hand raising. I'm trying to stress conversation.....people talk together and over each other in real life. 12:38:06 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: That's a very good point 12:38:09 From Veronica Nargi to Everyone: I used to run a language group in-person and we did sort of a small group discussion format. Could be interesting to use break-out rooms in Zoom to replicate that (if you have a large enough group) 12:38:10 From Ana Beltran to Everyone: Elizabeth- How do you handle the side convos? 12:38:12 From Cindy Martin to Host and Panelists: Newbie here (sorry!). Do you need to speak a little Spanish (or the language of most of your participants) in order to have meetings like this? 12:38:29 From Terri Hirsch to Everyone: don't like side conversations. 12:38:30 From lclotildes to Everyone: I let the conversation flow more freely in-person. I don't call on people, but I don't make them raise their hand either. We have a smallish group (4-6 adults and 2-4 kids). Sometimes I break the adults into smaller groups so everyone gets more speaking time and then I move between the groups as I sense the conversation ebbing. 12:38:58 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Veronica, I would place a bunch of questions in a basket, and let each participant draw a question of the basket to ask the group. That did well. 12:39:04 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: So I sort of let it go for about a minute - mostly because I'm happy they're excited and speaking in English while I continued the main conversation. But then I sort of just asked a new question/tried to move it along when I saw someone getting frustrated. 12:39:04 From Julie Edwards to Cindy Martin, Host and Panelists: Hi Cindy - Good question, I’d recommend asking it to the group chat. Right your message is only coming to me! 12:39:21 From Veronica Nargi to Everyone: Yes, we did that as well if people couldn't think of a topic to think of. 12:39:23 From Mike Alcock to Everyone: Does anyone offer incentives or supports for attendance? Food, childcare, make-and-take crafts, etc, that kind of thing? And what's been the experience? 12:39:29 From Veronica Nargi to Everyone: It always worked out great! 12:39:37 From lclotildes to Everyone: Snacks and children's activities have both gone over well :) 12:39:38 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: Because to be fair, it's hard to hear when there are so many different voices (at least for me) 12:39:38 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: I like the question basket idea, too. This reminds me of impromptu speaking that's in Toastmasters, a public speaking club. 12:39:39 From Terri Hirsch to Everyone: I also use smaller groups. I have 20+ in my class. They are more comfortable talking in smaller groups. I sit in the groups and listen and add if needed. 12:39:44 From Angela Foss to Everyone: As a former teacher, dead air is common in zoom meetings. I use the chat as a guide to keep the convo going. Some people are uncomfortable sharing. In person, I've not had this issue as much. 12:40:03 From Cindy Martin to Host and Panelists: Oops! Sorry!😳😊 12:40:14 From Taylor Coppcius to Everyone: We allow participants to bring their children with them. We provide colouring sheets and crayons, and parents will often grab a few books from the kids area before class 12:40:22 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Veronica, yes, it's always worked well for me, too. I feel like that technique is a winner in general. :-) 12:40:24 From Ana Beltran to Everyone: Thanks, Elizabeth! 12:40:28 From Julie Edwards to Cindy Martin, Host and Panelists: No problem! 12:40:38 From Inger Hill to Everyone: We never get through all of the questions, so there's so much left for the next time. 12:40:55 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: My group is virtual. 12:40:59 From lclotildes to Everyone: We market ours as a family program. The kids are often much more fluent in English than the adults, though, so I spend most of my time with the adults. 12:41:30 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: Ana, you're welcome! 12:41:33 From Veronica Nargi to Everyone: The only thing to be careful of with small groups (my language group used to have 20-50 attendees) is that sometimes cliques can form which is nice for socialization and finding friends, BUT can be alienating to new attendees who might feel excluded. So sometimes we would "assign" people to random tables, and then the other half of the meeting time we would let people mingle how they want. 12:42:16 From Maribel Rodriguez to Everyone: Can we have something about sharing our time with others as initial conversation guidelines or is that not appropriate for adult learners? 12:43:04 From Cindy Martin to Everyone: Newbie here (sorry!). Do you need to speak a little Spanish (or the language of most of your participants) in order to have meetings like this? 12:43:29 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: No definitely not - in my group there are at least 8 languages represented. 12:43:36 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: For virtual, someone suggested, and I found helpful is: if you send questions on a topic in advance, or if you just share your screen with 15-20 questions. Then ask a participant to ask another participant 3-4 questions, and then the first person presents the second persons answers. And everyone in the group takes turns asking and answering questions, and presenting 12:43:47 From Sierra Armstrong to Everyone: Cindy-definitely not. We have too many different languages represented! 12:43:50 From lclotildes to Everyone: Nope :) I try to learn how to say hello in the languages of my participants, just to be polite and make them feel comfortable, but after that it's all English. 12:43:51 From Kristin Fletcher to Everyone: ours are all Spanish speaking 12:43:55 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: Even if someone is very much a beginner, they can at least listen, or have help introducing themselves. 12:44:12 From Jane Ricketts to Everyone: I have a convo hog in a book group that I lead. The problem is that she literally doesn't take a breath!! 12:44:35 From Elizabeth Portelli to Everyone: I think in that case you can def interrupt 12:45:02 From Veronica Nargi to Everyone: I find that people really wanting to learn a language enough to attend a meeting are looking for immersion and would prefer not to hear their native language (because they want to learn their target language) but that's my personal experience! 12:45:06 From lclotildes to Everyone: Flash cards can be helpful if some people have very low spoken English. Also, providing the questions in print (people are often better at reading than speaking a new language). It also lets them think about their answer and feel more confident. 12:45:10 From Debbie Walter to Host and Panelists: Can we get a copy of this chat? 12:45:15 From Cindy Martin to Everyone: Great to hear about not needing to know other languages. Thank you!! 12:45:16 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: Cindy, I think, it is better if you don't speak the language of the participants. We have participants with 5-6 (or more) different native languages. We really avoid using other languages 12:45:31 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: Yes - I will be emailing the slides, chat, and recording in a few days! 12:45:46 From Mara Rockliff to Everyone: What do you all do in-person when it's a small group with widely varying levels? Like sometimes I have one guy who doesn't understand "How was your week?" along with people who can converse very fluently in English. 12:45:47 From Kristin Fletcher to Everyone: THanks, Julie!! 12:46:05 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: You’re all very welcome. And you can take a look at our upcoming webinars here: https://www.nicheacademy.com/blog 12:46:12 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: For my virtual group, though, I tell people that they need to have basic knowledge of English. We cannot take real beginners. They go to the in-person though 12:46:25 From Cassie Utter to Host and Panelists: How do deal with the most fluent in the group translating to and for the less experienced folks. It’s hard to get them back to English 12:46:56 From Julie Edwards to Cassie Utter, Host and Panelists: Cassie if this is a question for Claudia please drop it in the Q&A. Or you can send it to everyone in the chat and see what everyone has to say! 12:47:03 From Ellen Kozisek to Everyone: I don't understand the word "titrating". 12:47:05 From Esraa Mahmoud to Host and Panelists: When you send us the record and slides, can we share them with our ECG volunteers? 12:47:24 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: Yes Esraa - you are very welcome to share the slides and recording! 12:47:40 From Aydin Kwan to Everyone: We used to have an mini group for true beginners. Now, we tend to refer them to ESL classes at nearby adult schools and explain that ours is conversation practice, not a beginner class. 12:47:46 From Esraa Mahmoud to Host and Panelists: Awesome, thank you. 12:47:53 From Kelly Libengood to Everyone: It's a chemistry term: ti·trate /ˈtīˌtrāt/ Learn to pronounce verb CHEMISTRY ascertain the amount of a constituent in (a solution) by measuring the volume of a known concentration of reagent required to complete a reaction with it, typically using an indicator. "the sample is titrated at a pH near 10 with EDTA solution" MEDICINE continuously measure and adjust the balance of (a physiological function or drug dosage). "each patient received intravenous diazepam and pethidine, the doses being titrated according to the response" 12:48:06 From lclotildes to Everyone: I prepare a list of question prompts with varying vocabulary and complexity. EG: What is your favourite food? Followed by: Describe what it is like to eat your favourite food. How does it taste? Smell? Feel? This lets people respond at the level they are at. 12:48:34 From Debbie Walter to Host and Panelists: we can't link directly from chat references 12:48:36 From Ellen Kozisek to Everyone: Still don't understand titrate. That doesn't make sense in the context. :( 12:48:49 From Umadevi Ravishankar to Everyone: We have posted some questions in question and answers feature also. 12:49:05 From Julie Edwards to Debbie Walter, Host and Panelists: Hi Debbie - I’m not understanding your question about chat references. 12:49:33 From Debbie Walter to Host and Panelists: Can we get a copy of chat? When there is a link in chat, we can't copy it or link to it. 12:49:46 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: I like the book Compelling conversations : questions and quotations on timeless topics : an engaging ESL textbook for advanced students 12:49:48 From Masako Livingston to Everyone: How many native English speakers do you have in the conversation group? 12:49:48 From Kristin Fletcher to Everyone: Great presentation! 12:49:51 From Judith Wines to Everyone: I think titrate in this sense means "keep on adjusting or going back to" 12:50:06 From Esraa Mahmoud to Host and Panelists: Excellent presentation; thank you. 12:50:17 From Susan McClain to Everyone: Thank you! Excellent program. 12:50:20 From Terry Edwards to Everyone: When you say you post vocabulary in the chat, do you just post the word, or do you include the definition? 12:50:52 From Ana Beltran to Everyone: Does anyone lead an ESL book discussion group? 12:51:00 From Deirdre Lewis to Host and Panelists: Great job, Claudia! 12:51:18 From Kuniko Simon to Everyone: Thank you all 12:51:18 From Kerisa Shorthouse to Host and Panelists: Do you partner with certain organizations to find folks interested in ESL and learning English? Has marketing been difficult for anyone for groups like this? 12:51:25 From Amy Carera to Everyone: I'm a really new host with a small group - 2 people. One of them brings a translator and the other is not particularly fluent either. How do we tailor these conversations to meet their needs? 12:51:37 From Debbie Walter to Host and Panelists: Very helpful program. Thank you. 12:51:40 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Ana, I like the idea of a book discussion group. I might ask for permission to try that. We'd probably need to go for short novels in plain English. I know there are some out there. 12:51:56 From Mercedes Franks to Everyone: Ana, yes, our community does a big read each year and we read excerpts from the book. Depending on the book, it can be a little tedious. 12:51:57 From Austin Duffy to Everyone: Do you set aside time in each session for people to suggest conversation topics? 12:52:04 From Ana Beltran to Everyone: RIght, I'm working on starting one next year and would love any advice! 12:52:07 From Valarie Henrichson to Everyone: We have people register for the group, but no shows up. Any tips on getting people to come? 12:52:21 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: by Valerie, that is very hard 12:52:33 From Jennifer Razee to Host and Panelists: Most potential adult ESOL learners in my small town are migrant works, some undocumented—what would you advise to do to include these community workers in a a discussion group? 12:52:41 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: for me, the best was word of mouth 12:52:43 From Gina Fuller to Everyone: Short stories are great for ELL discussions, I recommend trying it! 12:52:47 From Kelly Libengood to Everyone: I reiterate Valarie's question, I experience that with much of my programming 12:52:50 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: but, life happens, people come and go 12:52:51 From Inger Hill to Everyone: The only advice I have is to be sure the novels are in plain English or suggestion audio books. 12:53:01 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: Ooh! I like the idea of an ESL book discussion group, as our other book discussion groups are generally very popular. 12:53:38 From lclotildes to Everyone: Try to connect with Immigrant or Cultural organizations, international student organizations, Service organizations that work with immigrants. 12:53:39 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Cleo, our book discussion are well attended. Our system has a Spanish language book discussion that's a hit! 12:53:42 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: book discussion is good, but I think you need more advanced speakers 12:53:49 From Esraa Mahmoud to Everyone: We want more and more of this presentation! 12:53:53 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: If I did an ESL book discussion group, I would probably do it as a Read and Share type group where people share what they like to read. 12:53:55 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: and don't use children's books 12:54:02 From Inga Schmidt to Host and Panelists: Any advice on how long a conversation program should be? I had been thinking of doing a 30 minute conversation but is that too short? 12:54:08 From Ana Beltran to Everyone: Thanks, everyone. :) 12:54:13 From Eleni Tsoukatos to Everyone: You mentioned that attendees often become friends outside of the group. Do you make everyone's emails visible to the group? 12:54:21 From Mercedes Franks to Everyone: I have used books geared for new Readers and then we build our story or conversation around that book. 12:54:38 From Aydin Kwan to Everyone: We do use breakout groups here and find that 5-6 people were facilitator is ideal. But I agree it can be tough when you have a mix of levels. 12:54:38 From Olympia Sosangelis to Everyone: Do you correct the participants English during the conversation? 12:54:43 From lclotildes to Everyone: Poetry works surprisingly well, because it is so vocab-based. 12:54:46 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: I don't make the emails available. They need to ask me, and I ask both participants if they are ok with me sharing 12:54:53 From Irene Dunn to Everyone: how long is your group? 12:55:17 From Inga Schmidt to Everyone: Any advice on how long a conversation program should be? I had been thinking of doing a 30 minute conversation but is that too short? 12:55:29 From Ana Beltran to Everyone: Inga, I would suggest one hour. 12:55:31 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: I do correct (my volunteer even more), but if it is something really big; not every little thing 12:55:46 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: my program is 90 minutes 12:55:53 From lclotildes to Everyone: I do 1 hour, but we only do 30 minutes of intense conversation. the first 15 are just introductions and getting settled. The last 15 minutes are for a game. 12:56:02 From Eleni Tsoukatos to Everyone: Do you keep track of the topics that have already been discussed? 12:56:03 From Tiffany Thieneman to Everyone: Our program is 1 hour. 12:56:03 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: I think Claudia’s programs are 90 minutes 12:56:03 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Yes, Inga, and hour is sufficient, in my opinion. 12:56:07 From Bridget Lyne to Everyone: What do you do for the first session? How do you deflect personal questions that students may ask you 12:56:11 From Maribel Rodriguez to Everyone: Have you ever used song lyrics as text to practice reading? 12:56:19 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: as a non-native speaker myself, I think grammar is important 12:56:32 From Gina Rosabal to Everyone: Reverso Context is a much better resource than Google Translate--it provides multiple meaning and how each is used contextually in both languages 12:56:36 From Desert Mulford to Everyone: Do you issue "homework" of any kind? Ask them to prepare certain bits or tell longer stories? 12:56:40 From Anna Mac to Everyone: Maribel, I used to use songs that students brought in my high school ESL classes and they loved analyzing those! 12:56:43 From Kelly Libengood to Everyone: My understanding is that they attend so they can improve. We want to give them a leg up in communication, so I think they appreciate that guidance. 12:57:00 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: If I did the ESL book discussion, it would probably be this format: https://vbpl.librarymarket.com/read-and-share-71 We generally have good participation for this program. 12:57:05 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: we tried homework, and it almost never work; I send materials sometimes, in advance 12:57:07 From Maribel Rodriguez to Everyone: Thank you @ Anna Mac 12:57:11 From Kate Colvin to Everyone: My book club is bilingual English/Spanish and members can read the book in whichever language they feel most comfortable reading in. Conversation shifts back and forth between the 2 languages as I have English speakers trying to improve their Spanish and Spanish speakers doing the same for English. It helps to have speakers of both because they help each other when they don't know the terms. 12:57:12 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Hi Magdalena, I agree. I like adding some type of text or writing in my sessions. This is the case, even if it's only a word or two. 12:57:35 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Wow, Kate!! What a great idea!! :-) 12:57:51 From lclotildes to Everyone: Anything that doesn't affect the meaning of what they are saying I let slide. But if they are struggling to express their meaning I help out a bit by modelling a few phrases that might help them get their meaning across. 12:58:16 From Kate Colvin to Everyone: The variety of books insures that we are always learning new vocabulary. 12:58:21 From Anna Mac to Everyone: @Maribel Rodriguez just make sure its a song people are actually familiar with/interested in. I had brought popular songs and it turned out my class was really into the Beatles instead 😄 12:58:31 From Snezana Pesakovic to Everyone: If you have a very chatty group where every participant wants to speak, and you don't separate them in groups or pair, how do you organize the conversation then...it turns into listening only or mostly? 12:58:34 From Kaia-Marie Bishop to Everyone: There are some high interest/low vocab novellas I've used for our ESL Book Club (which has been very popular--people want to read and they like getting to discuss the books like other book clubs but are able to talk about unfamiliar language like in a conversation circle) 12:59:08 From Austin Duffy to Everyone: Do you facilitate every session or do you have others (staff, volunteers) lead sessions too? 12:59:37 From Salvina Nava to Host and Panelists: Thanks everyone! Really interesting and useful! 12:59:39 From Kamshi Kanavathy to Host and Panelists: Thanks so much. This was very helpful! Have to get back to work. 12:59:46 From Joseph Alloway to Everyone: What publishers have you used for high interest/low vocab novellas? 13:00:18 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: Claudia has a BUNCH of free resources here: https://www.nicheacademy.com/blog/small-scale-esl-programs-for-your-library 13:00:19 From Margaret Girgis to Everyone: I have to go be on desk now...thank you very much; this was great! 13:00:22 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: I have a volunteer, but this year, she has been out a lot. For virtual, it is always better to have two people. There are often technical difficulties 13:00:32 From Kate Colvin to Everyone: You can use graphic novels too because they are so accessible. 13:00:37 From Lisa Knasiak to Everyone: Thank you! 13:00:40 From Irene Dunn to Everyone: Thank you! 13:00:44 From Aydin Kwan to Everyone: Our librarians rotate leading the sessions, but we have volunteers facilitators who are there every time as well. 13:00:49 From Diana Cassulis to Everyone: Thank you! 13:00:50 From Patrice Fisher to Everyone: 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 13:00:51 From Julie Edwards to Everyone: https://www.nicheacademy.com/blog/small-scale-esl-programs-for-your-library 13:00:57 From Magdalena Dobrev to Everyone: Thanks a lot 13:00:59 From Anneka Ramirez to Everyone: Thank you so much Claudia and everyone who contributed to the chat. Such great info! 13:01:01 From Chase Hanes to Everyone: Thank you so much for this amazing webinar! I learned so much. Thank you :) 13:01:04 From Bridget Lyne to Host and Panelists: How do you deflect persona; questions from the group? 13:01:06 From Immer Honorato to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:06 From Aydin Kwan to Everyone: Thank you Claudia & everyone! 13:01:06 From Sarah List to Everyone: Thank you!! This was great :) 13:01:10 From Valarie Henrichson to Everyone: This was very helpful! THank you! 13:01:13 From Mike Alcock to Everyone: Thanks! 13:01:14 From Anna Mac to Everyone: Thanks, y'all! 13:01:17 From Andrea Leiva to Everyone: such great information! thank you. 13:01:19 From Martha Olver to Everyone: thanks; so much info! 13:01:22 From Noura Zentari to Everyone: Thanks 13:01:22 From Therese Jones to Host and Panelists: Thank you. 13:01:23 From Veronica Nargi to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:23 From Heather Miller to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:23 From Inger Hill to Everyone: Thank you so much, Claudia! :-) 13:01:24 From Amy Carera to Everyone: Thanks for all the wonderful info! 13:01:24 From Esther Canedo to Host and Panelists: Thank you for all the great information! 13:01:24 From Vicky Yan to Everyone: Thank you for this webinar! I love your presentation style. 13:01:25 From Maria Ramirez to Everyone: Thank you!! This was helpful 13:01:26 From Meghan Herbel to Everyone: Thank you ! 13:01:26 From Cleo Robertson to Everyone: I'm emailing you right now 13:01:28 From Esperanza Gutierrez to Everyone: Thank you 13:01:28 From Rachel Robinson to Everyone: Thank you so very much 13:01:28 From Bryan Younts to Host and Panelists: Thank you! This was great! 13:01:31 From Elide Sanchez Rivera to Everyone: 👏🏽 13:01:31 From Chaya Satish to Host and Panelists: Thank you! This was helpful! 13:01:31 From Nazma M. Ali to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:31 From Eric Travis to Everyone: Great tips. Thank you! 13:01:32 From Emily Reynolds to Everyone: Thank you so much! 13:01:33 From Sierra Armstrong to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:34 From K David to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:34 From Austin Duffy to Everyone: This was excellent! Thank you. 13:01:36 From Sharon Wasserman to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:36 From Umadevi Ravishankar to Everyone: Do you have a structured Syllubus? 13:01:37 From Joseph Alloway to Everyone: Using graphic novels is a great idea. THanks! 13:01:38 From Wanda Forte to Everyone: Thank you Claudia. The program was very informative. 13:01:38 From Brenda Murphy to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:39 From Stephanie Singleton to Everyone: Thank you. This was great! 13:01:39 From Jane Ricketts to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:40 From Katia Pascoal to Everyone: Thank you :) 13:01:41 From Katelyn Morey to Everyone: Thank you Claudia! Great information! 13:01:43 From Andrea Leiva to Everyone: thanks everyone in the chat for sharing your helpful tips too 13:01:46 From Kimberly Bridges to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:47 From Melissa Sookram to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:47 From Doris to Everyone: Thank you 13:01:48 From Jessie Baker to Host and Panelists: Thank you so much. 13:01:48 From Akemi Royer to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:49 From Marcela Calderon to Everyone: Thank you 13:01:50 From Shom Tiwari to Host and Panelists: Thank you! 13:01:50 From Jae Down to Everyone: Thank you, this is super helpful 13:01:52 From Kaia-Marie Bishop to Everyone: I don't have a great list of publishers for hi/lo books offhand 13:01:53 From Andrea Leiva to Everyone: Thank You! 13:01:56 From Julie Hadler to Everyone: Thank you! 13:01:56 From Susan McClain to Everyone: Thanks again! 13:01:57 From Maribel Rodriguez to Everyone: Thanks 13:01:57 From Paola Sanchez to Everyone: Thanks a lot 13:01:59 From Brenda Membreno to Everyone: Thank you! 13:02:00 From Seve Orozco Jr to Everyone: Thank you for the infomation!!! 13:02:00 From Barbara Hughey Reardon to Everyone: Thank you! 13:02:00 From Diane Haberstroh to Everyone: Thank you! That was a great presentation. 13:02:01 From Wynne Langer to Everyone: 👏Great info 13:02:03 From Joseph Alloway to Everyone: Great presentation, Claudia. Thank you! 13:02:03 From Mercedes Franks to Everyone: Thank you. It was very enjiyabke,