SUNDAY NIGHT ENGLISH CORNER OR FIRESIDE TIME

Every Sunday night from 6:00 to 8:30 we have an English Corner at our apartment. I made some brownies for those who came. This is Gordon going around passing them out. About 30 students from our English classes showed up. They get just a little taste of an American brownie. Some of the students bring fruit, which I forget to put out for them. Oh well, we have a fun time without eating. We usual start the evening with an American culture DVD which usually is one of our Family reunions.

We divide the groups up to 6 people in a group. The play some type of game and then the rotate to another spot every 15 minutes. This group is playing old maid in our newly painted bedroom.

In our kitchen we decorated Easter Eggs. The students had never seen a hot glue gun before. They poked the shells and blew the inside of the eggs out and then used magic markers to make them creative and beautiful.

One of the areas they go to is the puzzle room. This is in my sewing room and every week they work on a different puzzle. I finally found one type of puzzle that they really like to do. It was hard to do but they did it in 2 hours.The living puzzle
This is in the dining room where they are playing the famous American came, UNO. They love playing card games. We make sure they know that we don't play anything that could be considered as gambling.

In the computer room they usually have a conversational discussion with Jay about pronunciation of the word "usually" (an extremely difficult word) and other American English subjects. In the front room we play "I like someone who _______." This is a hard one to play, because they can't use Chinese and they have to work hard at finding the right words. But they love the get acquainted name game, "Let the Animal games begin."

It is a great English corner night. We enjoyed having them come into our home and experience a little bit of American culture and have some fun with us. Most all of them have have not had any association with anyone who is a Foreigner. It was a great Sunday night activity.

This is Andy with a flower gluled on and his drawing of alittle bird on his beautiful Easter Egg.