Dear Mom,
I'm hosting tonight and next Friday night at Vision English Club. I get to choose the discussion topics, and I've got "Conflict Resolution" in the hopper for both Fridays.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VisionEnglishclub/
Tonight at 7:15 I'll help language learners, usually about 16-20 people, know to introduce themselves and get a feel for who's at their tables. If the tables aren't balanced, I'll do a little shuffling to make sure there isn't any table that just has 4 beginner-speakers and nobody with good speaking ability.
Not every advanced English speaker has been invited to join a group called "Vision Volunteers" but about 10 of them are recognized for their faithfulness to the English Club and their ability to use English to help their peers get practice speaking English. In the photo above we got six local Volunteers and two from Holland together for a game night. It was fun, but more than that it helped the group create a friendship bond. We're looking for ways to enlarge the group and deepen the trust/friendship they feel toward each other.
Then at 7:30 tonight I'll introduce the topic and help each table create a vocabulary list for themselves. "If I knew that the conversation topic tonight were going to be on Conflicts and Conflict Resolution, what vocabulary words would I want to have access to?" I'll give them a chance to brainstorm first, then I'll hand out a crib sheet of vocab that AI helped me generate on the topic.
https://chatgpt.com/share/6985450d-a2f0-800b-9691-ae0bd038efc9
I'll probably also give AI a chance to create an English/Vietnamese lexicon for the topic, but I haven't done that yet.
Oh, that's too funny. I just now went to the Facebook page for Vision Cafe and expanded the post about tonight. Please read it, and as you do keep in mind that I only told them I was going to open up and explore the topic of Conflict Resolution. No spilling tea or "throwing hands." Wow.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GtQzA9TQH/
But it's a good topic. They'll talk in table groups of 4-5 with various discussion prompts, then toward the end we'll have several people stand and share out to the whole group.
I find myself looking forward to tonight!
Love,
Tim/Janet