Today the students in one of my "high intermediate" speaking and listening classes presented their paraphrases on some pages in the already paraphrased (for younger readers) Chew On This. In the other class, students in the same level but a different section presented their paraphrases of the description of campus art. I encouraged them to use the blackboard or the overhead projector. When they didn't, we were really in trouble. That is to say, most people had no idea what they were talking about, and I had an inkling just because I was familiar with the material in the paraphrase.
So here's a reminder to us all: Keep it simple. Show and tell--briefly and clearly.
And now I'm off for the third from the last of my birthday celebrations--this one with Leslie in the Mission--the Herbivore on Valencia Street.
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