In this section, you’ll find downloadable lesson plans for introducing and providing practice with using a variety of interactional strategies, with the aim of helping users improve their capability and comfort with initiating and participating in various forms of communication and accommodating a wide range of other users of GE.
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Negotiation of Meaning
Surrealist Room: Practice with Clarification Questions for Negotiating Meaning
Author(s): Kenny Harsch
Link to lesson plan: Harsch-K-Surrealist Room.docx
Overview: Describing objects and their location within a room to practice asking for clarification.
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Navigating Conversations
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Developing rapport, conviviality, and harmony
Building Conviviality Through Commenting
Author(s): Kenny Harsch
Link to lesson plan: Harsch-K-Building-Conviviality-Through-Commenting.docx
Overview: Students work in pairs, with one talking about a topic of interest and the other making comments to show understanding and conviviality.
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