Scribes

__//** Notes **//__ __//** ﻿ **//__ Monday March 31st 2011 Scribe: Lucia

Tuesday 11:40am R403 (Tuesday 5th, no meeting because of Ching Ming festival)

Look on mentor page, discussion, for notifications.

Issue: Under privileged chinese children in Hong Kong can't speak English. Action: Our job as the Teaching English group is to teach chinese three to six year olds English= (see next paragraph)

Change goal on home page age of wiki=Our goal is to help underprivileged Chinese children (2-6 year old) learn English so that they can have better education opportunities and hopefully a better future

Lingua Franca=any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages. (The world's present Lingua Franca is English).

11:20 in the library
Scribe: Emily

Teach basic English words. Talked about changing our central idea/goal. We could teach them through English movies, like ‘Dora the Explorer’ or ‘Charlie and Lola’ or ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ or ‘Sponge Bob’.

12:00 in Rm 403 scribe: Emily Meeting with Miss Ana is 12:00am Tuesday 12nd April 2011. Notes :

Interview with the mandarin teacher Observe teaching & interview K3-K4 teachers. Ask to help teach to get experience. Jobs: Lucia- Flashcards wiki Emily- Emails/letters (literature) Marissa- Teaching English wiki

try to teach them how important English is. We will just give them a teaser Basic words is to give them the desire to become fluent more..... Action- Gave Ms. Sanchez an update on phone call with Ms. Harmony Li, H.K.S.P.C. (Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children)