Ava CO #2

 June 30, 2025

10:00-10:50am

Professor Felicia Ciappetta

Group 1 (Beginners)

Dr. Ciappetta class begin with the students interviewing me as part of the class assignment. The questions that the students ask included: name, age, gender, resident, place of birth, phone #, home & email address. During the interview the students would ask that I pronounce and spell my last name so they could get a better understanding of the pronunciation.  

The students then took turns asking questions in reference to my daily activities using pictures from the "Word-by-Word Picture Dictionary".  The Word-by-Word picture dictionary is a vocabulary book with pictures for beginners.  It helps the students understand and remember the meaning of words.  Dr. Ciappetta than ask each student to give an example of sentences using the word every day.  The students were also asked the difference between a person's first and last name.  

The last part of the class we played a game in which we went around the table and we had to recite the alphabet in alphabetical order. If a person missed a letter, we had to start the game over again.  The students really enjoyed the game and so did I.  The students were allowed to take a 5-minute break to review their vocabulary words.  The student's homework was to review their vocabulary words.

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