PROGRAM

6.00 - 8pm

6.00 - Hello Everyone (5 mins)

6.05 - Welcome and opening prayer and introduction -

* Distribute Bibles, Bible Book Outline, Bible Book Discussion Paper

and General Handout Booklet where necessary

6.05 - Introductory Unit - Bible based talk and discussion - (15 mins)

* Reminder of make up of whole Bible using OH chart

* Next Bible book to be discussed, place in context of whole Bible

* Display (OH) and distribute information on particular Bible book topic,

that is, Book Outline

* Use maps, charts to illustrate

- author, date/time, summary, key verse, main people,

reason for writing and so on

6.20 - Discussion Using Book Discussion Paper, same Bible book - (15 mins)

* Discussion and explanation of aspect of grammar, parts of speech,

word derivatives, roots, prefixes, suffixes and so on

* Complete worksheet section, discuss home work

6.35 - Using General Handout Booklet - (15 mins)

* turn to page ? (same Bible book)

* Group or individual reads out question for discussion

* Help with pronunciation and intonation and with any difficult words

* Look up page number in the Bible, and turn up

* Read out verse in question

* Help with pronunciation and intonation and with any difficult words

* Fill in answer in General Handout Booklet

* Complete the story, or discuss cultural issues, if desirable

6.50 - Reading Aloud Together (5 mins)

* Using a relevant, comforting or helpful verse, or set of verses,

with punctuation and intonation experiences, read aloud together

* Alternatively this time may be used for singing or music experiences

6.55 - Any visitor may read out a creative writing story (5 mins)

Time for general announcements

7.00 - Break up into small groups for one to one chat, on any subject of visitor’s

choice (60 mins)

8.00 - Thanks and Supper

Clean up and Farewell

(Help with safe journey home)

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INFORMATION

- for Visitors to fill out

First Name_____________________________

Family Name/Second Name__________________________________

Name you would like us to call you____________________________

Address__________________________________________________

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Phone Number_______________ First Language_______________

Country of Origin________________________

How did you find out about our class?__________________________

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(It is useful to have a roll to keep attendance records of all course participants.)

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THE CO-ORDINATOR - Job Description

for Learn to Read the Bible Effectively

- using “CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH with the CHRISTADELPHIANS”

- for English Second Language visitors.

The co-ordinator’s role is as follows -

1. To organise and print out all the computer programs, - lesson details, tutor

responsibilities, visitors welcoming statement, Book Outlines, Book Discussion

Paper and General Handout Booklet.

2. To make sure of the supply of Bibles, notebooks, pads and pencils as well as

copies of resource language books. Also to keep up the supply and display the

business cards.

3. To prepare the room after church on Sunday morning, and place out all the

equipment that we need.

Ensure that discussion presenters are appointed and ready.

Make sure that supper has been organised as well.

4. To welcome visitors at the door, ensure that they put on their name tags.

New visitors need to fill out an Information sheet (to file), and name tag (large

letters please). Also, they need to have an Visitors Introduction sheet about us.

Introduce them and encourage them to sit in the circle, with a friendly tutor.

Add new visitors and tutors to the roll and mark that each week.

5. To take part in the discussion that the appointed discussion leaders manage.

The role is to help with questions and remarks that keep the discussion flowing

and informal. As our visitors watch and listen they are encouraged to have the

confidence to comment as well.

6. At the end of the first hour, the co-ordinator needs to have allotted tutors to

visitors, although that is changeable when the visitors state their requests. Then

the resources are collected and each pair finds a place to sit and discuss for the

second hour.

7. The co-ordinator can take one tutoring position at this time, although, say, with 20

or so visitors it gets more difficult, that is, to manage and settle 40 people.

8. More people means a larger supper and preparation for that needs to be

co-ordinated.

9. It is sometimes difficult to get the groups back to the main centre for the farewell,

and supper, but the supper should begin as soon as possible after 8pm.

10. Our visitors can ring us during the week if they have any problems, and we often

have contact this way. They are helpful in alerting us if they are unable to come.

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TUTOR - Job Description

Thankyou for offering to become a tutor in this program -

for Learn to Read the Bible Effectively

- using “CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH with the CHRISTADELPHIANS”

- for English Second Language visitors.

When you feel informed about the class, you will be ready to be a tutor.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Get your name tag, and sit with the visitors, or someone new, during the

first hour, to help with the discussion. Take a Bible and the General Handout

Booklet from the blue box, and a Book Discussion Paper and/or Bible Book

Outline from the table.

Make sure new visitors have a name tag, and an Visitors Introduction sheet which

tells about us, and our commitment to them.

Make sure all new visitors have Russell’s phone number, 9153 5779. Business

cards are available, for the visitors, or their friends. Please hand out from the top of

the house fridge, or the foyer in the hall.

Make sure that they have filled out an Information sheet, helping them if

necessary, with their address and phone number, for the roll and the records.

Later you may exchange your own phone number if you are comfortable with that.

Please indicate the bathroom in the house, and toilets in the hall.

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FIRST HOUR

Sitting among our visitors will help “new” arrivals to Australia , (or those with

little spoken English), to be part of the Bible discussion. This informal, fun time,

group discussion, where we can all participate, by commenting, answering or

asking questions, or helping with the reading together sessions, enables all

participants to feel confident in the group, and ensures that they know that we are a

Bible based people. Remember that visitors from some countries will not have

heard of a Bible. Our visitors may have a “hidden” agenda, but we have an agenda

also, and we need to be open about that.

If visitors miss attending, and want Bible continuity, then revision about the Bible

books can occur in the tutoring time.

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SECOND HOUR

Tutoring Site

(For the second hour)

Find a comfortable space in the house, hall foyer, or hall, and set it up how you

wish. Take a tray or small white board, for a table, if one is not available. We have

six tutoring places in the house, including the kitchen area. The front main hall can

be used for at least five tutoring groups, not including the kitchen. There are two

small rooms at the back of the main back hall, suitable for tutoring, as well.

Heaters or fans are available for all areas.

Tutoring Subject

It is essential to ask any visitor what they would prefer to do in the second hour.

Advanced conversationalists may be happy to learn more about the Bible, but we

need to keep in mind our commitment to them, to help them with any subject they

wish to discuss.

1. - Most visitors will be desperate for help with writing a letter, help with an essay,

role play “asking for a job”, or making a rental request. You can ask them to

tell you their story and print it out for them, if they cannot. Tell them about

yourself. A page or two of questions and answers is a precious document for

them to take home.

- Please encourage visitors to read or tell their story to the group at the end of

the first hour. You will need to check it out and help with their pronunciation

and when they are prepared, book the date and time with the main presenter.

- Plenty of large pad paper and pens are available, as well as folders in which our

visitors may keep their General Handout Booklet, Discussion Summaries and

Book Summaries and their work sheets for revision. Please ask a co-ordinator.

- A pleasant time together may be spent just reading on verses from the

evening’s text. That can fill in the rest of a story, not dealt with in the first

hour. Fill out the story, ask them to read, you read some, and read together.

2. - Some may wish to learn more about the Bible and discussion may begin where

the group is, or a bridging discussion may be necessary in the second hour on

the level of English. You could use the General Handout Booklet or Book

Discussion Paper and/or Book Outline to revise, if the visitor is interested.

Give out the previous Book Outlines (in a folder or plastic envelope) if you

think the level of English is sufficient, and there is a Bible interest.

- Some of our visitors may have begun “Bible Basics”, and there are plenty of

our other resources available for those who wish to follow a Bible program.

Please discuss any ongoing program with the co-ordinators, for it is essential

that we work as a team, and understand each other’s needs and requirements.

The ecclesia has appointed co-ordinators of this program, so these need to be

involved in your plan, and your progress.

Our Commitment

We need to remember that our conversation must be free of doctrine or creed,

according to our Learn to Read the Bible, Code of Conduct, which we are

following with “Conversational English with the Christadelphians”.

If a doctrinal point is raised, a tutor can move on after a quick discussion.

Our advertised commitment to our visitors is “one with one”, where they may

have individual tuition. Our aim is to help them with pronunciation and intonation

and their own conversation skills. As we need to hear them talk, it is therefore not

ideal to have more than one visitor, but sometimes that cannot be avoided, if we do

not have enough tutors.

We, also, need to remember that it is best not to become attached to one visitor

only, as that may cause difficulties if we are absent.

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SPECIAL CARE

There are two categories which need special care

1. - “new” arrivals with very little English, feel insecure and alien, although

because of the free, government 510 hours they can read, probably unknowing

what they read.

- Without them feeling patronised, we can use "What is your name?", first

name, last name (or alternative words used on forms). "Where do you live",

address, and phone number. All the visitors will have learned to do that, as it

is essential when entering the country. Ensure that the Visitors Information

sheet has been filled out and handed to a co-ordinator.

- "House", "in the house", "out of the house", "where/when /how did you come”

talk about their new country, Australia, or family, relatives, etc. (We did a bit

of this with "kindred" in Genesis). Help with pronunciation and intonation

and sounds, (”v”, or “th”, or any sound which they may not be able to

manage, - tongue, teeth, lip positions). Draw pictures and label objects, draw

and print on large pad paper for them to take home in a folder. Everyone likes

to take something home.

- Several copies of “My First Word Book”, and “A Thousand Words in

English” are available for help with everyday situations. These books seem

popular with our visitors in the “one with one” chats. For example, use “In the

Kitchen” and ask questions and help with answers, printing out all the time,

and, as well, walk around our own kitchen, pointing, pronouncing, correcting

and encouraging. If you have special difficulties ask them to bring their

dictionary (or write down the request to show a family member or friend )

and work (and laugh) over that.

2. - help with young visitors, often on student visas.

These visitors will need lots of help about our culture and working conditions.

Those on education visas usually stay with approved home stay parents, and

may find employment for specific hours( noted on their visas). You may help

with advice on their own individual situations, or debates they need to prepare

for in their English classes, or help with school essays.

- Could we think of more ways to involve our own young people? Could we

invite young people to be with the tutor once a month to give a little talk on

love, praise, songs, poetry, so that we can help with the visitor’s entry into our

own young people’s group?

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MORE HELP PLEASE

In time, if you would like, ask someone else to assist you, that is, sit with you, in

the tutoring hour. That will expand the tutoring staff, and give people confidence

to help. Then we would have extras for emergencies. Please be positive in the

ecclesia about the benefits our visitors receive, and the benefits that you enjoy as

well.

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SUPPER AND FAREWELL

Some visitors may seem reluctant to stay for supper, please ensure that they are

welcomed.

Please make sure you welcome, and farewell (to the door at least), as you see

visitors leaving , at least, your own visitor. It does make all the difference for their

easy return.

Ensure name tags are returned to the board again.

Offer car lifts home, especially to individuals, or those living too far to walk, or in

wet weather. There are many helpers for lifts home.

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GENERAL

Please think of ways to bring more young people, tutors and visitors, together.

We need not be disappointed when our visitors absent themselves permanently - we

can remember that person, and that we have helped them a little along the way. All

of our visitors express gratitude for our help.

Thank you, for your help.

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VISITORS INTRODUCTION

to the Conversational English Course

(Sunday Evening: First visit to the program, introduction and context of lessons.)

WELCOME and INTRODUCTIONS to new visitor

We will ask you to fill in a Visitor Information sheet and a name tag (using large letters).

DISCUSSION of reason for this COMMUNITY OUTREACH COURSE

We want to help English Second Language speaking members of the community to learn more conversation skills.

About this PROGRAM (6 - 8pm every Sunday) -

· Open with a short prayer.

· We offer group discussion for the first hour (see Section One below).

· We have experienced and professional teachers and members who can help with English grammar, word forms, origins and usage, to help in the understanding of the language.

· The second hour involves one-with-one tuition to meet specific individual needs in conversational skills, grammar, pronunciation and intonation, (see Section Two below)

SECTION ONE

The Group Discussion uses the New King James Version of the Bible as its text.

· We use overhead slides, white boards, maps, illustrations, books, drama,

dramatic readings, paper clippings and hand out sheets to enhance the

learning and participation.

· The focus is on the literary aspects of the Bible, with no intention of teaching doctrine or creed.

· We consider this Bible to offer the highest standard of contemporary formal written English available. It will therefore serve as a useful model for vocabulary, sentence structure and formal expression.

· However, conversation about the text for the day will naturally break down into more common English, where we can help with the words and idiom used everyday within the community.

· There are 66 books in the Bible, and each week we will deal with one book in sequence.

· The General Handout Booklet, (bring and refer to each week), has an illustration on the back cover. It shows a library shelf of 66 books, and their categories.

· We began at The Old Testament, with the first book, Genesis.

· We introduce the book, discuss its general theme, its history and geographical setting. Difficult words and phrases are then targeted for discussion. Over head projection slides are used extensively here.

· Brief Bible Book Outlines are handed out on this book. These notes will, at the end of the course, make up a folder with information about each book, and can be used for revision. A Bible Book Discussion Paper helps with English literacy and conversation.

· We use the same edition of the NKJ version of the Bible, so as to use common page numbers for reference. (A gift of this NKJ Bible is presented to every visitor.)

· Each night one simple question in The General Handout Booklet is answered based on the Bible book discussed for the night (answer is in the text, or nearby context). The group may read verses together, or individually.

· A visitor may read out a prepared creative writing piece, or we may enjoy some music together, before the group discussion hour concludes.

SECTION TWO

· We then offer one hour for conversational chat, where one tutor will sit with one visitor

- on the same topic, or

- on community problems, or homework, or interests, or whatever.

- you may ask us any questions you like.

· Visitors may suggest a particular topic to discuss, and ask for a

particular tutor.

Otherwise, we generally agree on how the group will divide up.

SUPPER

We invite visitors to join us for Supper together.

· There will be a short prayer of thanks for the food.

· This is an opportunity for open informal discussion

- about food and food preparation,

- general news and conversation

- or whatever

- with tutors, or among themselves.

· We will then make sure visitors have adequate and safe transport home.

FAREWELL, and thankyou for coming.

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EXPENSES

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DATE of

ADVANCE ITEMS COST TOTAL

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REPORT FOR ECCLESIAL NEWSLETTER

1st March, 2001

It must be now said that our Conversational English program is attracting up to 10 visitors, all at different levels.

We still enjoy the group hour together, though those with poorer skills don’t enter the group discussion with enthusiasm, as the other visitors do. However their 510 free hours have taught them to read, and they like to do that, even if they have no idea what they are reading.

We have solved this time of alienation for them by placing their one to one tutor beside them, so that they can be helped into the discussion. Then their tutor can help them understand the difficult words in the sentences that they have read, with extra explanations and dramatics.

They really try hard at the individual “one with one “chat time, when the two of them find a room or space by themselves, and are so grateful and pleased about that time. We successfully advertised male tutors for male visitors on request.

We have purchased a number of large sized, large print, coloured books, 5 of “My First Word Book” (DK), which includes “My House”, “My Family”, “The Rooms in My House”, “Shopping”, “Going to the Doctor”, etc.

The second book is “One Thousand Words in English” (Osborne) We have 12 of these books. We always print out pages of questions and answers as we go along for the visitors to take home, and give them a folder to keep their pieces in. Visitors are always asked what they would like to talk about at this time, the books, or something of their choice, a letter of request, or whatever might help them.

It is a great help to us and to them if they can bring their ... /English Dictionary with them. Then if we all get stuck we can work it out together.

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