For this reflection I observed a meeting of the Conversation Club on January 27, 2021. One of the first activities was a fill-in-the-blank exercise, but I noticed that when the instructor offered students to volunteer an answer, the students didn’t seem keen to participate. However, the fill-in-the-blank exercise did a good job at promoting specific answers from the students. Because the questions were not open-ended, students were restricted to a specific range of responses that challenged them. The instructor was able to successfully get students to participate in the fill-in-the-blank exercise both by gently encouraging the group to respond voluntarily and by calling on individual students to participate. As each student provided their response, the professor used it as an opportunity to start conversations with them and encourage them to speak more in the dialogue. The next exercise involved the interactive whiteboard. The instructor displayed an image of a circle and asked students to mark their hover their cursor in a position around the circumference. Then, the instructor moved clockwise around the circle asking each student to utter a phrase in the style of “I like [X], how about you, [classmate]?” We went around the circle twice, giving students multiple occasions to come up with new questions. Students were more willing to participate in this exercise as well, as I think the circular order made their participation feel inevitable rather than optional.